Wednesday, January 14, 2009
A cold day for Shuttlecocks: Artist Coosje van Bruggen is dead
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by Scott Wilson on
Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 4:30 PM
Coosje van Bruggen, who with her husband,
Claes Oldenberg, designed the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art's Shuttlecock sculptures, has died of breast cancer at age 66,
The New York Times reports.
This football-and-baseball town had a hard time adjusting to the couple's 18-foot-tall odes to badminton, which arrived in 1994, but the whimsical sculptures now seem prescient. The Shuttlecocks offer a logical, stately visual bridge between the original neoclassical Nelson-Atkins structure and the heralded
Bloch Building, the brilliant lunar-colony-looking addition that opened in 2007.
Click
here to see a chronology of the couple's projects.
Tags: Bloch Building, Coosje van Bruggen, Nelson-Atkins, Shuttlecocks
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