Hooray!
You can always count on the NY Post to kill your buzz. Behold, raving lunatic Andrea Peyser turning away from Monica’s blue dress for fifteen minutes:
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Screw her.
Of course, screw her.
She’s just flat out wrong. Even if you don’t get the aesthetics (and what’s not to get? Luminous color against the dead gray of winter?) the sheer massiveness of the project is breathtaking. Even Bill Repsher agrees with that!
She sounds like a spoilsport.
Another overheard comment: “I love watching the folds of orange wave on the breeze.”
I think you and Jurgen owe it to yourselves to try the exhibit stoned while listening to Yes on your respective MP3 players … if not for this, then next time you do your laundry and get the urge to watch it dry on the line.
Enough now — I’m too busy designing a giant red prophylactic to cover the Empire State Building.
Oh, come on! YOU didn’t like watching the folds of orange wave on the breeze! Give this person a break.
Is laser rock still open at the Hayden Planetarium? I figure me, you and Jurgen can do a few bowls at Strawberry Field, saunter over through the gates at sunset, watch some cool laser rock at the Planetarium, maybe convince them to do 2112 or Tales of Topograhic Oceans, then throw the I Ching in the Sheep Meadow. It’s not too late to change our destinies, man.
not a big fan of the Post or Ms Peyser for that matter — but I must say for once I am glad someone has the courage to call this ‘art’ by its real name — CRAP! I hope the hundreds of homeless populating our wonderful park have enough brains to take these shmatas off and put them to good use as blankets.
That’s a fairly idiotic statement. If the art doesn’t speak to you, it doesn’t speak to you – but there is no need to be angry toward it. It costs the City nothing and has already brought in tons of revenue to the Parks dept through shirts, posters and books (one of which Ann bought and is now on my kitchen table!) Ostensibly, that money can go to any number of programs in the park, like outreach toward the homeless. I don’t see how anyone can be anything other than positive or neutral to The Gates. They’ll be gone in no time, anyway.
Have you seen them in person?
This just in from the NY Times:
By the time the 7,500 gates are taken down in two weeks, the city expects to generate $80 million in business, with $2.5 million in city taxes alone, according to the city’s Economic Development Corporation.
If you don’t like art, you at least like money. Get on your knees and kiss Christo & Jeanne-Claude’s saffron colored hem!