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 ...
Paris and Berlin are celebrating the anniversaries this year of iconic art installations that saw some of their most prominent landmarks wrapped in fabric by the late artists known as Christo and ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...