christo almighty [dzahsh] hi, ill welcome myself here, crash this party, with some images from the new massive art installation in central park, ny by mega-scale fabric artists christo and jeanne claude, whove done impossible installations wrapping entire bridges, buildings and islands in fabric. this one they call it 'the gates' and its 7500 of these 'saffron' [its just orange, people] colored fabric structures lining 23 miles of central park pathways. it opened saturday and itll only be up for 16 days, to be then taken down and all parts completely recycled. its quite nice, very strange, i love it, stuff like this needs to happen all the time. christo has supposedly been trying to realize this project since 1976 before nyc finally allowed it to happen, which is quite pathetic, and christo has been a very respected artist since the 70s, incredible ideas like this need to be free to happen without loads of bureaucratic hoop-jumping, and especially they need to be able to come from any artist with an incredible idea, anyone, not just the artistic elite. thats why i love these graffiti/illegal artists, they just assume that public space is what it is, public, and they freely and publicly display their art with that assumtion, but anyway, here are some pics..

you can see 'lord' norman foster's neato new Hearst Tower going up in the background of the first pic [click to see bigger]

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