"Your contribution? It built our swimming pool."
"It's my money. I could build a chalet in Aspen, I could build a castle..."
NPR’s “Morning Edition” this morning interviewed wrap-everything-in-plastic artist Christo and his partner, Jeanne-Claude. Topic? How voluntary contributions pay for their art. Oh, and their chalet.
Don’t tell Karl Rove or any other red-white-and-blue-blooded inauguralist, but this French artist duo getting ready to swathe Central Park in saffron-orange torii gates have a very lax attitude about how to spend the money they make from pre-selling drawings of their art:
“It’s my money,” Christo said, apparently peeved the friendly NPR reporter questioned how much of the pre-sold profits actually go into carrying out the next installation.
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