A Return to Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s ‘Running Fence’ After 50 Years

A Return to Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s ‘Running Fence’ After 50 Years

Imagine trying to tell the story of “Running Fence” to the uninitiated. It might go something like this: Back in the early 1970s, two little-known immigrant artists landed in rural west county like a pair of aliens descending from a UFO. Driving down gravel roads and knocking on ranch-house doors, they sat at kitchen tables sharing their bizarre vision of running an 18-foot-high white fabric fence 24 1/2 miles across dozens of ranches into the P…