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...fall. Workers dig out a large circle and start laying plumbing, while curious passers by block entrance to the Science Center. Meanwhile, the Radcliffe Office of the Arts has anticipated the interest in "community art" in distributing grant money, a large chunk of which has gone to Christo, the avant-garde artist, to visit Harvard and wrap the Science Center...
...April 3--Christo arrives on campus, but on being shown the Science Center he is infuriated. "That's not a building, it's a Christmas present," he says. "I don't gift wrap...
Office of the Arts officials offer him the option of wrapping some other campus building, and after deliberating awhile Christo chooses the Graduate School of Design's Gund Hall. The next day he reveals that the Visual and Environmental Studies (VES) Department has offered him a visiting professorship in return for swathing Gund Hall in phosphoreseent pink nylon...
April 30--Large chunks of masonry begin to fall from Gund Hall; architecture students working late are startled by loud creaks and groans. Investigation reveals that the extra weight of Christo's wrappings has placed an intolerable strain on the already tottering building. B&G workers are called to the scene, but can do nothing other than cart away the fallen bricks...
...Christo, having belatedly heard about the damage to Gund Hall, wires an offer "to come back and wrap it tighter." Bok turns down the offer but suggests that Christo consider trying to wrap the mist arising from the new fountain. "Space is structure," he points...