Getty Research Institute acquires Claes Oldenburg archives

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Getty Research Institute has acquired the archives of artist Claes Oldenburg and his late wife, Coosje van Bruggen, a prominent artist and curator in her own right.
The acquisition, announced Tuesday, includes hundreds of diaries, letters, photos and other materials dating to the beginning of the 90-year-old artist’s career.
It also contains the joint archive compiled by Oldenburg and van Bruggen from 1976 until her death in 2009.
During that time the pair coll