Spoonbridge and Cherry by Claes Oldenberg and Coosje van Bruggen

Time to start revving up for the CDPB Theme Day. This is the famous Spoonbridge and Cherry in the Walker Art Center Sculpture Garden. This 700-pound utensil was plunked down on the edge of our metropolis in 1998, a gift of Frederick R. Weisman in honor of his parents, William and Mary Weisman. I just discovered that Weisman gave this sculpture to the city and I’m now looking into the history of the Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum on the U of M campus. I never realized the relationship before.

As Peter Gabriel said, “all of the buildings, all of those cars were once just a dream in somebody’s head.” It’s interesting to discover that the same person is in-part responsible for two of Minneapolis’s biggest art landmarks.