Have you heard? Some artists put up a bunch of orange gates in Central Park! They’re orange…they’re gates…they are ORANGE GATES!!
They look like nice enough gates. I won’t pretend to understand the symbolism, if there is any. They’re ORANGE GATES!!!
These wooden gates - they are painted orange, and have orange fabric hanging down. They are placed in Central Park over the sidewalks. They are, you guessed it, orange gates. They are Orange Gates.
Orange Fucking Gates are in the mothafuckin house, mothafucka!
They are not yellow gates, nor are they red, unless one considers that these orange gates contain yellow and red simultaneously. I just blew my own mind. They are not green at all.
By observing and commenting on the orange gates, I am now a part of the art rather than being not of the art.
These orange gates - they are in Central Park. Have you heard? One of the artists has orangish hair, too.
The drawings used to design this particular … display… were sold to finance the gates. The gates were paid for in full by the artists, to the tune of about 20 million dollars. Because they wanted to.
So, the purpose of Art is to let eccentric people make money and do eccentric things.
P.S. According to the artists, there is absolutely 0 symbolism intended here - simply beauty was intended.
FTR, I kind of like them I’d like 1 or 2 in my back yard, I think. Put a hammock between them.
Belinda was the person who sang “Heaven is a Place on Earth,” and a couple minor hits back in the '80s.
And I think the gates are stupid, too. Looks like somebody bought up a bunch of ugly curtains that have been sitting around since 1978 and decided to set them up in the middle of Central Park for reasons that seem bewildering to those of us who aren’t big art fans:
Yup. You know there are few things higher on my list of pet peeves than going to a park and realizing that there is absolutely nothing there to remind me of the geometric grid pattern of the surrounding city blocks!
Also from the page (bolding mine):
These guys think sheets hanging on gates are a technical miracle? Wait till they see the cotton gin!
And the real purpose of art is to provoke (and possibly annoy) the culturally clueless, in an attempt to shock them out of their bland notions of taste.
The gates cost $22 million? That’s what the NY TIMES article said. Anyway, people came from as far away as Germany to see this …spectacle?
Man, why can’t I get into this racket? I’d drape sheets from the telephone poles, and call it art.
And on that note, think of how many people could be fed, clothed, and housed if the people who made Lord of the Rings spent the production money on the poor instead of making the movie. Or, for that matter, if you used the money you spend on ISP fees (and in buying your computer) and gave that to the poor. And while we’re at it, do you really need all those clothes? Some of them could clothe the poor.
I get sick of this line of reasoning. People have a right to spend money how they see fit. When you start making sanctimonious comments about how much better they could spend the money, you open your own spending habits (and possessions) to the same sort of scrutiny. Fun, isn’t it?
That’s nice. And who decides who is culturally clueless, and what defines art? Just because I don’t like something doesn’t mean I can’t appreciate art. It just means I don’t like what you like. I’m not required to. By the same token, you may think Japanese tea gardens are nasty. People are different. That’s considered a good thing. Diversity. Remember?
