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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...