. After a fun-but-somewhat-long unsubscribed lecture by a mysteriously jovial barista in a café in downtown Chicago, I was finally able to put the image of ten heavy-duty helicopters carrying "The Bean", a bit like what happened at the end of film Swordfish, from a remote arty island to its current urban location.  Detecting my hearing-is-not-always-believing kind of expression, the barista acutely assured me that this $23 million uneatable bean was born on the current site after years of construction. What a relief.

Could Gate, a sculpture by British artist Anish Kapoor, is located in the AT&A Plaza of the Millennium Park in Chicago. The sculpture, nicknamed “The Bean” by Chicagoans, is inspired by liquid mercury and is constructed with 168 stainless steel plates to form a bean-like structure with polished surface to reflect the Chicago skyline. Kapoor stated that “what I wanted to do in Millennium Park is make something that would engage the Chicago skyline…so that one will see the clouds kind of floating in, with those very tall buildings reflected in the work.”