Cristo's Gates in Central Park

We are unable to go to NYC until Sunday, Feb.27,2005. Does anyone know if Cristo%26#39;s display will still be up? Called the visitor center %26amp; they were not absolutely sure when the display will be taken down (probably Monday 2/28/05).

Cristo's Gates in Central Park

Cristo and Jean Claude%26#39;s site says 16 days. Check it out:

http://www.christojeanneclaude.net/tg.html

Cristo's Gates in Central Park

Happily, this eyesore is scheduled to be taken down on the 28th of February.

Hi everyone!

Central Park website (www.centralparknyc.org) says ';on view for 16 days - Feb 12 to Feb 27';.

So, Ruff, seems like you won%26#39;t be going to the $250 brunch for Christ and Jean-Claude at the NY Athletic club next Saturday then! Think we might give it a miss too!

Oh, Ruff, I was hoping to meet you there! I admit to being a convert. I was set against the installation, but have seen the (saffron) light. I%26#39;ll be there most of the day tomorrow, and plan to walk to work most of the next couple of weeks, from the UES to Rock Ctr, through the gates.

Bettina, can I offer you a can of spray paint?

I%26#39;m glad I%26#39;m not the only one. I had to edit my previous post before I posted it because I came off very critical -- not of the piece of ';art,'; but of the laughable ';artists.'; When Tony Perkins asked the old guy why he did it, his loudmouthed wife piped in and said something like, %26#39;You would not ask Rembrandt why he painted.%26#39; Put yourself on a pedestal, why don%26#39;t you?

Thanks to all of you for info on the ';Gates';. I am sorry that some of you are not too happy about them, however, it is just for a short time---and how joyous %26amp; fun they are for some of us. Thanks again.

Written by Andrea Peyser, Columnist of the Year in the NY Post of Monday, 14, Feb.

';Wake me when these hideous things are gone.

It%26#39;s time to let the truth be known. %26#39;The Gates%26#39;--that maniacally promoted, ludicrously expensive sculpture project now infesting Central Park is the artistic equivalent of a yard that%26#39;s been strewn with stained toilet paper by juvenile delinquents on Halloween.

It is the defacement of beauty, not its creation--a fraud perpetrated on the people by no-talent hypemasters and their chief cheerleader in City Hall.

Please, make them go away!

Walking into the park yesterday, I was assaulted by thousands of what looked like shower curtrains twisting in the wind...

%26#39;The Gates%26#39; was presented as the ticket for our stubborn, precious, maddening city to be elevated into something of a quasi-Eurotrash capital (except where the natives bathe regularly)...

We were all pulled into a kind of mass hysteria orchestrated by a couple of charismatic snake oil salesmen--Christo and Jean Claude--and their pretentious booster Mayor Bloomberg.

%26#39;The Gates%26#39; is an abomination. Call me a Philistine, but how can one improve on trees, lakes and rocky outcroppings with miles of plastic-treated cloth?

It%26#39;s enough of a sin that %26#39;The Gates%26#39; overpowers Central Park%26#39;s soaring, hypnotic beauty. But the color of these bed sheets plunked down on metal frames every 12 feet throughout the park is so atrocious that the project%26#39;s creators ought to be charged with assault!...';

Thanks, Andrea. Couldn%26#39;t have said it better myself.

26 years in the making? sigh...

This ';art'; project looks like an endless car wash...

...hold the wax, please.

I%26#39;m amazed at the lack of understanding so many have regarding temporarary art installations... and the abject hate these things have spurred for a few art haters.

16 days. Blip. Gone. My recommendation to Ruffian..avoid the park until March 1st. Most of the reviews I%26#39;ve read speak of the transcendent quality...the joyous billowing of movement..

A few of my favorite lines, from John Barber in The Globe and Mail:';The Gates is well inoculated against the infection of such prosaic thinking'; and ';What is the point? To prove it can be done-to demonstrate that magic is still alive in the technocratic globopolis, that it is fully recyclable, and most impressively, that it has no price tag.'; And...';But there it was, epic in scale, heroic in its uselessness and 100 percent logo free. A miracle';..

I%26#39;ll be there this afternoon...Lunch at Gray%26#39;s Papaya...dinner at El Caridad or Cafe Frida...then Westminster or The Marijuana-logues...I%26#39;ll drop about $400 bucks into NY in 27 hours...all for ART.

hold the tough drive freshly founder