Spoonbridge and Cherry

Spoonbridge and Cherry in the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden: a 52-foot spoon arching over a pond with a 1,200-pound cherry balanced on its bowl, the dome of the Basilica of Saint Mary rising behind it. Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen made it for the garden's opening in 1988. It is dessert scaled up until it becomes a bridge, which is the whole joke and still makes people grin. When the fountain is running, water sprays from the 12-foot stem and keeps the cherry glistening.