Installation of 'Soft Toilet' by Claes Oldenburg: Behind the Scenes | Sixties Surreal

"I am for an art that is political-erotical-mystical, that does something other than sit on its ass in a museum.” — Claes Oldenburg in his 1961 manifesto "I Am For..." His Soft Toilet, 1966, takes that directive literally, mutating a rigid porcelain fixture of everyday life into a drooping, hand-sewn vinyl form. Experience this work among others by Yayoi Kusama, Andy Warhol, Ed Ruscha, and more in Sixties Surreal.