Word: christos
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Portuguese groceries featuring sausages and squid and the Santo Christo Society with the Portuguese flag in front slowly give way to Italian East Cambridge, where everyone gathers on the main street to chat. Kids play craps on a side street crosswalk, and every home with a few feet between it and the sidewalk has a garden--lush beds of marigolds, cucumbers and tomatoes...
...Christo: Urban Projects--Institute of Contemporary Art, May 9-July...
Center Screen. Two documentaries on the environmental sculptor Christo, "Christo's Valley Curtain" and "Running Fence," at the Capenter Center, Friday through Saturday...
...second act is a repeat of the first, except this time with all the multi-media possibilities of the Loeb exploited. This part is wholly the creation of director Peter Sellars '80, Harvard's own artist-huckster Christo who as a freshman has foisted this crazy unorthodox production on the mainstage. His concept is a chic one A la Altman and Chorus Line, the director and actors got together during rehearsal in a dance studio filled with mirrors and spent a month improvising, trying to squeeze characters out of the Sitwell poetry, while a photographer snapped glamourous pictures...
...Artist Jim Rosenquist, one of the group of artists, museum curators and dealers who assembled to watch the installation. "It was a beautiful birth, all rosy mist and hidden sunlight," enthused the curator of Dartmouth's Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Jan van der Marck, a longtime collaborator of Christo's. "It can't be owned or rented or bought. The artist doesn't get any richer, but you do." But was it, a reporter asked, another Great Wall of China? Smiling, Christo revised his 1968 opinion. "No, it is not a Wall of China! China Great...