The REAL Gates

[mamculuna]

All you cat and art lovers must see this:

http://www.not-rocket-science.com/gates.htm

But I will also say I love the ones in NYC, and would love them even better if I could go there.

Also, there's an interesting discussion of The Gates in relation to Tibetan Buddhism at

http://www.livejournal.com/users/angiereedgarner/120229.html?view=625317#t625317

Comments

[ann1962]

I think that project is beautiful.

But I keep thinking, someone has to fold all of that fabric.

[mamculuna.livejournal.com]

Hopefully lots of someones, or it will take a very long time.

Actually, that could be fun, too. Could not be worse than putting three coats of paint on 24 panels of itty-bitty shutters.

[jackiejj.livejournal.com]

Thank you, thank you for this wonderfully witty website!

[ladystarlightsj.livejournal.com]

hehehehehehehe

[midnightsjane.livejournal.com]

I loved the kittygates! Very witty indeed.

[mummm.livejournal.com]

Kittygates! How fun!

[mamculuna.livejournal.com]

If you're not really, really tired of talking about this by now, you'll find this post interesting. It's a visit to the gates by a good writer and good viewer of art:

http://www.livejournal.com/users/shadowkat67/89066.html?style=mine#cutid1

[mummm.livejournal.com]

You know what is kind of funny? This writer goes on at length about Conceptual Art... but Christo's work is not Conceptual, or it would not be there. Conceptual Art is never actually built or made... it is only about the thinking, the concept, a plan. This is a page I found by looking at what you posted. I think it is an excellent page about what Christo is all about.

http://christojeanneclaude.net/errors.html

[mamculuna.livejournal.com]

But then how to classify works like "The Bride Stripped Bare By Her Bachelors, Even," that do have a physical existence but depend on what happens in the mind for the real art to happen? Is there another name for that kind of art?

[mummm.livejournal.com]

Well Duchamp was definitely in a class by himself!

I believe that construction is still considered to be Dada (his term for his art... the first word uttered by a child, and nonsensical) plus technological. He was such an innovator!

[mamculuna.livejournal.com]

Right, I know it's Dada, but there are lots of things now that share that aspect of having a physical object that depends on the viewer's knowledge beyond the object to make sense, or at least to have the full ramifications. And to me Dada has something of the absurd in it, but other things I've seen have been maybe more political, etc. Hard to give an example besides Christo right now, since I, as you see, don't really know a lot about art. Let me think about it and start this up again when I can give some examples.

[mummm.livejournal.com]

*oh oh... she's gonna make me think more...* ;-)