On October 31, 1991, a fatal accident in Japan brought a tragic close to “The Umbrellas Japan–USA,” a massive bicontinental ...

The artist Christo walks on his monumental installation "The Floating Piers" in northern Italy during a media preview in 2016. (Filippo Monteforte / Getty Images/AFP) Christo, the artist whose massive ...

Christo, the artist who wrapped Paris` Pont Neuf in golden cloth and Miami`s Biscayne Bay islands in pink, now plans to dot Japan with blue umbrellas. At the same time that he hopes to place more than ...

It's Christo time again. Every few years the world's best-known site-specific artist rolls out a few thousand bolts of bright, plasticky fabric and concocts a giant eye-catcher in some outdoor place ...

Christo, the artist who wrapped Paris’s Pont Neuf in golden cloth and Miami’s Biscayne Bay islands in pink, now plans to dot Japan with blue umbrellas. At the same time that he hopes to place more ...

I spent my early time in the city laboring over scale models for the artists. By Fran Leadon Mr. Leadon is an architect. The first job I had after moving to New York City, in November 1996, was ...

LOS ANGELES — Christo unfurled his latest environmental artwork yesterday as a lush green countryside in Japan blossomed with 1,340 blue umbrellas, and the California portion of the project was poised ...

A U.S.-Japan outdoor exhibit of giant umbrellas, closed after one umbrella killed a woman in California, claimed its second victim Thursday – a Japanese crane operator killed by an electric shock.

This lot contains a two-part print depicting the 1984-91 project The Umbrellas, in which Christo and Jeanne-Claude installed 3,100 massive umbrellas in Japan and California simultaneously. Each ...

Christo, the artist whose massive environmental public arts projects created in collaboration with his late wife Jeanne-Claude gained global renown, died Sunday at his home in New York City. He was 84 ...