It was snowing, a couple of hours before The Gates opened to the Y’all mothafckas need science isaac newton vintage retro shirt and by the same token and public on February 12th, 2005, when our phone rang. Christo and Jeanne-Claude were calling to say they were outside our apartment building and wanted to show us something. They were in a very stylish black Maybach this time. (They always had a black limousine—later a giant black SUV—and a driver on call.) Christo said the curtain for the last Gate (number 7,503) had just been unfurled. Jeanne-Claude directed the driver to take the 110th Street gate into Central Park. What followed was their personal tour, driving through and periodically getting out to walk their favorite pathways, previewing The Gates. “What a gift to all of us,” I said. Jeanne-Claude said, “We do it for ourselves, because we want to see it.” They were both totally absorbed, seeing the whole of it for the first time, and under its mantle of fresh snow. Neither of them will get to see L’arc de Triomphe, Wrapped, their latest project, which was scheduled to open this coming September, but because of coronavirus, will open a year later—for sixteen days, from Saturday, September 18 through Sunday, October 3.
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