The Gates:
A Panel Discussion
Christo and Jeanne-Claude create temporary
projects on a grand scale in public spaces
throughout the world.
Albert Maysles, documentary filmmaker
and photographer
Antonio Ferrera, documentary filmmaker
In 1979, artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude proposed
one of the largest public works of art in history:
a “golden river” of 7,503 fabric-paneled gates in
Central Park. Overcoming controversy and opposition,
it was finally installed for a fifteen-day period
in 2005. The Gates, an HBO Documentary Film
directed by Antonio Ferrera, Albert Maysles, David
Maysles, and Matthew Prinzing (2007), chronicles the
artists’ twenty-six-year effort to transform the winter
darkness of the park into a garden of light and color
and bring art to the people of New York City.
Saturday, March 1, at 6:00 PM
The Gates will be screened on Saturday, March 1,
at 12:00 p.m., 2:00 p.m., and 4:00 p.m.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art thanks
HBO Documentary Films for providing The Gates
for these screenings.
All films are free
with museum admission. |
