Recently in The Gates Category

As if to validate that the scientific principle "What goes up, must come down" is in fact correct, it appears that the equilibrium in the universe is about to be restored as the Central Park installation, The Gates, begins to come down.

Gary, of SadMensClub.com (a sort of odd name for a blog...but I digress), has some great photos in his gallery that I encourage you to browse through.

While it's clearly a sad and apparently aggravating day for many, this photo really seems to capture the sentiment for many of us.

Great shot Gary!

You've more then likely read about the Gates in Central park already and if you haven't...well...guess you've been living under a rock. Anyhow, I came across these two 3D QuickTime .mov's on the aptbroadcast blog. If you haven't actually been to The Gates, now you can go...in VR. That said, I advise against it as you're much more likely to enjoy it while breathing fresh Central Park oxygen. ;) Get outside DAMMIT!

The Gates 1
The Gates 2

Enjoy!

Gothamist and Curbed each point us to a few resources on the opening of The Gates, the Christo and Jeanne-Claude installation opening in the park this Saturday morning. I'll be in the park on Saturday taking lots of photographs, so be sure to stop back from time to time to see the updates. You can find the current photos (not taken by yours truly) in the Epicenter image gallery here.

It's beginning to look a lot like Christo-and-Jeanne-Claude's-vision- for-Central-Park! Yesterday, hundreds of people descended into Central Park to start setting up The Gates, one of the biggest public art projects to hit New York City. The project, funded by Christo and wife Jeanne-Claude, that will have 7,500 gates with saffron fabric all around the park is opening on Saturday and will be up until Feburary 27. Newsday looks at the scope of the project and includes this great quote from Jeanne-Claude that's a barely veiled dig at art historians:


One of our workers on the night shift asked me why is it temporary. I told him to think of the rainbow. And he grabbed my arm and says, "I think I got it: If the gates were there all the time, after a while nobody would be looking at them and the magic would be gone." And I said, "You've got it better than most art historians."


Our own Joe Schumacher gave us this lovely photograph of the supports for the fabric being installed. His extensive coverage of The Gates notes that a worker said the gates were easy to put up and that the fabric will be unfurled at 8AM on Saturday. Thanks, Joe!