Cloud Column
Sculpture by Anish Kapoor in Houston, Texas, U.S.
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Cloud Column is a monumental stainless steel 2006 sculpture by Anish Kapoor, installed outside Glassell School of Art in Houston, Texas, in 2018.[2][3]
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| Artist | Anish Kapoor |
| Year | 1998-2006[1] |
| Medium | Stainless steel sculpture |
| Location | Houston, Texas, U.S. |
| 29.7272°N 95.3907°W | |
The sculpture was completed in England and transported to its current location, The Brown Foundation, Inc. Plaza, on March 27, 2018.[4]
Some locals have given the artwork the nickname "El Frijol".[5] In Spanish, "frijol" means "bean", which is the English nickname for Kapoor's Chicago sculpture Cloud Gate (2006).
Its dimensions are 351 × 130 × 80 in. (891.5 × 330.2 × 203.2 cm).[6] Kapoor began working on the sculpture in 1998, completing it in 2006.
See also
- Cloud Gate (2006), made by the same artist
- List of public art in Houston
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