Sky Mirror

Series of sculptures by Anish Kapoor

Sky Mirror is a public sculpture by artist Anish Kapoor. Commissioned by the Nottingham Playhouse, it is installed outside the theatre in Wellington Circus, Nottingham, England. Sky Mirror is a wide concave dish of polished stainless steel weighing and angled up towards the sky. Its surface reflects the ever changing environment.

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. The open air exhibition was titled Turning the World Upside Down and it ran until 13 March 2011. It was accessible from 6 a. m. until dusk. Kapoor said that Kensington Gardens was "the best site in London for a piece of art, probably in the world". The location of Sky Mirror was previously occupied by a sculpture by Henry Moore – a work that was donated by the artist, but had been removed for conservation in 1996. Kapoor's sculptures are guarded round the clock at a cost estimated to be £120,000 paid for by the Royal Parks Agency. Sky Mirrors permanent installation is at Dallas Cowboys Art Collection at AT&T Stadium.

From 20 September to 27 October 2006, a larger version of Sky Mirror was installed at Rockefeller Center in New York City. It had a diameter, stood three stories tall, and weighed The convex side faced Fifth Avenue, the concave side the Rockefeller Center courtyard. Versions of Sky Mirror also exist in the Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia, in front of the Casino de Monte Carlo in Monaco, in the Serralves Museum in Porto, Portugal and in the De Pont Museum of Contemporary Art in Tilburg, the Netherlands.