and the work went down not only in art but city history as well. The artists dated the work 1979–2005 in recognition of time and effort spent between conception and execution. Christo (1935 ...
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 ...
monumental public art model. Jean-Claude passed away in 2009, and Christo in 2020, leaving them unable to witness this digitized re-creation. Their nephew and project director, Vladimir Yavachev ...
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 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 ...
NSU Art Museum curator Bonnie Clearwater stands in front of a panoramic image from 1983 of one of the islands covered in pink by artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude. NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale ...
New York, Paris, Berlin to mark anniversaries of iconic Christo art New York, Paris and Berlin are celebrating the anniversaries this year of iconic art installations that saw some of their most ...
On May 7, 1983, artist duo Christo and Jeanne-Claude and their team got it done: “Surrounded Islands,” 11 small islands perfectly outlined in hot pink. At the NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale ...