Christo

Edited in close collaboration with Christo, this Cahiers d’Art issue focuses on in & out architecture through a selection of indoor spaces (Show Windows, Store Fronts, Wrapped floors and Staircases) a

Decades before he and his late wife Jeanne-Claude were draping the Reichstag in cloth, Christo (born 1935) was creating much more modestly-sized packages in his Paris studio. These early objects, deve

Christo and Jeanne-Claude (b. Gabrovo, Bulgaria, 1935 /b. Casablanca, 1935, d. New York, 2009) were one of the most popular artist couples of our time. More than virtually any other team of partners i

The Universe of Christo and Jeanne-Claude: A concise history of their art The work of the artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude transcends borders, resists categorizing, and embraces contradicti

In September 1976, a curtain of shimmering white was unfurled across the hills of rural northern California, running unbroken for 24.5 miles from Sonoma County to the Pacific Ocean. The artistic visio

Christo and his late wife Jeanne-Claude, who died in 2009, have been drawing a great deal of attention for years with their monumental projects. In 2020 many thousands of art lovers will once again be

Christo and Jeanne-Claude are renowned above all for their ephemeral yet monumental interventions in landscapes and cities. Fabric is a defining feature of their projects; they use it to wrap, conceal

For the first time a comprehensive account of Christo and Jeanne-Claude's urban projects is provided in this book. It presents preparatory drawings, collages and models for many little-known works fro

Koldo Chamorro was a self-taught photographer since 1965, when he was awarded a scholarship in 1972 for photographic studies abroad, thus being able to work with Ansel Adams, Brassai and Ernst Haas, a

CHRISTO AND JEANNE-CLAUDE UNWRAPPEDIn 1981 two artists -- Christo and Jeanne-Claude -- proposed an installation in New York’s Central Park that would span twenty-three miles. They received a 18

On the very day of his wedding to the beautiful Mercedes, a young merchant sailor named Edmond Dantès is falsely imprisoned for life, laying to waste his plans of marriage and hard-earned fortune. F

A vibrantly illustrated biography about visionary artist Christo, encouraging creativity, perseverance, and appreciating the beauty all around usChristo (1935-2020) and Jeanne-Claude (1935-2009) are renowned for their large-scale, ambitious art installations that wrapped landmarks and swaths of land in fabric, including Berlin's Wrapped Reichstag, Paris's The Pont Neuf Wrapped, and concluding with New York City's The Gates in Central Park (2005). This lively biography chronicles Christo's humble childhood in Soviet-controlled Bulgaria--under a regime that suppressed individuality and creativity--to his international fame as a bold (and controversial) innovator in the art world. Christo discovered an early love of art and found a way to make a living out of his passion by wrapping bottles, cans, stacks of magazines, and even an air conditioner. When he met his wife, Jeanne-Claude, they moved to New York City as undocumented immigrants and became equal partners in both life and work--he,

Living with Matisse, Picasso, and Christo explores one of the most ambitious, and yet largely unknown, private collections of twentieth-century Western art, and its charismatic creator Theodor “Teto”

The Mastaba on the LakeChristo and Jeanne-Claude’s 20-meter-high Mastaba in London’s Hyde Park From June 19 to September 23, 2018, London’s Hyde Park will host Christo and Jeanne-Claude's newest insta