''Cloud Column'' is a monumental stainless steel 2006

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Anish Kapoor Sir Anish Mikhail Kapoor (born 12 March 1954) is a British sculptor specializing in installation art and conceptual art. Born in Mumbai, Kapoor attended the elite all-boys Indian boarding school The Doon School, before moving to the United Ki ...

, installed outside Glassell School of Art in

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, in 2018. The sculpture was completed in England and transported to its current location, The Brown Foundation, Inc. Plaza, on March 27, 2018. Some locals have given the artwork the nickname "El Frijol". In Spanish, "frijol" means "bean", which is the English nickname for Kapoor's Chicago sculpture ''

Cloud Gate ''Cloud Gate'' is a public art, public sculpture by Indian-born British artist Anish Kapoor, that is the centerpiece of Grainger Plaza at Millennium Park in the Chicago Loop, Loop community area of Chicago. Constructed between 2004 and 2006, t ...

'' (2006). Its dimensions are 351 × 130 × 80 in. (891.5 × 330.2 × 203.2 cm). Kapoor began working on the sculpture in 1998, completing it in 2006.

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