Friday, November 20, 2009

So Long, Jeanne-Claude (1935-2009)

Her husband Christo is the more well-known of the pair, but if you watch these Maysles brothers films, and you really should, you'll see how much they were a life and artistic team, and you'll learn the story of how Jeanne-Claude ran away from her aristocratic French family to create life and art with a poor painter hanging around her family's mansion.



"We always say that each one of our projects is a child of ours, and a father and mother who have many children will never tell you which one is their favorite. If people insist that we have to have a favorite one, then we say, 'Okay, you are right, we do have a favorite one and it’s always the next one.'" --Jeanne Claude

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