World-famous sculptor Anish Kapoor has warned Donald Trump’s “fascist” federal immigration agents to stop using his famous Chicago ‘Bean’ sculpture as a propaganda tool—describing their photo-op in front of it as “abhorrent.”
The 71-year-old British-Indian artist told the Daily Beast he had been “deeply horrified and saddened” to see a large group of Border Patrol agents—including their lead commander Gregory Bovino—assembling in Millennium Park for a staged shoot in front of his Cloud Gate, the popular attraction known colloquially as ‘The Bean.’
“The Bean and the whole of Millennium Park is a site of community, both for residents of Chicago, and all those hundreds of thousands of people who visit every year,” he said.
“It draws people from different cultures, from different background

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