Iconic Site-Specific Project ‘The Gates’ Returns to NYC Through AR

Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s Gift to New York

I have this vague, flickering memory of neon orange billowing impossibly through threadbare trees like the penumbric trails of large, unseasonal fireflies. I would’ve been seven years old when the late Christo and Jeanne-Claude installed “The Gates” — 7,503 16-foot gates adorned with fabric flowing along 23 miles of walkways — for 16 days in Central Park in 2005. Christo and Jeanne-Claude: The Gates and Unrealized Projects for New York City, a p…

Iconic Site-Specific Project ‘The Gates’ Returns to NYC Through AR

Iconic Site-Specific Project ‘The Gates’ Returns to New York City Through Augmented Reality Photo: Morris Pearl, via Wikimedia Commons (CC 3.0) On February 12, 2005, Christo Yavacheff and Jeanne-Claude unveiled one of the world’s most iconic site-specific projects: The Gates. For two weeks, 7,503 steel “gates” towered over 23 miles of pathway in New York’s Central Park, each decorated with iridescent saffron flags that billowed in the mid-winter…