{"id":28746,"date":"2018-04-03T12:24:26","date_gmt":"2018-04-03T17:24:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/urbanmatter.com\/chicago\/?p=28746"},"modified":"2018-04-04T10:33:44","modified_gmt":"2018-04-04T15:33:44","slug":"houston-bean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/urbanmatter.com\/chicago\/houston-bean\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston&#8217;s New Bean Sculpture is a Total Chicago Rip-Off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Look, we get it Houston. There&#8217;s no need to feel ashamed.<\/p>\n<p>Chicago&#8217;s got the food (we&#8217;re talkin&#8217; <a href=\"https:\/\/urbanmatter.com\/chicago\/42-best-pizza-places\/\" target=\"_blank\">deep dish<\/a>, hot dogs &amp; <a href=\"https:\/\/urbanmatter.com\/chicago\/bon-appetit-restaurant-city-of-the-year\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bon App\u00e9tit&#8217;s Restaurant City of the Year<\/a>), we&#8217;ve got the entertainment (The Second City, Lollapalooza, <a href=\"https:\/\/urbanmatter.com\/chicago\/the-chicago-cubs-this-is-our-team\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Chicago Cubs<\/a>, anyone?), you already know our architecture is amazing (just look <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BglrPWNnmT4\/?taken-by=urbanmatterchicago\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BgOdi9knq7m\/?taken-by=urbanmatterchicago\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BatsisnASLw\/?taken-by=urbanmatterchicago\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>), AND our people are simply the tops (the Obamas, Chance the Rapper, Oprah, Kanye, I could go on) \u2013 so we&#8217;re really not all that surprised that you&#8217;d wanna be just like us.<\/p>\n<p>Honestly, what city wouldn&#8217;t?<\/p>\n<p>But installing a blatant rip-off of our beloved bean? Now that, we just can&#8217;t stand for.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_28749\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-28749\" style=\"width: 920px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-28749\" src=\"https:\/\/urbanmatter.com\/chicago\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/920x1240.jpg\" alt=\"Houston Bean\" width=\"920\" height=\"613\" srcset=\"https:\/\/urbanmatter.com\/chicago\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/920x1240.jpg 920w, https:\/\/urbanmatter.com\/chicago\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/920x1240-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/urbanmatter.com\/chicago\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/920x1240-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/urbanmatter.com\/chicago\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/920x1240-128x86.jpg 128w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 920px) 100vw, 920px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-28749\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Photo Credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonchronicle.com\/local\/gray-matters\/article\/houston-chicago-anish-kapoor-sculpture-war-12790756.php\" target=\"_blank\">The Houston Chronicle<\/a><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>For those of you who don&#8217;t already know, the city of Houston <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/news\/chicagoinc\/ct-met-houston-bean-0328-chicago-inc-20180327-story.html\" target=\"_blank\">installed a new sculpture<\/a> outside of the Glassell School of Art last week that looks eerily similar to Chicago&#8217;s own iconic legume. In fact, both Chi&#8217;s now famous &#8220;Cloud Gate&#8221; and H-Town&#8217;s instantly infamous knock-off &#8220;Cloud Column&#8221; were designed by British artist\u00a0Anish Kapoor, the only immediate difference between the two being that Houston&#8217;s bean stands garishly on its end (seen in all its annoying glory above).<\/p>\n<p>Now, understandably, this obvious affront to Chicago culture has started a bit of a war between the two cities, one heightened by the fact that Houston <em>seems\u00a0<\/em>to be close to toppling Chicago&#8217;s position as the third most populous city in America.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2395\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2395\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2395 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/urbanmatter.com\/chicago\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Cloud-Gate-1024x819.jpg\" alt=\"Statue in Chicago\" width=\"1024\" height=\"819\" srcset=\"https:\/\/urbanmatter.com\/chicago\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Cloud-Gate-1024x819.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/urbanmatter.com\/chicago\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Cloud-Gate-600x480.jpg 600w, https:\/\/urbanmatter.com\/chicago\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Cloud-Gate-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/urbanmatter.com\/chicago\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Cloud-Gate-700x560.jpg 700w, https:\/\/urbanmatter.com\/chicago\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Cloud-Gate-446x357.jpg 446w, https:\/\/urbanmatter.com\/chicago\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Cloud-Gate-604x483.jpg 604w, https:\/\/urbanmatter.com\/chicago\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Cloud-Gate.jpg 1170w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2395\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>The objectively better \u2013\u00a0and original \u2013 bean. <\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Most notably, the Houston fake-bean controversy has spurred a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/news\/chicagoinc\/ct-met-houston-chicago-fight-20180328-story.html\" target=\"_blank\">hilarious email-feud<\/a> between Kim Janssen of the Chicago Tribune and Lisa Gray of the Houston Chronicle in which, we can happily report, our boy Kim totally kicked ass.<\/p>\n<p>A few of our favorite Janssen offensives include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>In reference to Houston&#8217;s dumb bean:<\/strong> &#8220;It\u2019s a leftover bean, a second-rate bean that\u2019s been lying around in storage for the better part of 20 years, because nobody else wanted it. Nobody except Houston wants a leftover, second-rate bean.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Noting Houston&#8217;s historical, yet unsightly, sprawl:\u00a0<\/strong>&#8220;If I wanted to live in a suburb, I\u2019d move to Oak Park.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><strong>And, finally:<\/strong> &#8220;But your bean &#8230; your bean is wack.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And wack it really, truly is.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Featured Image Credit: <a href=\"http:\/\/houston.culturemap.com\/news\/city-life\/4-2-2018-ken-hoffman-houston-chicago-tribune-bean-cloud\/\" target=\"_blank\">Culture Mapped Houston<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Find what really matters in Chicago with the UrbanMatter app!<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">To download or see reviews from our users, head <span style=\"color: #00ccff;\"><a style=\"color: #00ccff;\" href=\"https:\/\/urbanmatter.com\/app\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a><\/span>.<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Look, we get it Houston. 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Chicago&#8217;s got the food (we&#8217;re talkin&#8217; deep dish, hot dogs &amp; Bon App\u00e9tit&#8217;s Restaurant City of the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2008,"featured_media":28748,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,23],"tags":[4574,200,4573,4568,1667,4571,4575,3271,4569,4570,275,4572,4576,961,1854,4577],"class_list":["post-28746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-category-popular","category-category-arts-culture","tag-anish-kapoor","tag-art","tag-art-museum","tag-bean","tag-chicago-art","tag-chicago-bean","tag-cloud-column","tag-cloud-gate","tag-houston","tag-houston-bean","tag-millennium-park","tag-modern-art","tag-our-bean-is-better","tag-public-art","tag-the-bean","tag-your-bean-is-whack"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v21.4 (Yoast SEO v26.8) - 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