Sky Mirror
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Sky Mirror is a piece of public art commissioned by the Nottingham Playhouse from artist Anish Kapoor that stands outside the theatre in Wellington Circus, Nottingham.
It took six years from the initial idea for a major new piece of public art to the unveiling of Sky Mirror on 27 April 2001, and cost £900,000.[citation needed] At the time, it was the most expensive piece of civic art funded by the National Lottery.[citation needed]
The artwork itself, which was manufactured in Finland, is a six-metre wide concave dish of polished stainless steel weighing ten tonnes and angled up towards the sky. It reflects the ever changing environment, season to season, day and night.
In the Fall of 2006 (Sept. 19-Oct. 27), Sky Mirror was unveiled at Rockefeller Center in New York City. The installation was a larger version of the Nottingham sculpture. It had a 35-foot-diameter (10.6 metres), stood three stories tall, and weighed 23 tons.[citation needed] The convex side faced Fifth Avenue, the concave side the Rockefeller Center courtyard. The sculpture reflected and inverted the Center's skyscrapers, thus, in the words of the artist, bringing "the sky down to the ground".[citation needed]
In autumn 2007 the Nottingham Playhouse Sky Mirror was voted Pride of Place in a poll to find Nottingham's favourite landmark.[citation needed]
