Ed Sozanski was in New York’s Central Park as Christo and Jeanne Claude’s banners were unfurled. “Despite the enormous number of gates, their spacing is such that they never coalesce into a memorable visual force. One perceives hundreds of individual elements instead of an ensemble. Even from a distance – looking across the spacious lawn of the Sheep Meadow, for instance – the effect is fragmented, even slightly chaotic. Only when one is sighting down a curve and the panels elide one into another does The Gates achieve coherence, but those impressions last only a few seconds.”