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Saturday, November 21. 2009

Jeanne-Claude

Jeanne-Claude died - Christo's remarkable wife.


One of the first posts on this site, back when we had around 20 visits per day and had no idea what we were doing (not that we do now), was our visit to Christo's Gates on a frigid day in Central Park:



Posted by Opie in The Culture, "Culture," Pop Culture and Recreation at 15:35 | Comments (6) | Trackbacks (0)

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Worked with them briefly. Very iinteresting couple. Amazing visuals at amazing prices. Sock-on-the-side-of-the-head: could this money be spent better elsewhere?
#1 jma on 2009-11-21 16:13 (Reply)
sure there is always a better way to spend money but they paid for it and what is better than giving millions of people jhoy and showcasing a beautiful city like New York? What about Harry Reid giving Senator Landrieu 100 million dollars the her coffer, isn't there a better way to spend that money? It is all in the eye of the beholder as they say.
#2 opie109 on 2009-11-21 18:04 (Reply)
You're right. T'were amazing.
#2.1 jma on 2009-11-21 19:19 (Reply)
Turns out it was three hundred million.

Now that's a pay off.
#2.2 Tom Francis on 2009-11-22 01:54 (Reply)
I went over the Grapevine between the LA basin and the Central Valley in California several times while the big, yellow umbrellas were being installed on the mountainsides, and during the time they remained up. I was most intrigued by the groups of 20-foot umbrellas in meadows, sort of reminding me of mushrooms which just pop up one day in the lawn.

As I recall, a set of umbrellas in a different color was going up in Japan at the same time. Blue, I think.

I was also on the road during the windstorm that unmoored some of the umbrellas and sent them tumbling and skidding down the hills and across the valley. Crews tried to close them all, but many got away. Pretty scary. One killed a woman and Cristo immediately took down the project. Broke his heart, as I recall.
#3 CRT on 2009-11-21 23:17 (Reply)
I remember their South Beach project in Newport, RI in 1974. I had come home for a visit while it was being installed and took a ride with some friends to see it.

Didn't quite get it until the wind and waves started on it.

Very intriguing.

Interesting couple to be sure.
#4 Tom Francis on 2009-11-22 02:02 (Reply)

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