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…."
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?