{"id":3218,"date":"2011-11-08T13:32:10","date_gmt":"2011-11-08T20:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2011\/11\/christo-cool-in-colorado\/"},"modified":"2011-11-13T14:29:39","modified_gmt":"2011-11-13T21:29:39","slug":"christo-cool-in-colorado","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2011\/11\/08\/christo-cool-in-colorado\/","title":{"rendered":"Christo Cool In Colorado"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/11\/08\/us\/United-States-Approves-Christos-Over-the-River-Project-in-Colorado.html\" target=\"_blank\">from The New York Times<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h1>U.S. Clears Art Project by Christo in Colorado<\/h1>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/graphics8.nytimes.com\/images\/2011\/11\/08\/us\/CHRISTO\/CHRISTO-articleLarge.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"480\" height=\"280\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"credit\" style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.9em; line-height: 1.223em; text-align: right; color: #909090; margin-bottom: 3px\">Kevin Moloney for The New York Times<\/p>\n<p>By\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/people\/j\/kirk_johnson\/index.html?inline=nyt-per\" target=\"_blank\">KIRK JOHNSON<\/a><\/p>\n<p>DENVER \u2014 Federal regulators on Monday approved a $50 million installation of anchored fabric over the Arkansas River in southern Colorado by the artist Christo, whose larger-than-life vision has divided environmentalists, residents and politicians for years over questions of aesthetics, nature and economic impact.<\/p>\n<p>The project, \u201cOver the River,\u201d will include eight suspended panel segments totaling 5.9 miles along a 42-mile stretch of the river, about three hours southwest of Denver. Construction could begin next year, pending final local approvals, with the goal being a two-week display of the work as early as August 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Christo, 76, said in an interview that the project had already made history for its interconnection of art and public participation, with a federal environmental impact\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.blm.gov\/co\/st\/en\/fo\/rgfo\/planning\/otr.html\" target=\"_blank\">statement<\/a>\u00a0that drew thousands of comments.<\/p>\n<p>Christo\u2019s projects \u2014 from the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.christojeanneclaude.net\/major_reichstag.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">wrapping of the Reichstag<\/a>\u00a0Parliament building in Berlin in 1995 to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.christojeanneclaude.net\/major_gates.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cThe Gates,\u201d<\/a>\u00a0a meandering path of orange awnings through Central Park in New York in 2005 \u2014 have often generated heated debate in advance of their creation.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/11\/08\/us\/United-States-Approves-Christos-Over-the-River-Project-in-Colorado.html\" target=\"_blank\">click to read full at article at NYTimes.com<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The New York Times U.S. Clears Art Project by Christo in Colorado Kevin Moloney for The New York Times By\u00a0KIRK JOHNSON DENVER \u2014 Federal regulators on Monday approved a $50 million installation of anchored fabric over the Arkansas River in southern Colorado by the artist Christo, whose larger-than-life vision has divided environmentalists, residents and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3218\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}