Tag: The Gates

  • 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