Christo and Jeanne-Claude, a husband-wife team of artists, first came up with the idea for a giant sculpture made out of multi-colored oil barrels in the late 1970s, not long after the famous 1973 oil ...

The Christo and Jeanne-Claude Foundation has denied reports that the duo's Mastaba project is set to be realised in the UAE as it still doesn't have government authorisation. Despite reports in ...

With more than a few groundbreaking works of art under his belt at 82-years-old, Christo still radiates a tireless energy that shows no signs of slowing down. He still sketches everything by hand ...

He is best known for wrapping the Reichstag in fabric and lining California highways with yellow umbrellas - but Christo's latest, almost inconceivable project will dwarf them both. The artist will ...

This set of three lithographs document an upcoming project, "The Mastaba, A Project for Abu Dhabi." To be comprised of 410,000 multicolored barrels, and measuring 492 feet high—eclipsing the pyramids ...

Since arriving in New York City in 1964, Christo and Jeanne-Claude have always compared their work to that of urban planners. The very fact that their larger-than-life projects are subject to approval ...

Bulgarian-born artist Christo Vladimirov Javacheff, who achieved fame for the massive public installations he completed with his late wife Jeanne-Claude Denat de Guillebon, died yesterday, May 31, ...

Artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude conceived their “Mastaba” -- a postmodern pyramid made of oil barrels -- as their largest and only permanent work. But since its conception in 1977, the project has ...

On April 3, the world-renowned artist Christo began construction of his first major public work in the United Kingdom, The Mastaba. The stand-alone, pyramidal sculpture composed of 55-gallon oil ...