On May 31st, 2020, the artist Christo Vladimirov Javacheff, better known simply as Christo, passed away at home in New York at the age of 84. Immediately after, some people posed the question “if all ...
The artist Christo walks on his monumental installation "The Floating Piers" in northern Italy during a media preview in 2016. (Filippo Monteforte / Getty Images/AFP) Christo, the artist whose massive ...
ISEO, Italy-- It's taken nearly 2,000 years, but regular folks will soon get to feel what it is like to walk on water thanks to a project by the artist Christo, who may or may not have had his ...
For Marin artist Kay Carlson, Christo’s “Running Fence,” which ran through Marin and Sonoma counties in 1976, was the most spectacular and moving art installation she’d ever seen. The epic ...
Artist JR will take over Pont Neuf, the French capital’s oldest surviving bridge, for a vast installation next summer, the City of Paris has announced. The project is inspired by another ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about travel and food. So I love forks in the road. Works by Christo are like creative comets—every few years they briefly ...
Christo, the Bulgarian installation artist who played an integral role in the birth and growth of Miami’s art scene and its worldwide reputation at large, died yesterday at his home in New York at the ...
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Federal officials today said the Bureau of Land Management’s Royal Gorge Field Office has released the record of decision approving artist Christo’s plan to ...
The European Space Agency’s Sentinel-2A satellite captured this time-lapse of the construction of Bulgarian–born artist Christo’s latest art installation in Lake Iseo in northern Italy. “The Floating ...
It’s not our Arkansas River, unfortunately, but Colorado’s section that the installation artist Christo and his late wife, Jeanne-Claude, designed that could be covered in six miles of silk fabric, ...
Construction of Christo’s “Big Air Package” at the Gasometer Oberhausen, Germany. February 2013. (Unless indicated, all photographs by Wolfgang Volz & courtesy of Christo.) Christo’s latest project, ...
It’s a wrap, six decades in the making. One of Paris’ most popular attractions, the Arc de Triomphe, is about to be wrapped in silver and blue. The project, a posthumous art installation conceived by ...