The Lost Muse

The tactile immediacy with which the artistic duo Christo transformed monumental architectural and natural environments was best summarized by Jeanne-Claude when explaining why their elaborate, labor-intensive projects could only be seen for an extremely brief time: “If someone were to tell you, ‘Oh, look on the right, there is a rainbow.’ You will never answer, ‘I will look at it tomorrow.'”

With the galactic fireworks of the Leonid Meteor Shower, a rare rainbow left us last night. She is already missed…