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Christo and Jeanne-Claude Are Back With Another Epic Installation

Posted 03.23.2013 | Arts
Read More: Christo, Installation Art, Giant Installtion, Christo Installation, Big-Air-Package, Christo and Jeanne-Claude, The Gates, Sculpture, Big Air Package, Arts News

Imagine the inside of a white balloon. Now blow that balloon up to 177,000 cubic meters, and imagine yourself standing inside this massive envelope of...

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Brooke Shields To Join 'Army Wives'

Posted 01.24.2013 | TV
Read More: TV Canada, Once Upon a Time, John Pyper-Ferguson, Brooke SHields, TV News, Ken Marino, The Gates, Aasif Mandvi, Larry Manetti, Steve Carell, Tv Casting, Hawaii Five-0, The Office, Army Wives, TV News

Brooke Shields will join Lifetime's "Army Wives" for Season 7, the network announced Thursday. She'll star alongside other new faces for the upcomi...

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John Stamos & Mark Consuelos To Visit 'The New Normal'

Posted 12.19.2012 | TV
Read More: Mark Consuelos, Michael J. Fox, Brian Klugman, TV News, Bones, John Stamos, Bradley Whitford, Michael J Fox Comedy, Wendell Pierce, Do No Harm, TV Canada, Sendhil Ramamurthy, Kathleen Rose Perkins, The Gates, The New Normal, Beauty and the Beast, Tv Casting, Diana Maria Riva, Toni Trucks, Justin Chon, Go On, John Grisetti, TV News

John Stamos and Mark Consuelos are headed for "The New Normal," according to EW. Stamos is playing a co-worker of Jane's (Ellen Barkin) who finds ...

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Times Square Desert-Scape

Gabrielle Selz | Posted 06.18.2012 | Arts
Read More: Times Square, Play the Building, The Gates, Rockefeller Center, Starn Brothers, Anish Kapoor, Art, Public Space, Christo, Times Square Alliance, Death Valley, Video Art, Sky Mirror, David Byrne, The Canyon of Times Square, Buoy, New York City, Arts News
Gabrielle Selz

The place, ablaze with lights and crowds, just begs to be turned into an art arena. It's the exact opposite of a serene gallery or museum space. And it absolutely requires a display that reveals this dilemma. How to grab and hold a viewer's attention amid all that hustle?

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Happy Birthday, Christo And Jeanne-Claude!

The Huffington Post | Priscilla Frank | Posted 06.13.2012 | Arts
Read More: Christo, Love Story, Video, Land Art, Christo and Jeanne-Claude, The Gates, Ephemeral Art, Art Duos, Art in America, Architecture, Environmental Art, Artist Birthdays, Female Artists, Slidepollajax, Nature and Art, Arts News

Husband-and-wife artist duo Christo and Jeanne-Claude were both born 77 years ago today. The lovers traveled the world wrapping cliffs in fabric and g...

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8 Canceled TV Shows Betty White Could Have Saved (PICTURES)

The Huffington Post | Katie Honan & Ross Luippold | Posted 05.25.2011 | Comedy
Read More: Outlaw, Betty White, The Gates, Comedy Slideshows, Canceled Tv Shows, Undercovers, Slidepollajax, My Generation, Lone Star, Rubicon, The Whole Truth, Huge, Comedy News

Television shows get canceled for many different reasons, from low ratings to high production costs. But if there's one thing we've learned over the l...

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The Art World Remembers Jeanne-Claude in Real-Time

Kristi York Wooten | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York
Read More: The Wrapping of the Reichstag, Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Gates, Christo, Jeanne-Claude, Wolfgang Volz, New York, New York News
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

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Curtains Down on a History of Patronage

Bettina Korek | Posted 05.25.2011 | Los Angeles
Read More: Page Six, Kirk Varnedoe, Art, AT&T, The New Yorker, Public Art, R.E. Allen, Christo and Jeanne-Claude, The Gates, Possibilities, Installation, Central Park, Artforum, Moma, Community, Artists, High and Low: Modern Art and Popular Culture, Adam Gopnik, Los Angeles News
Bettina Korek

This is an example of a corporation and an advertising agency (BBDO in this case) taking from artists and not feeling any responsibility to give back to the community.

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

Posted 05.25.2011 | New York
Read More: Christo, Central Park, AT&T Commercial, Video, Rethink Possible, The Gates, Jeanne-Claude, Poll, AT&T, New York News

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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Artlog's Top Art & Culture Picks

Artlog | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York
Read More: Ronald Lauder, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Marina Abramovic Moma, Morgan Library, Williamsburg, Estee Lauder, Artists, Moma, German, New York City, New York, Summer Vacation, Art Gallery, Art, Albrecht-Durer, Nyc, Summer, The Gates, Pace Gallery, Slidepollajax, Dance, Rooftop Gardens, Tea Party, New York News
Artlog

For those of you who have yet to show off your legs this summer, perhaps you can learn a lesson or two from Albrecht Dürer's idea of beauty.

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When Historical Partnerships End Before the Work Is Finished

Lapham's Quarterly | Posted 05.25.2011 | Style
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
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.

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

AP | ULA ILNYTZKY | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York
Read More: Christo, Jeanne Claude Dead, NYC Arts, The Gates, Jeanne-Claude, Central Park, Artists, Jeanne Claude Dies, New York, New York News

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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Public Art In New York: Pick Your Favorite! (PHOTOS)

Posted 05.25.2011 | New York
Read More: Photos, Slidepoll, Quiz, Duke Riley War, Public Art, Duke Riley Queens, The Gates, Jeff Koons, Magnan Projects, Street Art, Duke Riley Public Art, Duke Riley, Poll, Pictures, Art in New York, Ny Art, Telectroscope, New York News

Last week the art world was agog over Duke Riley's Queens Museum naval battle entitled "Those About to Die Salute You." Was Riley's work the greate...

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