| Cloud Column | |
| Artist: | Anish Kapoor |
| Year: | -[1] |
| Medium: | Stainless steel sculpture |
| Metric Unit: | cm |
| Imperial Unit: | in |
| City: | Houston, Texas, U.S. |
| Coordinates: | 29.7272°N -95.3907°W |
| Mapframe: | yes |
| Mapframe-Zoom: | 13 |
Cloud Column is a monumental stainless steel 2006 sculpture by Anish Kapoor, installed outside Glassell School of Art in Houston, Texas, in 2018.[2] [3]
The sculpture was completed in England and transported to its current location, The Brown Foundation, Inc. Plaza, on March 27, 2018.[4]
Some locals have given the artwork the nickname "El Frijol".[5] In Spanish, "frijol" means "bean", which is the English nickname for Kapoor's Chicago sculpture Cloud Gate (2006).
Its dimensions are 351 × 130 × 80 in. (891.5 × 330.2 × 203.2 cm).[6] Kapoor began working on the sculpture in 1998, completing it in 2006.