Speaking of Art...

The New York Times reported that the artist Christo and his wife Jeanne-Claude unveiled "The Gate" in Central Park today. The Gate is a bunch of orange panels with hanging orange fabric. These panels are placed throughout Central park as sort of an orange gateway.

It cost $21 million to produce this 'art,' which was mostly paid for by the artist. This is a further continuation of conceptual art, 'art as idea' a conception in the mind of the artist. As I read the article in the NY Times, the acceptance of this type of art was a forgone conclusion. What made this art was not the fact that it added to the aesthetics of the park, no it was art because the artist said it was art. In fact Christo goes as far as defines the very purpose and meaning of his art.

I look at Christo's work, and think "the emperor has no clothes." But neither does the everybody else.