Tag: Christo and Jeanne-Claude

  • Michael Visocchi – interview

    Scottish artist Michael Visocchi talks about his commission to create a sculpture for South Georgia, one of the most isolated places on Earth, the pandemic and 77 crosses he is – willingly – bearing

  • Christo: ‘Art is useless’

    Famed for wrapping massive structures, great bodies of water and chunks of coastline as well as monumental  sculptures built from oil drums, Christo, who collaborated with his wife Jeanne-Claude until her death in 2009 – and still talks about her…

  • Christo’s Gates: a New Yorker reflects

    What began in 1979 with a few drawings has finally materialised into a huge ‘happening’ in New York, with the opening of The Gates: Central Park, New York, 1979-2005