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 ...

Here's how you can re-experience this beloved public artwork from 2005.

At the NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale, a small gallery dedicated to broadcast news coverage of the artwork installation plays on vintage televisions. Museum director Bonnie Clearwater laughed at an ...

Photo by Wolfgang Volz/ Christo and Jeanne-Claude Foundation In February 2005, the artist duo unveiled 7,503 panels suspended from metal arches across 23 miles of park pathways. Although the ...

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 ...

m of fabric, with all the assembly completed by 600 workers hired and paid for by the artists. “Christo and Jeanne-Claude never wanted to have their projects redone,” Yavachev adds.

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 ...

Vladimir Yavachev, a nephew of the artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude, shows AFP the New York studio where they worked Vladimir Yavachev, a nephew of the artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude ...