A sea gull sits atop the "Cloud Gate", a gleaming 66-foot-long, 33-foot-high stainless steel sculpture by Anish Kapoor, nicknamed "The Bean" at Chicago’s Millennium Park.
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Update:
For those unfamiliar with "The Bean", here’s a snip from the official Millennium Park description:
"Cloud Gate is British artist Anish Kapoor’s first public outdoor
work installed in the United States. The 110-ton elliptical sculpture
is forged of a seamless series of highly polished stainless steel
plates, which reflect the city’s famous skyline and the clouds above. A
12-foot-high arch provides a "gate" to the concave chamber beneath the
sculpture, inviting visitors to touch its mirror-like surface and see
their image reflected back from a variety of perspectives…." More at their site.
Cool, never seen that before.