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Artist Claes Oldenburg, maker of huge urban sculptures including Chicago’s Batcolumn, dies at 93

Artist Claes Oldenburg (pictured in 2011) died Monday at the age of 93. He had been in poor health since falling and breaking his hip a month ago. (AP)

NEW YORK — Pop artist Claes Oldenburg, who turned the mundane into the monumental through his outsized sculptures of a baseball bat, a clothespin and other objects, has died at age 93.

Oldenburg died Monday morning in Manhattan, according to his daughter, Maartje Oldenburg. He had been in poor health since falling and breaking his hip a month ago.

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