Minneapolis Sculpture Garden

The minneapolis sculpture garden has some awesome jems of artists hiding in the lawn of this out door museum. The garden is known for the Large Spoon with a cherry on top built by Claes Oldenburg and his wife, Coosje van Bruggen and people come here just to see it! Including the TB meetup... that's pretty much all we did. They also created the Batcolumn in Chicago.

Some history on the spoon is that it's a playful reference to the Garden's formal geometry, which reminded Coosje van Bruggen of Versailles and the exaggerated dining etiquette Louis XIV imposed there.

I was happy though that we went into the sun house which housed a large 22 foot fish made out of glass with a garden around it. It is built by Frank Gehry who is a famous architect known for his design of the New Guggenheim in Bilbao, Spain and also as a designer of jewelry at Tiffany & Co. He designed this fish because it reminded him of when he was young and would go to his grandmothers house. They would go to the Jewish market on thursday mornings and she would buy a carp to make gefilte fish and would put it into the bathtub before she'd kill it. Gehry would watch it as it would swim around and he would play with it as he watched it twist and turn.