Colorado Wildlife Commission opposes artist Christo's "Over the River" project

[harvey007]

Source: Denver Post

About 13 years into the artist's $50 million plan to temporarily suspend 5.9 miles of translucent fabric above the Arkansas River between Salida and Cañon City, the opposition of the Wildlife Commission represents the largest stumbling block for the project to date.

Read more: http://www.denverpost.com/ci_18036816

[kiva]

1. Colorado already had one Christo project,

they really don't need another.



His "Valley Curtain" 1972

[Lursa CB]

2. huge waste of $

Sounds like an enormous waste of time and money...and very distruptive to the environment as well.

How pretentious and wasteful do we need to get?

"Three years to set up and three to take down"!!

[Bonobo]

3. I'm no critic, but I know what I like and I think Christo is pretty damned boring.

He hangs a lot of material. Big deal.

[Kolesar]

4. That guy's still alive? ... eom

[Javaman]

5. Can't wait to hear about the next part: the "through the woods" exhibit. LOL nt

[TalkingDog]

6. Well, if as he claims, the work is not just about the physical object

but about the process of communicating his ideas so that people and institutions participate freely and as a community, I'd say that this is just part of the process.

And if the physical object is not suspended over the river, then he still has created a work. An uncompleted work, but a work never the less.

[KittyWampus]

7. Sick of Christo. His work is totally self referential and redundant.

[eppur_se_muova]

8. Memo to Christo -- build it in virtual reality.

You live there anyway, so shit on your own lawn.

[Safetykitten]

9. How about "Food Bank Enclosure" for 50 million.