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‘A second-rate bean’: Houston’s new bean sculpture scorned in Chicago
Anish Kapoor’s “Cloud Gate” sculpture sits in Millennium Park in the city of Chicago. (Videoblocks)
The war of the beans started when some northern out-of-towner called Houston, which prides itself in its eclectic arts scene and cuisine, a “cultureless abyss” — a surefire way to invite a hailstorm of hate mail from Houstonians.
The bean at issue — the new bean in Houston — arrived in the city’s Museum District on Monday, lowered onto a new plaza near the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston with the help of a giant crane and an army of construction workers. The sculpture, called “Cloud Column” by Anish Kapoor, is shaped less like a bean, really, and more like an elongated egg, reminiscent of the alien spaceship from the movie “Arrival.”
But, with its stainless steel round shape, it’s also strikingly similar to the other, more famous bean, the one that is The Bean: Chicago’s picturesque epicenter where tourists flock for selfies in Millennium Park, formally titled “Cloud Gate.”
‘A second-rate bean’: Houston’s new bean sculpture scorned in Chicago
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Houston lame as fukk tryin to bite Chicago's bean...
...what kinda city fighting to "try" to be world class does that?
“If being surrounded by a cultureless abyss insufficiently communicates to confused tourists that they are in Houston, the bean’s verticality will therefore act as an additional reminder of their poor life choices.”
“It’s a leftover bean, a second-rate bean that’s been lying around in storage for the better part of 20 years, because nobody else wanted it,” Janssen responded. “Nobody except Houston wants a leftover, second-rate bean.”
Jesus, that ether.
