Firm Won’t Rubber-Stamp Sculpture
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CLEVELAND — The artist who designed a giant baseball bat for Chicago and a giant clothespin for Philadelphia has created a sculpture of a rubber stamp to go in front of Standard Oil Co. headquarters, and the company’s new chairman isn’t pleased.
“We hope to find another location for it,” Robert B. Horton said last week at the company’s annual meeting. “I don’t want to destroy a work of art, but I don’t think the symbolism is appropriate.”
Sculptor Claes Oldenburg called the decision a breach of contract, but he refused to say whether he planned to sue.
“The fact is that there is no other place to put it . . . ,” he said. “It is very much like censorship. . . . It is a very arbitrary act.”
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