(Editor’s note: In our June issue we ran two articles by Denver author Keith Howard on the artists Christo and Jeanne Claude. One of our readers, who is opposed to the project proposed for the Arkansas River, Over the River, asked if we would reprint the following editorial from the editor of Landscape Architecture magazine offering his viewpoint.)
Environmental artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude want to cover up a white-water river in the Rocky Mountains with 5.9 miles of silvered cloth. Should the people of Colorado let them do it?