The visual artist Claes Oldenburg, one of the most playful forces in Pop Art, has died at age 93. His death Monday was confirmed to NPR in a statement from Paula Cooper, whose gallery represented him.

Swedish American sculptor Claes Oldenburg works in his studio in 1969. His art has a strong presence in Los Angeles, thanks in part to his friendship with architect Frank Gehry.

Over and over, Oldenburg made Pop sculptures that had art lurking inside. Art is the ghost lurking in L.A.’s global pop culture machine, and Oldenburg cut it loose. More to Read .

The Museum of Modern Art held a second retrospective of Oldenburg’s work in 2013, while the Whitney staged one in 2009, cementing the artist’s status as a Pop art heavyweight ranking alongside ...

The visual artist Claes Oldenburg, one of the most playful forces in Pop Art, has died at age 93. His death Monday was confirmed to NPR in a statement from Paula Cooper, whose gallery represented him.

In “Claes Oldenburg: Object into Monument,” the catalogue of a 1973 exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago, Mr. Oldenburg described the ideas behind the scissors.

But it wasn’t Pop Art, Oldenburg stressed. “The thinking around it and the emotions go beyond that. It wasn’t an attempt to make comments on consumerism or capitalism or whatever.

The visual artist Claes Oldenburg, one of the most playful forces in Pop Art, has died at age 93. His death Monday was confirmed to NPR in a statement from Paula Cooper, whose gallery represented him.

The visual artist Claes Oldenburg, one of the most playful forces in Pop Art, has died at age 93. His death Monday was confirmed to NPR in a statement from Paula Cooper, whose gallery represented ...