Brian Lair on WNYC. To wrap up today, we're going to have a call in about your favorite

pieces of public art and especially those immersive projects that change how you see the city.

212-433 WNYC, 212-433-9692. I'm going to bring up a specific one, which is why we bring it up

today. But we're casting the net wide. What is a favorite piece of public art that you have liked

to see at any time or that you like to visit and revisit that you might like to share with our other

listeners. A favorite piece of public art anywhere in our area or anywhere for that matter.

212-433 WNYC, 212-433-9692 call or text. Why? Well, did you know it's been 20 years since Christo and Jean-Claude's

the Gates graced Central Park? For those of you who weren't around for this or didn't see it,

they were giant orange, I think they call them saffron-colored banners that stretched

across an expanse of Central Park, some 7,500 of them.

It was years into planning, and it ran for only 16 days, but it drew millions of people to the park.

Were you one of them?

I happened to have been.

It was a fun experience.

Did seeing the gates have an effect on you and how you

experienced Central Park? Did it make you see the park in a different way, which I think was

part of the point besides just kind of the fun colors and shapes and sizes and stuff? Call or text

us at 212-433 WNYC about the gates or any favorite piece of immersive public art from any time

or any favorite piece of existing public art of any kind.

212-433 WNYC 212-433-962-962-9-662. For a few more weeks, around the 20th anniversary of the gates,

you can reportedly kind of sort of get a sense of the gates now and see what it looked like,

at least on your phone screen, as you walk along a path by Cherry Hill in Central Park in what's called augmented reality.

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