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Anish Kapoor

1954 - Today

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Sir Anish Mikhail Kapoor, (born 12 March 1954) is a British-Indian sculptor specializing in installation art and conceptual art. Born in Mumbai, Kapoor attended the elite all-boys Indian boarding school The Doon School, before moving to the UK to begin his art training at Hornsey College of Art and, later, Chelsea School of Art and Design. His notable public sculptures include Cloud Gate (2006, also known as "The Bean") in Chicago's Millennium Park; Sky Mirror, exhibited at the Rockefeller Center in New York City in 2006 and Kensington Gardens in London in 2010; Temenos, at Middlehaven, Middlesbrough; Leviathan, at the Grand Palais in Paris in 2011; and ArcelorMittal Orbit, commissioned as a permanent artwork for London's Olympic Park and completed in 2012. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Anish Kapoor has received more than 2,923,869 page views. His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). Anish Kapoor is the 121st most popular sculptor (up from 148th in 2019), the 336th most popular biography from India (up from 394th in 2019) and the most popular Indian Sculptor.

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  • 34

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.84

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.70

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Anish Kapoors by language

Over the past year Anish Kapoor has had the most page views in the with 335,770 views, followed by Italian (48,774), and French (19,123). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Korean (199.17%), Simple English (87.47%), and Italian (75.84%)

Among SCULPTORS

Among sculptors, Anish Kapoor ranks 121 out of 258. Before him are Medardo Rosso, Bartolomeo Bon, Augustin Pajou, Christian Daniel Rauch, Jules Dalou, and Richard Long. After him are Georg Rafael Donner, Daniel Buren, Adam Kraft, Bryaxis, Carl Milles, and Auguste Clésinger.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1954, Anish Kapoor ranks 138. Before him are Catherine Samba-Panza, Pushpa Kamal Dahal, David Lee Roth, Hermann Tilke, Kengo Kuma, and Giancarlo Antognoni. After him are Patty Hearst, Luis Arconada, Kim Jung-sook, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Scott Bakula, and Benoît Sokal.

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In India

Among people born in India, Anish Kapoor ranks 336 out of 1,861. Before him are Rajnath Singh (1951), Birju Maharaj (1937), Lakshmi Sahgal (1914), Shashi Kapoor (1938), Kumārila Bhaṭṭa (700), and Rakesh Sharma (1949). After him are Mulayam Singh Yadav (1939), Vikram Sarabhai (1919), Lalu Prasad Yadav (1948), Wilfred Bion (1897), Jim Corbett (1875), and Sanjay Gandhi (1946).

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Among SCULPTORS In India

Among sculptors born in India, Anish Kapoor ranks 1. After him are Hema Upadhyay (1972).

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