Updated. If you wrap a public park with five bucks of toilet paper at midnight, you’ll get a stern lecture from the judge and some unpleasant community service. But if you desecrate the scenic canyon of the Arkansas River in Colorado with 50 million bucks of plastic at high noon, you’ll be hailed as a great artist…at least by nature hating snoots with lowbrow tastes, and tourism entrepreneurs hoping to cash in on gawking at Over the River, which is kitsch on a cosmic scale.
Yep, Christo — the art world’s biggest bull in a china shop — is on the loose. Again. With the blessing of our federal government. The New York Times has the details.
I have heartburn, a headache, and suggestions. Instead of wrapping nature in plastic, wrap Christo in that 50 megabucks of plastic and put him on display in the Vandalism Hall of Fame. Force Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar, a co-conspirator in Christo’s delusions of grandeur, to come to his senses and put a wrap on this nonesense. And have Hillary revoke le grande artiste’s visa.
What Christo does isn’t art. It’s what the south end of the bull deposits on the china shop’s floor. How even a politician can swear it smells like roses is beyond my ken.
