Christo In New York Close to Approval

It looks like the Christo and Jeanne Claude project to cover New York’s Central Parki with banners might go ahead, after years of trying. “Charlatans? Shamans? With their hard-sell tactics, their followers trailing them like Deadheads from one gig to the next, their feel-good populism and phenomenally expensive, grandiose ambitions, it’s no wonder Christo and Jeanne-Claude have made skeptics of people who haven’t seen their work, don’t understand it or don’t want to, and who won’t take them seriously.” And yet…