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Discover why kids love “The Bean” in Chicago — and how to explain it with fun facts, tips and answers to curious questions. “Curious Chicago Kids” is a new Chicago Parent series that helps families ...

It’s a lucky coincidence that Chicago’s Cloud Gate arrived around the same time as the selfie. In addition to being the kind of recognizable landmark made for Instagram travelogues, the 66-foot-long, ...

Chicago’s most famous metallic legume is back on display this week after months of maintenance work. In celebration of its return and Millennium Park’s upcoming 20th anniversary, here’s everything you ...

Key Highlight: Snapping a photo of your reflection in The Bean is a quintessential Chicago souvenir. What is Cloud Gate? Cloud Gate is a large, stainless steel, bean-shaped sculpture in Millennium ...

A fringe group insists—without evidence—that a man has been living inside the city’s beloved “Cloud Gate” for two decades, and says it’s no joke or performance art. Anish Kapoor, Cloud Gate (2006).

Cloud Gate, also known as "The Bean", is a reputed public sculpture located in Millennium Park of Chicago, Illinois. Designed by artist Anish Kapoor, Cloud Gate was established in 2006 and has since ...

When Millennium Park opened in 2004, the iron welds of Cloud Gate were already in sight, but it wasn’t until May 15, 2006 — 13 years ago Wednesday — that the reflective sculpture, known to most as The ...

This is Kapoor’s first public work in the United States, and it represents a stunning debut, rivaling Gehry’s Pritzker Pavilion as Millennium Park’s aesthetic centerpiece. What could have seemed slick ...

Renowned artist Anish Kapoor has expressed outrage about the appearance of a sculpture in China that appears identical to his “Cloud Gate” in Chicago. Representatives of the British-Indian sculptor ...