Christo’s “The Gates:” Take Two

by | February 25, 2005 | About the Site, Articles | 1 comment

I put an on-line "photo album" up about "The Gates" installation
in Central Park.  Check it out.

You still have today, Saturday, and Sunday to experience them
in person:

  • preposterous, insane, magical, joyous—brings out the
    child in every visitor (even the cops)
  • human-scale and monumental-scale at the same time
  • would not work with fewer Gates, would not work in a different
    color—whatever else one thinks about Christo & Jeanne Claude,
    they got this precisely right
  • evanescent:  Hard to believe they actually appeared,
    and harder to believe they’ll be gone shortly.

"Once upon a time, ‘The Gates’ were in Central Park…."

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1 Comment

  1. Malcolm Ryder
    Malcolm Ryder on February 27, 2005 at 10:52 pm

    Ceremony: A formal act or set of acts performed as prescribed by ritual or custom. [Middle English “ceremonie”, from Latin “caerimnia”, religious rite.] — The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
    That just about says it all, doesn’t it?

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