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The Gates were a group of gates comprising a site-specific work of art by Bulgarian artist Christo Yavacheff and French artist Jeanne-Claude, known jointly as Christo and Jeanne-Claude. The artists installed 7,503 vinyl "gates" along 23 miles (37 km) of pathways in Central Park in New York City.
- Site-Specific Art
The Gates (Project for Central Park, New York City) Drawing 2001 in two parts. Pencil, charcoal, pastel, wax crayon, enamel paint, and aerial photograph. 38 x 165 cm and 106.6 x 165 cm (15 x 65 in and 42 x 65 in) Property of the Christo and Jeanne-Claude Foundation.
Nearly thirty years after the artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude first conceived of The Gates, this logistically complex project was finally realized over a period of two weeks in New York’s Central Park.
API. Images & permissions. Open access. The Gates was a site-specific, public work of art conceived by Christo and his wife and collaborator of many decades, Jeanne-Claude, and installed on twenty-three miles of pathways in New York’s Central Park from February 12-27, 2005.
19 de feb. de 2017 · For sixteen days in 2005 The Gates tempted millions of people to visit Central Park. The 7,500 structures in this epic public artwork – “gates” holding saffron-colored fabric – lined 23 winding miles through the iconic park. Photo by Malcolm Pinckney/NYC Parks.
6 de dic. de 2023 · However Central Park, a much-loved urban oasis, is one of the most famous examples of urban planning. The Gates reinforce and highlight pre-existing routes within this manmade environment. Critiques of The Gates that are rooted in the issue of the artwork’s relationship with nature are therefore curious since the Park itself is not ...
4 de oct. de 2022 · For nearly a century, the names of Central Park’s gates existed mostly on paper—on New York guide maps and Park plans. The commissioners left the Park’s entrances bare, intending for them to be developed by private investments that never materialized.