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The Secret Life of Civic Space: Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen

The Secret Life of Civic Space: Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen

As MIMA celebrates the iconic sculpture 'Bottle of Notes', we look at the artist duo's anarchic approach to 'anti-monuments'...

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Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen, sketch for Bottle of Notes (1993). Courtesy of MIMA.

The centre of a post-industrial town in north east England isn’t the first place you’d expect to find a work by two international icons of public installation art, but Bottle of Notes - a giant steel bottle created by Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen - has …

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