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Currents: Anish Kapoor's New Sculpture Unveiled at 56 Leonard in Manhattan

By Pansy Schulman
Cloud Gate

At 19 feet tall and 48 feet long, New York's "mini-Bean" is about half the size of its Chicago counterpart. Photo © Iwan Baan 

Cloud Gate

In construction since early 2019, Kapoor's new sculpture suffered delays from pandemic-related work-stoppage and shipping issues as well as a rupture in its stainless steel shell. Photo © Iwan Baan

Cloud Gate
Cloud Gate
February 17, 2023

"The city can feel frenetic, fast, and hard, imposing architecture, concrete, noise. Mirrors cause us to pause, to be absorbed and pulled, in a way that disrupts time—slows it down, perhaps."

—Anish Kapoor

New Yorkers who pine for the charms of the Windy City can rejoice—artist Anish Kapoor has brought a version of his famous Cloud Gate sculpture to a Manhattan street corner. Unlike the freestanding "Bean" at the center of Chicago’s Millennium Park, this yet-untitled work is wedged into the base of Herzog & de Meuron’s 2017 residential tower on a well-trod intersection in TriBeCa. On RECORD's visit in early February, just after its unveiling, more than 40 passersby stopped over the course of an hour to admire and touch the sculpture, and take pictures of themselves in its irresistibly reflective surface. “I love how it reflects the city back to you,” said one New Yorker. “It looks like a wad of gum,” said another. 

KEYWORDS: New York City

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Pansy Schulman is a former associate editor for Architectural Record.

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