‘It’s a second-rate bean,’ said the Chicago Tribune, ‘that’s been lying in storage because no one wanted it.’
What provoked such ire? News that Houston – the US’s steadily swelling fourth-largest city now boasts a bean-shaped Anish Kapoor sculpture similar to the Windy City’s.
It may be wounded pride: Chicago is the US’s fastest shrinking city, well on its way to fourth place.
