Never looked into it because wasn’t interested but about Christo:
His work was funded mainly by selling preparatory drawings – he always refused any sponsorship.
“Sponsorship” in the art world all too often meaning taxpayers’ money…..
Never looked into it because wasn’t interested but about Christo:
His work was funded mainly by selling preparatory drawings – he always refused any sponsorship.
“Sponsorship” in the art world all too often meaning taxpayers’ money…..
The question now is whether he’s going to be wrapped for burial.
Yep, in the NYT obituary it specifically says that he never accepted grants or public money.
It also quotes John Russell of the Times, who wrote that Christo’s work was very popular with the public, however: “Whether it was ‘art,’ they neither knew nor cared.”
I think I’m with the public on this.
I hope he had enough education that he heard of Dido. So that he can ask to be skinned, his skin cut into small thin strips and then used to wrap the Statue of Liberty.
Well OK maybe that is a bit macabre. But it would make a great end piece to his career.