`Christo': It's a Wrap

From: The Washington Post | Date: July 26, 1991| Author: Desson Howe | Copyright information

CHRISTO JAVACHEFF states his case simply. "All I know," he says with a shrug, "is that I feel the need to wrap the Pont Neuf."

The year is 1975. The artist, known simply as Christo, is talking about Paris's historic bridge, which he proposes to cover - completely - in golden polyamide fabric. In "Christo in Paris," a stirring documentary, filmmakers David and Albert Maysles, Deborah Dickson and Susan Froemke begin following Christo that year, as he petitions Paris Mayor Jacques Chir...

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