Christo and Jeanne-Claude in NYC

From Christo and Jeanne-Claude's web page:

On January 3, 2005, our professional workers will enter Central Park...they will place 15,000 steel weights bases at their specific positions on the edges of the walkways...On Monday, February 7, 2005, approximately 700 non-skilled workers...will elevate The Gates assemblies...The fabric panels will not initially be seen because they will be restrained in cocoons which will remain closed until Saturday, February 12, when all the cocoons will be opened, in one day...The Gates will remain in Central park for 16 days, then the removal will start.

In the meantime, photographs, drawings, maps and technical diagrams are on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art of what promises to be another controversial project by the duo who wrapped the Reichstag in Berlin and whose Umbrellas in California killed a viewer during a storm.