Best known for creating Chicago’s polished-steel Cloud Gate, or as it’s better known, “The Bean,” Anish Kapoor began his career working in a very different medium—colorful powdered pigment. A new exhibition at the Jewish Museum now spotlights 55 of these rarely seen sculptures and drawings from the 1970s and 80s. Kapoor grew up in a Hindu-Jewish household in Mumbai before moving briefly to a kibbutz in Israel, and then to London. In a recent interview with The New York Times, he explained how important the concept of makom—the Hebrew word for both “place” and “God”—is to his work. “This association of place and the infinite—meaning the here and the not here—these concepts are essential to what I feel I’ve been engaging with as an artist.” —Paulina Prosnitz