'The Gates' Liven Up Central Park
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"The Gates" are open &#151; all 7,500 of 'em. The biggest art project in New York City's history debuted Saturday in Central Park with the unfurling of saffron-colored fabric banners suspended in 16-foot-high frames, providing a splash of sunrise 26 years in the making.
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Architect Shigeru Ban doesn't settle when it comes to bringing the outside in. The two-layer facade on his Metal Shutter Houses, a condo building planned for New York's Chelsea district, will let residents become one with the city.
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The winning design for the proposed park on Governors Island reflects the kind of imaginative, civic-minded thinking that can restore our faith in city and state leaders.
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Christo and Jeanne-Claude, the husband  and wife team whose $20 million art project "The Gates" unfurls  in Manhattan's Central Park on Saturday, know that their large,  fanciful, short-lived public art works puzzle many people.
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The architects at Weisz + Yoes didn't set out to reinvent the merry-go-round. But when the firm was asked to transform Manhattan's Battery Park into a tourist magnet, that's exactly what it ended up doing.
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Is Central Park a serene "church" for reflective New Yorkers or a bustling "town square" for the masses?
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New Yorkers know how to hide when crowds roll in.
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com. (New York City) Why turn one of the most successful Broadway musicals in history - seen by over 80 million people worldwide, since its debut in Londonâs West End in 1986 - into a big screen spectacle?
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Love it or hate it, you won't be able  to miss the 7,500 saffron-colored "gates" being installed in  New York's Central Park by the artist Christo in one of the  biggest art projects ever attempted in the city.
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An event at Gracie Mansion looked back at "The Gates," the Christo art project that Mayor Bloomberg declared a work of genius.
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Genre-bending, time-straddling adaptation has become an exceptionally lively art on Londonâs stages this season.
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New Yorkers have long used roofs and balconies to rise above the din. But in many older buildings, the humble fire escape has always been the next best thing.
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Some protesters-in-waiting seem to think that their right to free expression can&#39;t be separated from the right to trash New York City&#39;s Central Park.
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New York has recently witnessed the unveiling of nearly half a dozen major architectural landmarks, an abundance the city hasnât seen in decades.
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Fino alla fine di febbraio una installazione del celebre artistaCentinaia di strutture e teli cambiano faccia all'oasi di New York                                                  Porte e farfalle arancioni Christo modifica Central Park
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"The Gates," the Central Park installation by Christo and his wife, Jeanne-Claude, is the first great public art event of the century.
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In the nine months since escaping her travel cage at Kennedy Airport, Vivi the wayward whippet has joined the Central Park coyote, high-rise tiger, Harlem Meer caiman and Molly the fugitive feline in New York's ever-growing pantheon of urban animal legends.