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February 08, 2005
Orange Revolution
This is what we get for not paying enough attention to art. Just last weekend, we were saying how the Gates project in Central Park was never going to get done. Now we see that it'll be done by Saturday. Then, when we were walking to our office on Central Park North in the morning yesterday, we said that they'd never put them up in the relatively run-down UES area where we work. Sure enough, we walked under several of the weirdo orange arches on the way to the train after work. Shows how much we know.
The idea seems pretty cool, but at the risk of being a stick-in-the-mud, we can't help but think that the massive orange gates are going to take something away from the Olmstead & Vaux masterpiece that's already there. Isn't it enough that there are 843 acres of green in the heart of New York City? That kind of aesthetic juxtaposition seems pretty radical to us as it is. We can't shake the feeling that injecting the city's verdant sanctuary with this kind of artifice is essentially hijacking the intentions of the park's designers, and so taking something away from the city outside of the park. But then again, what do we know?
We'll reserve judgement until we can see it all in place.
Posted by matt at February 8, 2005 10:22 AM
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Matt, can you please stop talking about the Patriots? Enough is enough. I relent.
Posted by: Kevin at February 8, 2005 01:00 PM
am i missing something here or are you just pulling a "kevin hates phil elverum" kind of thing on me?
Posted by: matt at February 8, 2005 01:03 PM
The latter. Man that comments debate yesterday took a lot out of me. It was like ESPN's 'PTi', w/o the knowledge or charm of the original.
Posted by: Kevin at February 8, 2005 01:24 PM
for reals, doggie. it was kind of like tucker carlson and raj bhakta pulling with their teeth on both ends of a rotten piece of meat, but without the bowties or nutritional value.
Posted by: matt at February 8, 2005 01:35 PM
FYI, it's only a temporary installation -- i think for 12 or 14 days.
Posted by: lee at February 11, 2005 01:42 PM
did what i wrote give the impression that it wasn't temporary? is the point that i'm over-reacting to something that's not going to be there for very long? 'cos i wouldn't put it past me if i were.
still, they haven't been up for more than a couple of days now, and i'm already sick of seeing them out the window. i'd much rather see the frozen lake across the street than the landing strip that's out there now.
like i said in the post, stick in the mud.
Posted by: matt at February 11, 2005 01:55 PM
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