>From the NYTimes: A work of art featuring 23 miles of billowing saffron-colored fabric by the artist Christo and his wife Jeanne-Claude will be displayed along Central Park's pedestrian paths for two weeks in February 2005, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg announced yesterday.
It will be the first public art project in New York for the Bulgarian-born artist and his wife, who have previously wrapped the German Reichstag in white cloth and scattered several thousand blue and yellow umbrellas across Japan and California. http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/23/arts/design/23CHRI.html I'm so excited about this! I can't wait to walk through the park while this project is up. It'll be beautiful, all that billowing marigold colored fabric marking the paths and visible even from afar through the trees when winter is at its grayest. I've never seen a Christo creation in person and have always wanted to, and am very happy Christo and Jeanne-Claude have finally been given the go-ahead. Has anyone here experienced one of Christo's projects? Debra Shea Now imagining strolling under huge pieces of bright cloth being made alive and blown by the wind into unexpected and uncontrollable shapes... magnificent!
