Christo and Jeanne-Claude have waited 26 years to present The Gates, Project for Central Park, New York City. They tried to re-landscape the park with steel gates in 1979 but couldn't penetrate the bureaucracy. New Yorkers have long considered Central Park itself a work of art - transformed after a design contest in 1857 from a barren swampland into an idyllic urban oasis. One critic complained of the original proposal - like painting "a mustache on the Mona Lisa."
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Art Gates In Central Park
Christo and Jeanne-Claude began overseeing the installation of 7,500 "gates" on 23 miles of pedestrian walkways in this city's crown jewel, Central Park. Hundreds of workers simultaneously unfurled saffron-colored clothes from each gate. The usually bare and silvery winter park appeared injected with a stream of honey.
Christo and Jeanne-Claude have waited 26 years to present The Gates, Project for Central Park, New York City. They tried to re-landscape the park with steel gates in 1979 but couldn't penetrate the bureaucracy. New Yorkers have long considered Central Park itself a work of art - transformed after a design contest in 1857 from a barren swampland into an idyllic urban oasis. One critic complained of the original proposal - like painting "a mustache on the Mona Lisa."
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Irish Art
Christo and Jeanne-Claude have waited 26 years to present The Gates, Project for Central Park, New York City. They tried to re-landscape the park with steel gates in 1979 but couldn't penetrate the bureaucracy. New Yorkers have long considered Central Park itself a work of art - transformed after a design contest in 1857 from a barren swampland into an idyllic urban oasis. One critic complained of the original proposal - like painting "a mustache on the Mona Lisa."
For the full story - click the title
Irish Art
