Christo's Deutsche Mark; Artist Gets Go-Ahead To Wrap the Reichstag

The Washington Post | February 26, 1994| | Copyright

It's a wrap: After 22 years of pleading, promoting and cajoling, the artist Christo finally received permission today from the German Parliament to wrap Berlin's historic Reichstag with 1 million square feet of silver plastic fabric.

After a lively and angst-ridden debate in which parliamentarians thundered against desecrating a national symbol and fretted about what the German people would think, the Bundestag here nonetheless voted 292 to 223 in favor of the Bulgarian American artist's "Wrapped Reichstag" project.

"If God can be the subject of art, certainly the Reichstag can also be ...

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