[lit-ideas] Re: Central Park (not your parent's FLO)
- From: Eric Yost <eyost1132@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 14:34:48 -0500
The Gates was conceived by artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude. The image
shows all of Central Park the gates geometrically placed throughout the
park.
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The latest news has it that vulgarian scofflaw aesthetes have defaced
one of the orange drapes near 93rd Street with graffiti that questions
the artistic stature of said textile-and-concrete assemblies. Another
wag with spraypaint has scribbled a portentous question about art on the
concrete beneath a Cristovian swatch in the southeast corner of the
park. This under the watch of crack NYPD squads, who are probably out of
their mind with joy at having to guard fabric in Central Park.
My guess is that Cristo has a profound Blatz beer habit and has been
schulmpfing before the DVD player with sixpacks, watching the Chinese
pain epic "Hero" over and over until he got enough moxie to garner the
orange flag motif as his own. It is a faded McDonalds Golden Arches
color, similar to the color of dried iodine on a leper's hand, and very
close to the orange in the volcanic mud T-shirts they sell on Maui.
However, with rollerblades, powerskis, or unicycles, list members could
probably take in the whole experience and still have energy for some
oysters at Balducci's on Spring Street.
Come for the art, come for the month-old newsprint stuffed into homeless
men's clothes, come for the New Jersey ambiance of midtown, come for the
kayaking on the Hudson, for the vomit-stained coeds staggering out of
bars near NYU, for that center of the decaying world Ground Zero
feeling, come flying from Brooklyn Marianne (oops sorry wrong shtick),
come for the bookstores, for the chance to put smiley faces on Cristo's
dropcloths, for the sound of Urdu spoken with a Bronx accent, for the
muddled masses yearning for free brie--whatever.
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