Christo
and Jeanne-Claude:
Mazel Tov
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FEBRUARY
13,
2005 --
The
very copyrighted public space art project -- said to be the
largest in the history of New York City --- is now reality.
In
an image suggested to LPR by one
observer "The Gates" has been completed on the canvas of Central Park.
And is to remain there until February 27, and then to be erased -- except from
memory.
This edition of Lonely Pamphleteer Review is devoted solely to "The Gates" --
the remarkable achievement of Christo and Jeanne-Claude.
Last week, LPR carried some photos taken on February
7, the day the frames of
The Gates -- with their parking summons envelope-colored cross bars -- started
to appear on the Central Park canvas.
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Mayor
Bloomberg and "The Gates" standing in Central Park.
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Christo
and Jeanne-Claude with New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
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The photos that
appear in this LPR edition begin with February 8, showing work on the
project (with one photo of a former Texas governor, Ann Richards, a
member of one of the 73 teams putting The Gates up), and continue through
February 12, with The Gates unfurled -- the moment when Jeanne-Claude
said, at her February
11 press conference, that she would be "ecstatic."
LPR
first photographed Christo and Jeanne-Claude on February 9, at
Central Park's north end, when they arrived for an interview with
Jim Wooten of ABC News.
LPR also got an exclusive photo of the mayor, at this location, and one of the
mayor with John Seigenthaler of NBC News.
LPR attended the February 11 press conference on The Gates, held at the Temple
Dendur space at the Metropolitan Museum.
Among those photographed at the press conference was Vince Davenport, the project's
chief engineer who designed the frames for The Gates.
This press conference was attended by many foreign journalists (one is shown
asking a question), but this arts project has also gotten considerable attention
from the U.S. media.
(LPR would not be surprised to see The Gates and/or the artists on a magazine
cover.)
And so -- as the cliche goes -- without further ado (other than one piece of
doggerel) LPR's photos of Five Days
of "The Gates" -- February 8 to February 12, 2005.
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Volunteers
erect one of the Gates on February 7.
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"The
Gates": February 8
Working on the canvas of Central Park |
FEBRUARY
8,
2005 --
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"The
Gates": February 9
At Central Park's North End |
FEBRUARY
9,
2005 --
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"The
Gates": February 10
Some Geometric Perspectives |
FEBRUARY
10, 2005 --
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"The
Gates": February 11
The Eve of Unfurling |
FEBRUARY
11, 2005 --
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"The
Gates": February 12
At Long Last |
FEBRUARY
12, 2005 --
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