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‘The Gates’ was a huge art sensation 20 years ago — and it wasn’t the only vision Christo and Jeanne-Claude had for NYC
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 ...
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Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s 'The Gates' revived in AR and Exhibition
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 ...
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Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s Iconic Public Artwork Gets an A.R. Revival
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 ...
‘It’s a living work’: ‘Surrounded Islands’ endures at this Fort Lauderdale museum
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 ...
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Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s The Gates revived, in exhibition and augmented reality, 20 years later
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 ...
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New York, Paris, Berlin to mark anniversaries of iconic Christo art
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 ...