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This one is a good one.
Houston apparently is getting its version of 'the bean', the public art installation in Chicago's Millennium Park, and a Trib writer writes possibly the best single sentence I've ever seen written about Houston.
Unoriginal 4th place Houston gets its own bean sculpture... whatever - Chicago Tribune
Houston apparently is getting its version of 'the bean', the public art installation in Chicago's Millennium Park, and a Trib writer writes possibly the best single sentence I've ever seen written about Houston.
Unoriginal 4th place Houston gets its own bean sculpture... whatever - Chicago Tribune
Unoriginal 4th place Houston gets its own bean sculpture... whatever
Kim Janssen
Chicago Tribune
It’s no secret that Houston is coming for Chicago’s status as the nation’s third largest city.
But couldn’t it be a little bit more original about how it does it?
The Texas city’s latest attraction is a sculpture they bought titled Cloud Column, made by British sculptor Sir Anish Kapoor, who also created Chicago’s Cloud Gate.
It’s, er, in the shape of a bean, just like the Millennium Park icon. And it’s shiny and made of stainless steel.
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.