cartoon from current issue of the New Yorker

[Michael Eisenstadt]

The morning of the opening of Christo's "Gates" in 
Central Park, Kelly called us at 7am Austin time
on her cellphone to report to us on it. She said a propos 
of the crowd she was standing in I'm surrounded by 
poodles.

My friend on 119th street - 10 blocks from the
park - is a grouch. He dissed it and made a 
Hare Krishna joke about the saffron color of
the cloth.

I would have liked to have seen the Pont Neuf
wrapped by Christo. This is the most dignified bridge
in Paris and, looking at the photos, you can still see 
the peculiar faceted shape of the arches underneath 
the cloth. Maybe, just maybe the Pont Neuf 
needed to be wrapped for the sake of aesthetic 
necessity.


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