How is it in person?

what is this ?

What is this??!!!!! Why are they wasting money when they could be spending it in poor areas. I walked by this yesterday on they way to the movie theatre and was so fucking pissed. I have to avoid the park now just to get to the whole foods market cause this shit makes so me mad!!!!
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Mach said:

The newest Christo installation, The Gates, located in Central Park: http://www.christojeannec...et/tg.html

* shrugs* yeah ... for those of us that dont know ... WHAT IS THIS ?

Stax said:

Hhmmm ... interesting ...

thank you

This is the shit MOMA should charge 20 dollars for. Central Park is a respite for many New Yorkers who try get away from whatever. This has completly upset so many folks

lilgish said:

I hear you about the cost, but it will benefit charity and at least New Yorker's dont have to pay for it.

As Christo and Jeanne-Claude have always done for their previous projects, The Gates will be entirely financed by the artists through C.V.J. Corp, (Jeanne-Claude Javacheff, President) with the sale of studies, preparatory drawings and collages, scale models, earlier works of the fifties and sixties, and original lithographs on other subjects.

The artists do not accept sponsorship or donations.

Christo and Jeanne-Claude have donated the merchandising rights to the charitable foundation "NNYN" (Nurture New York's Nature and Arts) who are sharing these rights with The Central Park Conservancy.

lilgish said:

The new MOMA admission fee IS ridiculous.

Couldn't make it this weekend I'm going next week end (God willing)and then to MOMA
I'm sure the fee is crazy but I'm sure it's worth it I was at the MET last week and they charge $15 a person so DIA in upstate charged me 20 bucks a few weeks ago,I think. It's a nice way to spend an afternoon though

Okay this was paid for by the artist and will only be up for 2 more weeks so I don't really think it is worth getting pissed about. Sure the artists could have given the money to the poor but couldn't that be said about all celebrities including our own prince. In my opinion they need to make more umbrellas for the cows


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I'll try to get out there for it.

Hopefully assholes won't try to destroy it.

Here what he did a couple of years ago in Paris on "Le Pont Neuf". It's a way of art quite interesting...

jizzinparis said:

I like what they did in Florida

Sweeny

This costed $20 milliom?

I'd like to check this out. But, then, I never did get to see the "Tower of Lights" at Ground Zero, either.

jizzinparis said:

Stax said:

Like a bunch of big toothpicks destroying the scenery.

Well, at least that's what it looks like from here.

Sweeny79 said:

What the...? That's got to be the ugliest shit Ive ever seen. Looks like a gigantic kid put a cardboard-cutout over an island.

dreamfactory313 said:

$21 million, I heard. But the artists paid for every penny, I understand.

I'd love to see it in person, but oh well.