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"Artists Christo and Jeanne- Claude conceived the idea of suspending huge swathes of fabric over a river back in 1992. They scouted dozens of Western locations before settling on a mountainous stretch of the Arkansas River, a southern Colorado playground for whitewater rafters in view of old U.S. 50. The couple, both 73, are still waiting for a Bureau of Land Management permit to install their 'Over...
WASHINGTON.- The Smithsonian American Art Museum has acquired Running Fence, Sonoma and Marin Counties, California, 1972-76, A Documentation Exhibition, the definitive record of the major early work by world-renowned artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude. The most lyrical and spectacular of Christo and Jeanne-Claude's epic projects was the installation of the Running
The Smithsonian American Art Museum has acquired a collection of artwork and research materials from the artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude that document “Running Fence.”
By LON WAGNER By Lon Wagner The Virginian-Pilot They look like something the environmental artist Christo might have done. Elegant in their sheer starkness. Tall and narrow and white, and dead.
As the star exhibit in Tracey Emin’s Royal Academy show is accidentally smashed to smithereens, Sophie Morris relives the excruciating incidents and mishaps that left 12 masterpieces in tatters… Drawing for Surrounded Islands, Christo and Jeanne-Claude The Bulgarian artist Christo, who works with his wife Jeanne-Claude, gained acclaim for surrounding 11 islands off Miami with polypropylene. One [...]...
Christo and Jeanne Claude in Madison? I wish. Months ago the city fenced off a section of Wingra Park behind an ugly plastic snowfence, ripped up the grass and started excavating. The project had something to do with protecting the lake from storm water runoff in the neighborhood, but work seems to have stopped for some reason. Right now, weeds are growing behind the fence, and it's kind of an eyesore...
Five things worth knowing today - Majora Carter, Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Arianna Huffington, and scores of others gather for the 2008 Aspen Ideas Festival. - Japan opens Mt. Fuji to climbers with a ceremony at Chinowa shrine. - Brewmaster Garrett...
In what's being billed as New York's largest public art project since Christo and Jean-Claude's "The Gates" back in winter of 2005, Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson has installed four waterfalls, ranging in height from 90 to 120 that will appear...
Thank goodness for Brooklyn Based and her fabulous tip sheets. Subscribe to her blogletter now and hear about all the cool stuff. The largest art installation to hit New York since Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s Gates will be Olafur Eliasson’s New York City Waterfalls. The four man-made structures, ranging in height from 90 to 120 feet along the East River, will drop thousands of gallons of river water...
"New York City is now 10 days away from the unveiling of “Waterfalls,” the much anticipated (and hyped) $15 million public art project by the Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson. The project, the biggest public art installation since “The Gates,” the Christo and Jeanne-Claude work in Central Park in 2005, is already being hyped, with Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg saying the work could evoke the awe...
The Gates Saturday, May 10, 2 PM FREE In 2005, Christo and Jeanne-Claude completed The Gates, one of the largest art installations created in history. Beginning [...]
The sides of the 4th Street Bridge at Lorena are draped in blue tarp reinterpreting Christo and Jeanne-Claude's 1972-1976 "Running Fence." It's environmental public art through the eyes of the parallel universe known as "the Eastside."
