On Feb. 12, 2005, the husband-wife artist duo Christo and Jeanne-Claude unveiled the biggest, splashiest and most talked-about public art project New York City had ever seen. “The Gates ...
Bulgarian-born Christo -- full name Christo Vladimirov Javacheff -- died in 2020, 11 years after his French wife Jeanne-Claude Denat de Guillebon passed away. The artists were only interested in ...
Christo, The Gates (Project for Central Park ... It also helped that the cost of installing the sprawling Land art piece—$16m—would be paid exclusively by the artists rather than all or ...
In 1961, the Bulgarian-born artist Christo and his future wife, Jeanne-Claude, adorned the docks of Cologne, Germany, with a collection of stacked oil drums and rolls of industrial paper wrapped ...
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 ...
In February 2005, Central Park was transformed into an orange-hued wonderland, as 7,503 gates with flowing fabric panels lined the park’s walkways. The installation, which spanned 23 miles (37 ...