Here are the original Gates in Central Park. Made for $20 million, they still look like shower curtains or train window curtains and as many times as the artists say they're saffron, they're still orange. They have however provided a nice bonding experience for New Yorkers for which I'm grateful:
And here are the other Gates, biaaatch! Made for $3.50 here's the Somerville Gates story.
Click on the little gates for more little gates:
Where do you stand on the Gates??
by the looks of things, I stand between the gates -- with Tom. I never really knew how I looked from behind, shoulders hunched from the COLD!
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Posted by: SB at February 22, 2005 5:30 PMThank you so much for having some information on "The Gates" exhibit. Not that I'd have ever made it to see them in person, but I liked your version of "Gates around the Apartment" better. Funnier at least. As funny as the 3-ft tall Stonehenge in Spinal Tap. Rock on girlie. Keep me laughin'!!
Posted by: Mac at February 22, 2005 10:19 PMSeeing how the artists appear to be paying for the installation themselves (Hey,buddy, can you spare $21M?), I have no issue with the piece(s)! A tad bit... over-reaching... in its scope (7,500!?!), but that's NYC (as well as Christo and Jeanne-Claude) anyway!
I DO think the Gates are (well - were) provocative (and worthy of noting) but unlike Christo, I think there should be discussion about the piece(s) because the project is very much more than "not involving talk". In particular, I'm confused why the Gates would only be a temporary installation - the artists previous (temporary) pieces aside. In their own words, Christo and Jeanne-Claude state:
"[The Gates] short life-spans [create] a preciousness and an urgency, encouraging us to bear witness and drink in the art as much as we can, while we can, all the while knowing it may well be gone the next time we visit the site -- in this case Central Park."
Personally, I'm thankful that creators such as Praxiteles of Athens, Michelangelo Buonarroti, and Gutzon Borglum failed to sense such urgency with their respective works. At the end of the day, I scent a whiff of "sensible" marketing (possibly even a manifestation of the Capitalist system, dare I say) here.
Life imitating art or art imitating life? Perhaps, a little of both (as is typically the case).
Posted by: |mr|Darcy at February 22, 2005 10:59 PMAs a native New Yorker (with a brief stint in Cally) I'm thoroughly unimpressed. They look kinda goofy in the snow, though, like some Benny-Hillish accident waiting to happen.
Posted by: Agulator at February 25, 2005 1:19 PM
