Soft and Seditious, Claes Oldenburg & Coosje van Bruggen Take Manhattan
Since November, “Architect’s Handkerchief” (1999), Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen’s 12-foot-tall abstract hankie sprouting from a breast pocket has waved from the street-level plaza of Lever House, at 390 Park Avenue in Midtown Manhattan. The sculpture’s baroque white folds evoke the creamy marble of a Bernini, voluptuous even as …