Jeanne Claude

Is 'Over The River' Through The Woods?

Posted 03.28.2012

Christo's 'Over The River' project just took another step forward. On Tuesday, commissioners in Fremont County approved a permit for the fabric art pr...

Christo's 'Over The River' Pushed Back Again

Posted 02.22.2012

Fabric artist Christo is yet again pushing back the date for his "Over the River" project which proposes to hang 5.9 miles of aluminum coated fabric p...

Artist Christo Gives National Gallery 2 Collages

AP | BRETT ZONGKER | Posted 01.08.2012

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

'Over The River' Project Waiting On The Locals

AP | CATHERINE TSAI | Posted 01.07.2012

DENVER — Federal land managers announced a final decision Monday approving Christo's art proposal to suspend 5.9 miles worth of silvery, translu...

Christo's River Art Hearing Wrapped Up By BLM

AP | CATHERINE TSAI | Posted 05.25.2011

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

Christo's Arkansas River Project Faces Hurdles

The Denver Post | John Wenzel | Posted 05.25.2011

"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...

Jeanne-Claude Remembered By Art World In NYC

AP | SAMANTHA GROSS | Posted 05.25.2011

NEW YORK — Members of the art world gathered Monday to remember "The Gates" co-creator Jeanne-Claude as a passionate, uncompromising creative fo...

The Art World Remembers Jeanne-Claude in Real-Time

Kristi York Wooten | Posted 05.25.2011

Kristi York Wooten

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

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

Posted 05.25.2011

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...

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

Laura Baudo Sillerman | Posted 11.17.2011

Laura Baudo Sillerman

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

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

AP | ULA ILNYTZKY | Posted 05.25.2011

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

Mourning Jeanne-Claude: Christo's Extraordinary Partner

Jezebel | Posted 11.17.2011

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...

When Historical Partnerships End Before the Work Is Finished

Lapham's Quarterly | Posted 05.25.2011

Lapham's Quarterly

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.

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

AP | ULA ILNYTZKY | Posted 05.25.2011

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

The Pope, The Arts, A Nation in Crisis

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 05.25.2011

Raymond J. Learsy

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.