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Sunday, February 20, 2005 » art update

From last week's Daily Show: Stephen Colbert on Christo and Jeanne-Claude's much-hyped Gates in New York:

"The Gates is a triumph of contemporary installation art, each gate redefining its section of the park as not a public place for private reflection, but a private place for public reflection. Juxtaposed with the barrenness of midwinter, the Gates posits a chromatic orgy. This riot of color achieves a rare re-defamiliarization with the nature of place-time, the what-ness of our where-ness, no longer framed... I'm sorry, I've run out of crap."