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Christo’s The Gates: An Appreciation

It was an audacious project: 7500 saffron-orange gates covering 23 miles of footpaths in Central Park.  A work of art some 25 years in the making, with an estimated total cost of $21 million, paid for by the artist.  And it had the whole city talking.

Christo’s The Gates: An Appreciation

It was an audacious display: thousands of saffron-orange banners in a gray, February Central Park, a work of public art that took decades to complete.

Billowing in the wind, clouds scudding across the sun so that when they passed, the banners glowed.

The reviews may have been mixed, but the project had the whole city talking, and art lovers flew in from all over to see it.