Kansas City, Missouri - World's Largest Shuttlecocks
- Address:
- 4525 Oak Street, Kansas City, MO
- Directions:
- Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, I-70 to I-670. I-670 exit 2Q (McGee St.). Head south on Main St. almost four miles. Left onto Brush Creek Blvd, then quick left onto Oak St. The Shuttlecocks are widely spaced across the Museum grounds.
- Phone:
- 816-561-4000
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Kansas City, Missouri - World's Largest Shuttlecocks I have to take exception with the assertion that "Shuttlecocks" is in "bad taste" and that critics hate them. ART critics love them. People with narrow, mistaken, ideas about what makes art hate them.
Pop art isn't for everyone. At the least, "Shuttlecocks" is very important work by Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen, arguably the most important Pop Art sculptors in the world. [Hugh Williams, 09/02/2005][RA: April 2006 - Photo added.]
Kansas City, Missouri - World's Largest Shuttlecocks The Nelson-Atkins Museum has balls, er, birdies for this one. In a very
daring move, they installed a number of monstrous badminton shuttlecocks on
the museum grounds. Each "birdie" is eighteen feet tall and weighs two and a
half tons. Critics hate them saying they are in bad taste. Bad taste, the
perfect ingredient for a roadside attraction! [Frank Brusca, 06/10/2002]
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