The National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., featured a show on "minimalism," in which sometimes quite ordinary objects are offered as art. Included, for example, was a wrapped package, in brown paper and string, entitled "Package," by Christo. According to the Washington Post, when gallery technician Glenn Perry was installing some of the exhibits with the aid of his tool cart, "several patrons and critics" gathered around the cart and studied it, as if it were an exhibit, before Perry finished his work and rolled the cart away.

[Ed.: Christo is famous for "wrapping" large structures such as buildings with fabric, and for constructing gigantic umbrellas in the California desert. A Japanese tourist was killed when one of these umbrellas broke free during a period of high winds, offering yet another reason to stay away from modern art.]

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