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The Gates have only been with us for a few days, and already, New Yorkers are making it feel at home. A Tale of Two Cities points out that vandalism has already occured, with the above picture from Newsday, while Verbose Coma notes that the spirit of The Gates can be found everywhere. And last night, The Daily Show had senior conceptual art correspondent Stephen Colbert discuss the project...Gothamist recommends you see the repeat tonight at 7PM on Comedy Central.
Gawker reports that there will be a Taschen (Taschen!) book about The Gates from Christo and Jeanne-Claude. Curbed hit some of the emerging The Gates Backlash (aka, TGB, as in "I got so much TGB, I never want to go to Central Park again...until there's a snowfall and I can use my slide.") yesterday. And no word yet if Patricia Field is getting mistaken for Jeanne-Claude. [Gothamist on The Gates hangover]
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Wait ... isn't that grafitti considered art too? What about art created on top of art ... is that art?
Hey, and could that spray removal act not be considered an artistic "happening"? ...and as for the photographic documentation of the whole thing, isn't that, too, considered art...
that graffiti was made using a black marker. we should ban the sale of markers in nyc in order to prevent the scourge of graffiti.
Hey. Beauty's where you find it.
Or one could watch the Daily Show segment about the Gates on their website: "Hang on, this is a five stroker, Jon..."
I found an interesting take down of the whole gate event on www.tokyonyc.com. They claim that the Gates are a rip off of some Japanese architect. It does kind of make sense, who knows, it all seems like media whoring to me either way.
I went to Central Park and saw the gates. Can some 1 tell me whats so artistic about them? It is orange and it looks like a flag. It just looks like 2 columns.... I must not have an art side.
P.S. I think its terrible how there is graffiti. Arent the parks department doing its job to watch people from doing wrong?
ART IS EVERYWHERE ESPECIALLY GRAFFITI THE ART OF THE VANDAL GETTING OVER ON SOME 100 POLICE OFFICERS ON DUTY IT SHOWS THAT NEW YORK THRIVES FOR ATTENTION CAUSE IF THE ARTIST WANTED TO HE COULD PUT FLAG POLES ALL IN FRONT OF YOUR PARK AND SEE WHAT TRUE FEELINGS THAT BRING TO YOU FOR EVERY RIGHT THERE A WRONG BUT THE VANDAL ACT I THINKS IS LIKE PEOPLE WHO HIT PYRIMDS WITH GRAFF =0)