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Christo

April 2024

  • Literally embracing nature … Surrounded Islands in Miami by Jeanne-Claude and Christo.

    The great women's art bulletin
    From Banksy’s green leaves to Miami’s pink islands, public art’s a party – and everyone’s invited!

    Yoko Ono hung wishes from trees. Jeanne-Claude and Christo coated entire coastlines. But their work had one thing in common: it made us think about what we should cherish – and what we are losing

June 2022

  • Christo during the erection of 26 Oil Barrels (1961) in the Paris studio of photographer Jean-Dominique Lajoux

    Christo before Christo: Paris exhibition reveals artist’s earlier works

    Exhibition to show items the artist experimented with before larger wrapped pieces that defined him

October 2021

  • The Arc de Triomphe in its shimmering wrapper in September 2021.

    It’s a wrap: Christo’s final art project follows Paris triumph

    As the covers come off the Arc de Triomphe, work begins to realise an ambitious project in the desert and secure the artist’s legacy

September 2021

  • Abseilers begin to wrap the Arc de Triomphe monument in Paris

    Work begins on wrapping Arc de Triomphe for Christo artwork

    Operation combining art and engineering on a massive scale fulfils dream of late artist couple

June 2021

  • Christo Javacheff's drawing

    L’Arc de Triomphe, Wrapped: Christo’s dream being realised

    Work begins next month to swathe monument in blue fabric a year after Bulgarian-born artist’s death

February 2021

  • The Bulgarian artist Christo in front of his artwork Mastaba, built on the Serpentine in London, June 2018.

    'Call Andy Warhol': Christo diary extracts published to shed light on artist's life

    Diaries of artist who wrapped Pont Neuf and Berlin Reichstag reveal illustrious circle of New York friends

1 June 2020

  • In 1969, Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s Wrapped Coast at Sydney’s Little Bay was the first large-scale public art project presented anywhere in the world and the first time an international contemporary artist had created a major new work in Australia.

    Christo's Wrapped Coast: how the monumental Australian work was made – and changed art history

  • Landscapes transformed … Christo’s pathways across Lake Iseo, Italy.

    Christo: 'His gorgeous abstractions made you gawp with disbelief'

  • Christo in front of the wrapped Reichstag, in Berlin, Germany, in 1995.

    Christo obituary

  • Christo at The Floating Piers, a work he made with Jeanne-Claude, on Lake Iseo, Italy, in 2016.

    Christo: a life in pictures

May 2020

  • Christo unveiling his first UK outdoor work, a 20 metres high installation on Serpentine Lake in London, in 2018.

    Christo, artist who wrapped the Reichstag, dies aged 84

    Bulgarian creator of large-scale public artworks worked in collaboration with wife Jeanne-Claude

September 2018

  • Vanessa Thorpe

    Farewell, Christo. You offered a lovely summer gift

    Vanessa Thorpe
    Many children will have enjoyed his Hyde Park work. Now take the arts into schools

August 2018

  • Mind the gap … Doris Salcedo’s Tate Modern crack.

    Shortcuts
    ‘A menace to life and limb’: the artworks that have injured – and killed

    A visitor to an Anish Kapoor exhibition has ended up in hospital after falling into one of his artworks, Descent Into Limbo. But should art be slightly dangerous?

June 2018

  • The London Mastaba by Christo, on Hyde Park’s Serpentine lake.

    Christo: London Mastaba; Tomma Abts – reviews

    Christo’s floating installation makes a big first impression, but can’t match the brilliance of Tomma Abts’s canvases
  • Bang the drum … the London Mastaba by Christo, on Hyde Park’s Serpentine lake, is his first UK outdoor work.

    The London Mastaba review – a giant geometric bath toy

    More rock festival stage than political statement, Christo’s giant oil barrel sculpture on Hyde Park’s Serpentine leaves our critic wondering what the fish all think
  • The Mastaba by Christo with swans in London’s Hyde park.

    'Alien mothership': Christo's mastaba floats on London's Serpentine

    A 600-tonne, 20-metre high work made from 7,000 oil barrels is unveiled on lake in Hyde Park

April 2018

  • Roll out the barrels: a plan of the London Mastaba, by Christo.

    He has wrapped the Reichstag – now the artist Christo is heading to the UK with 7,506 barrels

    Christo and Jeanne-Claude, his late wife, became famous for their extraordinary sculptures, including one that made Italians feel they were walking on water. Now he’s coming to Britain, what surprises can we expect?

February 2017

  • ‘We practised on a castle in Hannover’ … Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s Wrapped Reichstag in 1995.

    How we made
    How we made the Wrapped Reichstag

    Christo: ‘It took 24 years and we had to negotiate with six different presidents. Then it only stayed up for two weeks’

January 2017

  • Jonathan Jones

    Jonathan Jones on art
    Christo cancels artwork to protest Trump – but we need his vision

    Jonathan Jones
    The legendary land artist has wrapped up a Colorado installation after decades of planning in disgust at Donald Trump. But artists must allow their work itself to be the dissenting voice

June 2016

  • View from the installation

    Walking on water: The Floating Piers – in pictures

    Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s installation of 100,000 square metres of shimmering yellow fabric floating on Lake Iseo in northern Italy
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