But I always wanted to do sculpture, and I was looking at Claes Oldenburg and H.
Stellenbosch's Oldenburg Vineyards, bought by equity trader Adrian Vanderspuy in 2003, are a case in point.
Written by Felix Oldenburg, who leads Ashoka in Germany and co-leads Ashoka in Europe.
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Society, Mr Oldenburg feared, was at risk of coming unstuck without these venues for spreading ideas and forming bonds.
But I wouldn't bet against Oldenburg's straight Cabernet Franc joining the fray, either.
Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen's "Soft Shuttlecock" drapes its 24-foot-long painted canvas feathers over a stone wall high overhead.
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Housing is much more of a problem in Jena, Muenster, Hamburg and Oldenburg, where less than 2% of dwellings are empty.
Dr Bodenschatz and his assistants found, however, that they could not replicate the results Dr Oldenburg and Dr Brune had achieved.
Not quite the point that Oldenburg and followers were making when the spoke about the Third Place, but a profound one nevertheless.
Shell, which supplied both them and Dr Oldenburg and Dr Brune with the wax for their experiments, has changed the formula over the years.
Mr Oldenburg's thesis was that third places were in general decline.
Mr. Oldenburg thinks of his public art as "a step into architecture" and always insisted on permanence his public art was meant to last, like a building.
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His jokes were seldom caustic or off-color, like Claes Oldenburg's or Tom Wesselman's, and never Swiftian in their misanthropy, as James Rosenquist's political murals could be.
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After touring the home, take a stroll through the sculpture garden, with works by Andy Goldsworthy and Claes Oldenburg, and two slabs of the Berlin Wall.
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As a result, the wax Dr Bodenschatz and his students were using was considerably less brittle than the one Dr Oldenburg and Dr Brune had employed.
These include pieces by important 20th-century masters: Gaston Lachaise, Constantin Brancusi, Jacques Lipchitz, Barbara Hepworth, Isamu Noguchi, Claes Oldenburg, George Rickey, Richard Serra, David Smith, Mark di Suvero.
He was close to a German named Henry Oldenburg, who, now living in London, had taken it upon himself to catalogue the latest findings of the English mathematicians.
Mr. Oldenburg, who lives in New York, spent much of his later career creating huge public art projects with his wife, curator and critic Coosje van Bruggen, who died of cancer in 2009.
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Writing just a few years after the birth of the Web, Oldenburg was lamenting the disappearance of cafes, taverns, restaurants, libraries, and other public places that were instrumental to the development of American civic life.
More and more people, especially in suburban societies such as America's, were moving only between their first and second places, making extra stops only at alienating and anonymous locations such as malls, which in Mr Oldenburg's opinion fail as third places.
Robert Morris's walk-in "Labyrinth" and 25-by-33-foot "Aluminum I-Beams Construction" and a floor piece by Carl Andre also fit handily, as does Claes Oldenburg's Brobdingnagian, brilliant-red "Knife Ship, " its motorized oars rowing and its knife blades rising and lowering at the gallery's far end.
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About 20 years ago, Ray Oldenburg, PhD, who wrote a book called The Great Good Place, argued that there are a number of attributes that make a third place a third place: It has to be convenient, inviting, serve something, and have some good regulars (which, he says, is actually more important than having a good host).
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Before the list, I have to credit Dr. Natasha Burgert, Dr. Steve Davidson, Dave deBronkart, Dr. Wen Dombrowski, Dr. Adrian Gropper, Regina Holliday, Dr. Leslie Kernisan, Dr. Rob Lamberts, Dr. Howard Luks, Katie McCurdy, Jan Oldenburg, Lygeia Ricciardi, Sherry Reynolds, Dr. Wendy Sue Swanson, Brad Tritle, Dr. Greg Weidner and Dr. Sue Woods for the culled list below.
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