Soft and Seditious, Claes Oldenburg & Coosje van Bruggen Take Manhattan

Since November, Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen’s “Architect’s Handkerchief” (1999), a 12-foot-tall abstract handkerchief that emerges from a breast pocket, has flown from the street-level Lever House plaza at 390 Park Avenue in midtown Manhattan. The sculpture’s baroque white…