Word: cristo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Robert Oppenheimer suggested the mesa between the Jemez and Sangre de Cristo mountains as the site for "Project Y" because it was one of his favorite places to hike. When the Army came in 1943 to build the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory and develop the bomb, the only real homes were the vacated faculty houses of the exclusive Los Alamos Ranch School for Boys. Their most prized features were bathtubs. The lowly had to rough it in barracks-like apartments on "Gold Street" or in the clanging metal "Denver steels" hastily built with shower stalls only. Bachelor Klaus Fuchs...
Recently the Union Juvenil Hispana of Cambridge Rindge Latin School sponsored a tund-raising dance at the Santo Cristo Club on Cambridge Street which featured a Dominican band, the Conjunto Imperio Latino, door prizes, and lots of dancing. Such events are much more than mere moneymakers...
...Bulgarian artist said his latest project, located in West Germany, has already caused more controversy than the "Running Fence" in California. Instead of encountering farmers and ranchers and belligerant bulls. Cristo says he must now contend with not only the West German Government but also with the East German Government, the Soviet Union...
...less politically and socially conscious [than mine] is not contemporary art. My art embodies the essence of contemporary art," Janacheff Cristo told the crowd of approximately 500 that jammed the basement of the Carpenter Center last night to hear the famed Bulgarian artist...
...Cristo said his most recent project, the 24-mile "Running Fence" constructed in San Marin County, Calif., involved a primitive, collective attitude consistent with his Marxist philosophy. The money raised to finance the project was collected from the sale of his own paintings, drawings, and other pieces of art, he said...