‘THE GATES’: COLOR THEM PURPLE

For an opening-day news story about the “The Gates” in New York’s Central Park, you might as well read the London Guardian’s report, which offers a more than adequate overview. For an opening-day appraisal, you might as well read the front-page appraisal in The New York Times by art critic Michael Kimmelman, who spares no purple prose: “In the winter light, the bright fabric seemed to warm the fields, flickering like a flame against the barren trees.” The image, right, from the front page of New York’s Daily News, also tells the story.

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