US Pop artist Claes Oldenburg, maker of huge urban sculptures, dies


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The site-specific installation 'Spoonbridge And Cherry' by Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen seen at the Minneapolis city's Sculpture Garden near the Walker Art Center. Photo: Handout

Pop artist Claes Oldenburg, who turned the mundane into the monumental through his outsized sculptures of a baseball bat, a clothespin and other objects, has died at age 93.

Oldenburg died on July 18 in Manhattan, according to his daughter, Maartje Oldenburg. He had been in poor health since falling and breaking his hip a month ago.

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