Artist Jeanne-Claude Honored With Massive Met Memorial | The New York Observer.

By Leon Neyfakh

“Yesterday afternoon the Metropolitan Museum of Art hosted a massive, three-ring circus of a memorial for the artist Jeanne-Claude, who died in November at the age of 74. Thousands of people turned up despite the rain, with top closies in the Met’s auditorium, second-order closies watching a live feed in the Temple of Dendur, and everyone else–the former buyer from the Museum of Contemporary Art in San Diego bookstore, for example, who years ago sold some special editions on behalf of Jeanne-Claude and Christo–taking in the proceedings on a big screen at the Boathouse in Central Park. The service lasted about an hour and a half, and featured a lineup of speakers that included Michael Bloomberg and former Met director Philippe de Montebello, plus critics Leo Steinberg, Calvin Tompkins, Paul Goldberger, and Annie Cohen-Solal.”