Christo's Running Fence - 45 years later. An interview with Eric Stanley, Historian, Sonoma County Museum.

The San Francisco Experience

EpisodeApr 1, 202128m

Christo's Running Fence - 45 years later. An interview with Eric Stanley, Historian, Sonoma County Museum.

The San Francisco Experience

EpisodeApr 1, 202128m

Running Fence was a 24.5 mile massive art installation on the hills of Sonoma and Marin Counties, ending with a dive into the Pacific Ocean. Rated by the Smithsonian Institution as one of the most important artworks of the second half of the 20th Century, Christo and his wife Jeanne Claude donated the work to the Smithsonian about 10 years ago. But a significant collection of Running Fence artifacts and other Christo works is housed at the Sonoma County Museum in Santa Rosa. It is a fascinating story of how 59 Sonoma County ranchers were persuaded by an avant garde artist team to host the art installation in 1976.

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We are a "deep dive" news podcast, for Americans who get their news from the Internet. Our mission is to give the listener succinct, fact based analysis both non-ideological and independent from a California, Silicon Valley perspective. Your host Jim Herlihy is a published author: his novel “Deceit and Dirty Money” is available on line. He served as President of the SF Public Library Commission 1992 - 1996. While working in Latin America, he was a stringer for The Economist, The Times and the BBC. Jim serves as a director on two SF sister city boards : Bangalore, India and Cork, Ireland.

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