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Around 400 B.C., the Greek painter Zeuxis was said to have painted grapes so lifelike that birds came to peck at them.
Those dueling Greek painters return in a new guise, as Mario Merz, in the Zeuxis role, covers a glass table with an array of fresh vegetables and fruit, changed daily by a New York caterer ( Spiral Table , 1982), while Christo, playing Parrhasios, conceals the familiar Cézannesque shapes--wine bottle, vase, etc.--under a drapery of canvas ( Package on a Table , 1961).
Zeuxis tried to lift the curtain, and lost the contest.