February 15, 2005
The Gates
Christo and Jean-Claude's website hosts some cool pictures by Wolfgang Volz of their "The Gates" installation in NYC. Their installations always seem overly simplistic on the face of it--enormous sheets of various material, in landscapes and over buildings. But in practice they're wonderful and startling; they change the scale of art, shifting it into architecture and urban space. They remind me of Richard Serra's work.
