The Gates, February 12-27, 2005

The Gates, Looking West From the Met's Roof Garden

From the Metropolitan Museum of Art's roof garden, looking west

© Stan Parchin

Still on the Met's roof garden, Stan fixes his lens towards Central Park West, overlooking the Great Lawn with its multiple streams of Gates and Cleopatra's Needle.

About The Gates

Artists: Christo and Jeanne-Claude
Work Conceived: 1979
Installed: February 12-27, 2005
Medium:

• 5,290 US Tons of steel
• 315,491 linear feet of vinyl tubing
• 1,067,330 square feet of rip-stop nylon fabric

All images © Stan Parchin; used here with permission for public viewing purposes only. Images may not be copied, altered, retransmitted or used commercially in any way.

• The Gates at Fifth Avenue and East 77th
• The Gates, Looking Northwest From the Met's Roof Garden
• The Gates, Looking West From the Met's Roof Garden
• The Gates at Fifth Avenue and East 84th
• The Gates at Fifth Avenue and East 84th, Looking Southwest