The late artists’ desert masterpiece is unrealised half a century after it was conceived, its execution a daunting ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

They cloaked Berlin’s Reichstag in fabric, shaded Japan and Southern California with thousands of umbrellas and installed more than 7,500 orange vinyl gates in New York’s Central Park, creating ...

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 ...