With massive installations, Christo encouraged viewers to “perceive the whole environment with new eyes and a new consciousness.” Christo, the conceptual artist famous for his massive, ephemeral ...

For nearly twenty years, conceptual artist Christo and his late wife, Jeanne-Claude, made plans for the “Over the River” project, a series of sun shades that hopefully will be installed in a few years ...

Christo Vladimirov Javacheff died at his home in New York on May 31 Jason Hahn is a former Human Interest and Sports Reporter for PEOPLE. He started at PEOPLE's Los Angeles Bureau as a writer and ...

They cloaked Berlin’s Reichstag in fabric, shaded Japan and Southern California with thousands of umbrellas and installed more than 7,500 orange vinyl gates in New York’s Central Park, creating ...

The L’Arc de Triomphe, which has suffered vandalism in recent months during the Yellow Vest protests, will be wrapped in shiny fabric in a project conceived by Christo and his posthumous partner ...

Christo was incomparable, and so was Jeanne-Claude. But they were one, born on the same day, in the same year. Christo died last Sunday, 13 days before his 85th birthday—13 days before what would have ...

It happened this past week ... the loss of an artist who was truly all wrapped up in his work. Christo died Sunday of an undisclosed cause in New York City, his home for more than half a century. A ...

He can slip from people’s minds, and years may pass between the realization of major works. But in one way or another, most corners of the planet have been touched by the remarkably talented hand of ...

In Paris this weekend, traffic stopped and crowds gathered to see the Arc de Triomphe transformed: the huge monument wrapped in shimmering, fabric, tied in place with red rope – the colors subtly ...

Christo, the puckishly dead-serious and ferociously independent artist known for his vast environmental works, has died at home in New York City, aged 84, of undisclosed causes. He leaves behind a ...