For some reason I'm reminded of Bette Davis's famous remark on hearing about Joan Crawford's death: "You should never say bad things about the dead, only good…

For some reason I'm reminded of Bette Davis's famous remark on hearing about Joan Crawford's death: "You should never say bad things about the dead, only good… Joan Crawford is dead. Good.” My favorite art installation of this genre was not by Christo, but it was a spoof inspired by his "Gates" in Central Park, in reaction to a piece called "Floating Island" that was itself billed as an "anti-Gates". http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2005/09/24/arts/24isla.span.jpg http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2005/09/24/arts/24isla.s... https://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/24/arts/design/a-miniature-gate-in-hot-pursuit-of-a-miniature-central-park.html https://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/24/arts/design/a-miniature-g... background on Floating Island https://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/16/arts/its-not-easy-making-art-that-floats.html https://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/16/arts/its-not-easy-making-... more background http://eyeteeth.blogspot.com/2005/11/public-art-on-cheap.html http://eyeteeth.blogspot.com/2005/11/public-art-on-cheap.htm... TL;DR: long story short: Gates was a lot of orange "doorways" installed in Central Park in Manhattan. Then a piece of green landscape garden was towed around on Manhattan's rivers, on a barge, by a tugboat. But somebody was inspired to chase the barge in a motorboat with a Christo inspired orange doorway on it...