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DU Law Students ROAR To Block Christo's 'Over The River' Project

Posted 02.01.2012

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Law students in the Environmental Law Clinic at the University of Denver Sturm College of Law plan to file a lawsuit on Wednesday in attempt to block ...

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Artist Christo Gives National Gallery 2 Collages

AP | BRETT ZONGKER | Posted 01.08.2012

Read More: Christo, Bureau of Land Management, Video, National Gallery, National Gallery of Art, Ken Salazar, Jeanne-Claude, DC News

WASHINGTON -- The artist Christo is giving two original collages from his upcoming "Over The River" project to the National Gallery of Art in Washingt...

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Sheets Of Fabric Will Be Suspended Over Arkansas River

AP/The Huffington Post | Posted 12.08.2011

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DENVER — The Colorado State Land Board has approved two leases for the artist Christo's proposed Over the River project, which would temporarily sus...

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Eccentric Visual Artist Christo Talks His Latest Project

Posted 10.19.2011

Read More: The Wrapping of the Reichstag, Christo, Video, Art, Over the River Project Arkansas, Christo Architect, Over the River Project, Christo Interview, Christo Artist, Culture News

Christo (one name, like Madonna) is the visual artist who became famous in 2005 for his 23-mile long installation, "The Gates," in Central Park. His n...

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This Week In Art

Posted 09.28.2011

Read More: Christo, George Lucas Copyright, Rick Genest, Wal-Mart Crystal Bridges Donation, Lucas Copyright Battle, Wal-Mart Crystal Bridges, Zombie Boy, Stormtroopers Copyright, Museums, Sculpture, Google Plus Art, Painting, Crystal Bridges, Wal-Mart, Christo Colorado, Arts News

It's been a week of battles on HuffPost Arts. Christo won the legal fight over his Colorado project, George Lucas lost his battle over stormtroopers, ...

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BLM Approves Christo's Arkansas River Project With Few Changes

AP | By CATHERINE TSAI | Posted 09.27.2011

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DENVER -- Artist Christo's plan to suspend huge fabric panels over parts of the heavily rafted Arkansas River in Colorado is largely intact under a ve...

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Group Sues Colo. Parks Division Over Christo's Arkansas River Project

AP | Posted 09.26.2011

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DENVER -- Opponents of the artist Christo's plan to suspend huge fabric panels over stretches of the Arkansas River are suing the Colorado parks divis...

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Fabric Artist Christo To Speak In Vail Today

The Huffington Post | Posted 09.18.2011

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World-renown fabric artist Christo will speak at the Vail Symposium this evening at 5 p.m to discuss his life work and his hope for his Colorado proje...

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In 2007, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam, Netherlands came into possession of the prototype of a quite spectacular piece of architecture: F...

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Chirsto To Suspend Fabric Over Parts Of Arkansas River

AP | Posted 08.25.2011

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SALIDA, Colo. -- The Colorado State Parks Board approved an agreement Friday for the artist Christo to pay $550,000 to state parks to carry out his Ov...

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Art and the Public Domain: Olafur Eliasson, Tomas Saraceno, and Ai Weiwei at the GSD

David Glick | Posted 06.18.2011

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The Divine Comedy, a current exhibition at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, features world renowned artists known for blurring the boundaries be...

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What's missing from Colorado's "Best of..." lists when it comes to visual art

Leanne Goebel | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Hung Liu, Robert Brandenburg, John McEnroe, Bud Shark, Fort Collins MOCA, Energy Effects, Linda Fleming, Christo, Joseph Shaeffer, Rick Dula, Tyler Green, Kate Petley, Tutankhamen: The Golden King, Aspen Art Museum, Sergej Jensen, Objectophilia, Michael Paglia, Robert Benjamin, Creede Small Print National, Mark Bradford, Jerry Saltz, Charles Deas, Jenny Morgan, Bill Amundson, Dale Chisman, Enrique Chagoya, Kyle Macmillan Visual Arts Source, Denver Art Museum, Marie Vlasic, Roberta Smith, Dan Ellier Chapman, Colin Livingston, Moore in the Gardens, Shy Rabbit Contemporary Arts, William Kentridge, Clark Richert, Denver News

I'm not usually keen on top 10 lists or "best of..." rankings particularly when it comes to the visual arts. (How do you rank something so intangible,...

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Christo Plan for Colorado's Arkansas River Wrapped in Controversy

David Frey | Posted 05.25.2011

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If approved, Christo's latest project, Over the River, would suspend industrial-strength fabric over Colorado's Arkansas River.

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Christo's River Art Hearing Wrapped Up By BLM

AP | CATHERINE TSAI | Posted 05.25.2011

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DENVER — Eighteen years after Christo and his late wife envisioned hanging huge fabric panels over the Arkansas River, the artist said Thursday ...

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Christo River Installation

AP | P. SOLOMON BANDA | Posted 05.25.2011

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DENVER — Federal land managers say artist Christo's plan to drape fabric over several miles of the Arkansas River in Colorado would have a signi...

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Christo's Arkansas River Project Faces Hurdles

The Denver Post | John Wenzel | Posted 05.25.2011

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"Over the River," a provocative public-art project along 40 miles of the Arkansas River between Salida and Cañon City, is very much alive, its co-cre...

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Books For $75,000: A Growing Market?

The Wall Street Journal | Alexandra Alter | Posted 05.25.2011

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Luxury publisher Kraken Opus mixed in a pint of Mr. Tendulkar's blood with paper pulp to create the signature page for a book celebrating the renowned...

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The Art World Remembers Jeanne-Claude in Real-Time

Kristi York Wooten | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The Wrapping of the Reichstag, Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Gates, Christo, Jeanne-Claude, Wolfgang Volz, New York, New York News

The husband-wife artists known as Christo and Jeanne-Claude -- responsible for beautiful, temporary works of art such as Valley Curtain and The Gates in Central Park -- were divided on November 18, 2009, when Jeanne-Claude died at age 74

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AT&T Rips Off "The Gates" By Christo And Jeanne-Claude? (VIDEO, POLL)

Posted 05.25.2011

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AT&T may be rethinking their "Rethink Possible" ad campaign after being accused of ripping off the work of artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude. In a ne...

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Jeanne-Claude's Memorial Service. You Are Invited.

Laura Baudo Sillerman | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Laura Baudo Sillerman, The Gates in Central Park, Jeanne-Claude, Women, Art, Obituary, In Memoriam, Christo, Women's Voices for Change, Death & Dying, Healthy Living News

On Monday, April 26, 2010, thousands of celebrants walked through mournful rain to what could only be called a joyful Happening.

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When Historical Partnerships End Before the Work Is Finished

Lapham's Quarterly | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Christo, Marie Curie, Jeanne-Claude, The Mastaba, Christo and Jeanne-Claude, The Gates, Pierre Curie, Artists, Over the River Project for the Arkansas River, Modern Art, Over the River, Style News

For two people seemingly fused together and yet fiercely independent, one of the great misconceptions about Christo and Jeanne-Claude's art was that the artist was solely Christo.

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Jeanne-Claude Dead: Gates Co-Creator, Christo's Wife Dies

AP | ULA ILNYTZKY | Posted 05.25.2011

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NEW YORK — Artist Jeanne-Claude, who created the 2005 Central Park installation "The Gates" and other large scale "wrapping" projects around the...

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The Pope, The Arts, A Nation in Crisis

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The Wrapping of the Reichstag, The Depression, Germany, West Germany, Wpa, Berlin, Christo, Berlin Wall, National Endowment for the Arts, Living, The Pope, East Germany, Politics, World, Jeanne-Claude, Business News

We as a nation have not been upholding ample support for the arts, despite the deep spiritual healing that it can bring -- its joys, its shared experience, its sense of what and who we are.

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Jeanne-Claude, Artist Who Created 'Over The River' Project In Colorado Dies; Work To Continue In Colorado

AP | ULA ILNYTZKY | Posted 05.25.2011

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NEW YORK — Artist Jeanne-Claude, who created the 2005 Central Park installation "The Gates" and other large scale "wrapping" projects around the...

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Mourning Jeanne-Claude: Christo's Extraordinary Partner

Jezebel | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Christo, Gender Equality, Art, Partnerships, Relationships, Jeanne-Claude, Feminism, Culture, Healthy Living News

One of the most salient qualities about the 51-year relationship between Christo and Jeanne-Claude is that they were true partners. Theirs was no arti...

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