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Photos of “Arc de Triomphe, Wrapped,” Before the Silvery Fabric Comes Down

Avatar photo by Johanna Sluiter September 30, 2021September 30, 2021

The project required 269,000 square feet of silvery-blue polypropylene fabric, 32,300 square feet of red rope, and the combined efforts of 1,200 workers.

Posted inOpinion

Give Jeanne-Claude Her Rightful Credit

Avatar photo by Hall W. Rockefeller September 22, 2021September 22, 2021

Sadly, though by no means surprisingly, there is precedence for this female erasure. Women have been and continue to be the executors of the invisible, unpaid, unaccredited labor that makes much of the world run smoothly.

Posted inNews

Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s Personal Collection Heads to Auction

by Cassie Packard December 24, 2020December 22, 2020

Sotheby’s is auctioning artworks that were once in the pair’s home, including kitschy cookie jars that Andy Warhol collected.

Posted inFilm

From Marlon Riggs to Christo and Jeanne-Claude, What Films to Stream This September

Avatar photo by Dan Schindel September 1, 2020November 5, 2020

How to see works by pioneers of queer cinema, multiple restorations of ’90s gems, and standouts of New Taiwanese Cinema.

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The Charm and Conviction of a Christo and Jeanne-Claude Exhibition

Avatar photo by Johanna Sluiter July 31, 2020November 5, 2020

The show at the Pompidou Center demonstrates that the artists’ reputation as “ephemeral architects” or “temporary monument” makers is incomplete, if not altogether incorrect.

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Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s Dream to Walk on Water

by Bedatri D. Choudhury May 16, 2019May 16, 2019

A new documentary reveals the passion and labor that went into creating artworks that look too fantastical to be true.

Posted inArt

Encountering Christo’s Massive Sculpture on the Serpentine Lake

Avatar photo by Olivia McEwan July 9, 2018

Christo’s giant floating sculpture, “The London Mastaba,” sits on the Serpentine Lake in Hyde Park as tourists on paddle boats circle around.

Posted inArt

Why Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s Colorado Project Succeeded Despite Its Failure

Avatar photo by Adam Milner January 31, 2017January 7, 2021

“Over the River” was never about the sculpture, it was about the attempt.

Posted inOpinion

Christo, Trump, and the Art World’s Emptiest Protest Yet

Avatar photo by Benjamin Sutton January 26, 2017January 27, 2017

Christo has abandoned a project that he and his late collaborator and wife Jeanne-Claude spent decades fighting for, ostensibly as a protest against President Donald Trump.

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Shooting Down the Purely Aesthetic Aspirations of Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s Piers

Avatar photo by Mike Watson June 30, 2016June 30, 2016

SULZANO, Italy — I decided to make the journey from my home in Rome to Sulzano in northern Italy to judge the merits and pitfalls of Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s “Floating Piers” — an almost two-mile long floating walkway situated on Lake Iseo — for myself.

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Judge Approves Christo’s Controversial Colorado Project

by Laura C. Mallonee January 5, 2015January 8, 2015

It looks like artist Christo may soon be “hanging those sheets over the river,” as a federal judge once described a proposed art project in southern Colorado that has stirred much debate.

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Is the World’s Largest Permanent Sculpture a Monument to Our Times?

by Stephanie Bailey November 26, 2012November 29, 2012

LONDON — What will the future think of the world when they look back on the marks we have left? Will it be with the same reverence with which we gaze on the Acropolis hill and the Parthenon that sits upon it as a symbol of civilization and democracy or something less forthcoming?

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