{"id":135674,"date":"2025-11-12T11:57:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T11:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/135674\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T11:57:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T11:57:10","slug":"anish-kapoor-may-sue-after-us-border-agents-pose-by-sculpture-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/135674\/","title":{"rendered":"Anish Kapoor may sue after US border agents pose by sculpture \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

The artist Anish Kapoor is considering taking legal action after border patrol agents posed for a photo in front of his Cloud Gate sculpture in Chicago<\/a>, saying the scene represented \u201cfascist America\u201d.<\/p>\n

The Indian-born artist said he was sent the image by a friend who lives in the US city on Tuesday morning in a conversation about his show at the Southbank Centre\u2019s Hayward Gallery, which will open next year.<\/p>\n

\u201cAbducting street vendors, breaking doors, pulling people from cars, using teargas on residential streets,\u201d he said about the agents, who were reportedly celebrating after \u201cmilitary style\u201d immigration enforcement raids. \u201cI mean, this is fascist America and just beyond belief.\u201d<\/p>\n

There have been reports that more than 1,000 people have been arrested by the federal agents since the crackdown began in September. When asked if he was considering legal options, Kapoor said: \u201cOf course, I\u2019m going to do everything I can.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kapoor took legal action against the National Rifle Association (NRA) after they used an image of Cloud Gate, which was installed in 2006 and is known locally as \u201cthe Bean\u201d, in an advert.<\/p>\n

He settled out of court with the NRA in 2018. \u201cIt\u2019s a bit more complicated with this,\u201d Kapoor said of the more recent incident, \u201cbecause they\u2019re a full, if you like, national army unit.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kapoor recently opened a show focusing on his early works at the Jewish Museum in New York (his mother was an Iraqi Jew). The Southbank show, which will take up the entirety of the Hayward Gallery and feature around 40 works, is a different beast.<\/p>\n

Opening on 16 June 2026 and running until 18 October, visitors will be confronted by Kapoor\u2019s usual mix of large-scale, colossal works that use vibrant pigment and Vantablack, the most intense black paint in existence. <\/p>\n

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\"CloudCloud Gate is a public sculpture in Chicago, also commonly know as ‘The Bean’. Photograph: Getty Images <\/p>\n

At the Hayward, he will unveil two new pieces: the first is an inflated PVC membrane.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs you enter the show, there is a very big object occupying the whole of that first gallery,\u201d he said. \u201cIt, if you like, bulges and fills that whole space, pushing the viewer right to the side.\u201d<\/p>\n

The second is described by the Southbank Centre as \u201ca dark mountainous threshold\u201d that looms down \u201camid a sprawling red landscape\u201d contained within the upper gallery.<\/p>\n

He said: \u201cWhat it does, I hope, is to evoke in the viewer a sense of \u2018what is this?\u2019; \u2018Is it art?\u2019; \u2018Why am I here with this?\u2019 I think these are very important questions, because what they do is unleash emotion.\u201d<\/p>\n

The exhibition will also feature Kapoor\u2019s 2022 work, Mount Moriah at the Gate of the Ghetto, a huge swirl of black and red that descends from the ceiling. There are a few works from the 1990s and 2010s but much of the show comes from his output over the last five years. <\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think the Hayward is a place for retrospectives,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s a place that invites daring proposals and I\u2019m jumping in with both feet.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"AnishAnish Kapoor: ‘I mean, this is fascist America and just beyond belief.’ Photograph: Adam Berry\/ Getty Images <\/p>\n

Curated by the Hayward\u2019s outgoing artistic director Ralph Rugoff, the exhibition is a full-circle moment for Kapoor, who had his first major survey in a public gallery at the Southbank Centre in 1998.<\/p>\n

Kapoor, who was born in Mumbai and won the Turner prize in 1991, will be one of the standout elements in the Southbank Centre\u2019s 75th anniversary celebrations.<\/p>\n

In September, the Southbank Centre announced that Danny Boyle\u2019s You Are Here will see thousands of participants take over the site in a celebration of the role the institution \u201chas played in supporting youth culture since its inception\u201d.<\/p>\n

Celebrations will start in May to mark the 75th anniversary of the Festival of Britain, with leaders of the institution hoping it will \u201cgalvanise\u201d the country in the same way the original celebration did in 1951.<\/p>\n

Kapoor said: \u201cSeventy-five years is a long time in which a hell of a lot has changed. Of course, the postwar optimism is gone, but perhaps we can galvanise another optimism. A Britain that is made of all kinds of people, from all kinds of places coming together with this strange positive sense of what it means to speak of ourselves as British.\u201d – The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The artist Anish Kapoor is considering taking legal action after border patrol agents posed for a photo in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135675,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[969,42,43,40,38,41,39,90],"class_list":{"0":"post-135674","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-donald-trump","9":"tag-headlines","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-top-news","12":"tag-top-stories","13":"tag-topnews","14":"tag-topstories","15":"tag-us"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135674\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}