{"id":1086717,"date":"2026-07-13T14:36:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T14:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1086717\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T14:36:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T14:36:12","slug":"its-not-my-best-work-anish-kapoor-sizes-up-his-biggest-ever-sculpture-the-art-newspaper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1086717\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;It&#8217;s not my best work&#8217;: Anish Kapoor sizes up his biggest-ever sculpture &#8211; The Art Newspaper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"pt-dp-p font-text-light font-light text-lg leading-normal tracking-wide mb-base last:mb-0\" itemprop=\"text\">The UK sculptor Anish Kapoor was in fine form in a <a class=\"transition-colors duration-default shadow-externalLink hover:text-red-1\" href=\"https:\/\/observer.co.uk\/news\/observer-walk\/article\/anish-kapoor-im-not-really-interested-in-art-with-a-message-it-gets-in-the-way\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">recent interview<\/a> in The Observer,\u00a0outlining his philosophy and opinions on a walk from the Hayward Gallery, which is hosting a major retrospective of his works, to Tate Modern where he made waves with his Marsyas\u00a0installation in 2002. Another headline-hitting Kapoor piece is ArcelorMittal Orbit in Stratford, the UK\u2019s tallest public sculpture that marked the launch of the 2012 London Olympics. So what\u2019s his view on the humongous twisty piece that also incorporates a hair-raising slide?\u00a0\u201cIt\u2019s OK. Orbit\u2019s been turned into an attraction. I guess that\u2019s fine. But, can I be straightforward and perfectly honest? It\u2019s not my best work. Its engineering is more present than I would like.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"pt-dp-p font-text-light font-light text-lg leading-normal tracking-wide mb-base last:mb-0\" itemprop=\"text\">Kapoor also has plenty to say about the state of the nation and how a new prime minister (possibly Andy Burnham) could transform the UK\u2019s culture landscape. \u201cThere was a time we had vision and the creative industries were acknowledged as second only to banking. Come on! We have to get back to that, because it speaks to our youth, to their sense of adventure and to the inventiveness of the population. Mr Burnham, make it happen! Otherwise, we will be trapped by that orange monster in Washington and his kind, and everything becomes one big golf course,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The UK sculptor Anish Kapoor was in fine form in a recent interview in The Observer,\u00a0outlining his philosophy&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1086718,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3939],"tags":[75119,4021,4020,4022,7792,77,11169,16,3106,15],"class_list":["post-1086717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-anish-kapoor","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-design","tag-diary","tag-entertainment","tag-public-sculpture","tag-uk","tag-uk-politics","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116913175779703580","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1086717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1086717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1086717\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1086718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1086717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1086717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1086717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}