Arts
...stion is, what is it for?” Jeanne-Claude said at a news conference Friday. “And they will know to answer, ‘Oh, absolutely nothing; it is only a work of art.’” Talking about it is not the point, Christo said. “You need to spend time walking. You have cold air, sunny day, rainy day, even snow. ... Spend time experiencing the project,” he said. The Mom and Pop art act — first names only, please — gained fame for large-scale, temporary public works ranging from California’s “Running Fence” (1976) to Berlin’s “Wrapped Reichstag” (1995). NEW YORK - Christo and Jeanne-Claude, the husband and wife team whose $20 million art project “The Gates” unfurls Saturday in Manhattan’s Central Park, know that their large, fanciful, short-lived public artworks puzzle many people. advertisement That is why, for the 16 days “The Gates” is on display, about 300 uniformed monitors will be ready to answer questions, stationed among the 7,500 large saffron cloth panels hanging in similarly colored 16-foot-high door frames closely spaced along 23 miles of park walkways. “The usual que...