How Claes Oldenburg's 'Soft Toilet' embodies the Surreal Sixties | Scott Rothkopf on Sixties Surreal
Jan 8, 2026
"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 a 1961 manifesto Director and exhibition curator Scott Rothkopf talks to us about how Oldenburg transforms this everyday object into an artwork that appears to be melting before our eyes. Sixties Surreal is on view only through January 19th—don't miss it!