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Anish Kapoor

The British-Indian sculptor behind public installations like Chicago’s Cloud Gate talks personal history, political art and the darkest material in the world

You won the 2017 Genesis Prize, awarded to renowned Jewish individuals. Why did you recently donate the $1 million prize to refugee causes? My father’s family was forced to leave Lahore for Delhi during the 1947 partition of India. My mother’s family were Baghdadi Jews, and they fled Iraq in 1924. Migration is part of my history. But look, in the face

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