11/21/2002:
Claes Oldenburg   Spoonbridge and Cherry   1988
Stainless steel and aluminum painted with polyurethane enamel
29 ft. 6 in. x 51 ft. 6 in. x 13 ft. 6 in. (9 x 15.7 x 4.1 m)
Minneapolis Sculpture Garden, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
Commissioned February 1985 by the Walker Art Center
Gift of Frederick R. Weisman in honor of his parents, William and Mary Weisman
Installed May 9, 1988    Inaugurated May 11, 1988
Selected Comments:
ha. that one really takes the cake. or maybe just the topping.
- ice queen

I LOVE Oldenburg! I studied a lot of his stuff! Yeah!
You should see the toilet one!
- bad artsy fartsy mama

Claes creates controversy with crapolic consistency
causing convoluted critics to cheer, cry, cuss with coimpregnated candor?
- Connie Sewer

This must be a bridge
That has never been crossed over
Who will be the first?

- Haikuku

It was originally commissioned for the Minnesota College of
Obstetrics and Gynecology...but they didn't "GET IT".
- Miami Mike


That would have been great in one of WOODY ALLEN'S 1970's
Futuristic Science "Friction" romp films such as SLEEPER !!!
- 7T'sSoFla

if there were ducks in that pond, there aren't any now.
- pondwrecker

Thats a damn big cherry.
- Mmmm.. Cherries

uri geller meets the cherry poppin daddies

- cherry lewis

don't bridges usually lead somewhere, not like to the
bottom of a giant bent white spoon

- spoonriver im crossin you but not in style

what did william and mary do to deserve such a gift?
- can i have some cereal with my fruit

operation iraq attack

- dubya

Sundae afternoon in the park?
- Orchestrator Of Your Demise
ART!

(25 Votes- 80% Art, 20% Porn)





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