Four years earlier, when they had begun gathering the necessary permissions, they were told that the conservative sheep and cattle farmers in that part of California would never agree to let them put ...

With massive installations, Christo encouraged viewers to “perceive the whole environment with new eyes and a new consciousness.” Christo, the conceptual artist famous for his massive, ephemeral ...

The L’Arc de Triomphe, which has suffered vandalism in recent months during the Yellow Vest protests, will be wrapped in shiny fabric in a project conceived by Christo and his posthumous partner ...

Christo was incomparable, and so was Jeanne-Claude. But they were one, born on the same day, in the same year. Christo died last Sunday, 13 days before his 85th birthday—13 days before what would have ...

He can slip from people’s minds, and years may pass between the realization of major works. But in one way or another, most corners of the planet have been touched by the remarkably talented hand of ...

In 1979, artist duo Christo and Jeanne-Claude developed a monumental project meant for New York City’s Central Park, known as The Gates. Comprised of several thousand steel structures (or “gates”) ...

Christo Vladimirov Javacheff died at his home in New York on May 31 Jason Hahn is a former Human Interest and Sports Reporter for PEOPLE. He started at PEOPLE's Los Angeles Bureau as a writer and ...

It happened this past week ... the loss of an artist who was truly all wrapped up in his work. Christo died Sunday of an undisclosed cause in New York City, his home for more than half a century. A ...

The artist Christo and his late wife Jeanne-Claude are famous for their large-scale environmental artworks. They’ve wrapped entire buildings and bridges in fabric. They hung more than 7,000 panels of ...

Artist Christo Vladimirov Javacheff, who was known for creating monumental works of art that played off of their environment in cities around the world, died Sunday at his home in New York City, ...

In Paris this weekend, traffic stopped and crowds gathered to see the Arc de Triomphe transformed: the huge monument wrapped in shimmering, fabric, tied in place with red rope – the colors subtly ...

Since arriving in New York City in 1964, Christo and Jeanne-Claude have always compared their work to that of urban planners. The very fact that their larger-than-life projects are subject to approval ...