'The Gates' Colors Central Park in Saffron

AP ^ | Feb 12, 9:58 AM (ET) | ELIZABETH LeSURE

[Drammach]

Crysto's big conceptual works like this one are always "transitory"..

They exist for the moment and then are gone..
Experiencing the moment is part of the art..

I will agree however, NYC needs a new, majestic symbol to represent the new century..
I propose we bulldoze the UN buildings and build something "artistic and symbolic" there..

[finnman69]

pics I took today:

[Drammach]

Great shots.. Thanks..

Especially like #8.. high up, wide shot, showing the way the path wanders through the park..

[philetus]

Thats the one I wanted, but he only had this one left.

[finnman69]

I saw the Gates (without the fabric hanging down) from the 16th floor of an office building on the SE corner of the park last week and the aerial views are very interesting as it allows you to see the paths delineated by the Gates throught the transparent canopy of the leafless trees. I imagine it's even more striking now.

[durasell]

I always buy art with gut feelings. I really have no way of judging whether it's worth the price or not..

[finnman69]

[durasell]

I bet it didn't hurt that Blue Dog is a Cajun artist.

[Vision]

Sadly, most FReepers would have destroyed Michaelangelo's "David" if they were around back then.

Embarassing.

While I consider your post embarrassing, I also see it as catty, shallow, and empty of real thought

[TypeZoNegative]

Beautiful! Now I want to go and see NYC!!!

[eastsider]

Though I was opposed to the idea, I'll admit that I thought the Gates by themselves looked neat. The way they followed the gentle curves of the walkways and snaked through the Park was actually quite beautiful, and the bare frames seemed appropriate among the bare trees.

The fabric OTOH is too opaque and overpowering for me. There's so much of it that now the installation looks like it's trying to steal the spotlight away from the beauty of its surroundings rather than showcasing and blending appropriately with it.

[kcvl]

Those are beautiful.

[dennisw]

Very nice!

[kcvl]

Beautiful.

[kcvl]

"We have no idea. We just like orange."

LOL! No kidding! How much "thought" do you think it took to come up with ORANGE MATERIAL?!

[dennisw]

Good photos... thanks. It's silly art but I'll have to admit it looks good in the wind.

[I still care]

"Did any of the leftoid glitterati press think to question how many starving children in the world could be saved with $21 million?"

Yes, and can you believe they wasted all that money on that ostentatious display when we had a war going on and a tsunami that just killed thousands of people?

Why didn't they just have a quiet little chicken sandwich lunch - it would have been so much less insensitive, and they could have invited the starving children, too.

As Anthony Weiner, who is running for mayor of NY said, "Precedent suggests that inaugural festivities should be muted -- if not canceled -- in wartime"

But then again, he was talking of the inauguration of the Republican president, not a bunch of 20 million dollar orange curtains set up for two weeks in NY.

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/01/18/MNG49AS6N51.DTL

[kcvl]

I think he is stuck on ORANGE...

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[orangelobster]

Those are good photos. I'm going to central park this week to see in person. I'm glad Bloomberg was a strong supporter of this project. Everyone in town, whether rich or poor, will enjoy it. Even the curmudgeons that don't like it will get pleasure out of endlessly complaining.

[Indiana Girl]

"He sickens me, yet I can't look away."