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A Case of the Human Condition: Hanging Out in the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden

October 16, 2009 By Barbara Falconer Newhall

Peter and I walked over to the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden. Claes Oldenburg’s “Spoonbridge and Cherry” is a kick, but I gravitated to Jenny Holzer’s witty “Selections From the Living Series.”

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