Collage: Pencil, crayon, wax crayon, cover white, fabric, photograph, map, staples and tape on cardboard Private collection, Switzerland. This artwork is registered in the archive of the Christo and ...

“Valley Curtain” was first planned for the Aspen area, and a drawing from that iteration of the project – which was only recently unearthed from the Christo and Jeanne-Claude collection – will be on ...

Christo's environmental-art projects often bear an inverse relationship to most artists' aims and techniques. While many work alone to create art for galleries and private collections, Christo's ...

RIFLE — Imagine driving along the highway in August of 1972 and seeing 4.5 acres of fabric strung across the valley from peak to peak. The orange material created a contrast between the blue skies ...

Solely by luck did Leo Thomas “Teo” Prinster happen to have a Polaroid camera sitting in his car. It was Aug. 10, 1972. Prinster, son of one of the founding members of Colorado grocery chain City ...

Prints and multiples, Offset Lithograph Poster. This rare vintage 1972 poster was acquired from the private collection of the renowned philanthropists, collectors and art historians Jacob and Aviva ...

On Sunday, May 31, the Twitter account of renowned artist Christo announced that he had died at his home in New York at the age of 84. No cause of death was revealed. Christo had an intimate ...

For nearly twenty years, conceptual artist Christo and his late wife, Jeanne-Claude, made plans for the “Over the River” project, a series of sun shades that hopefully will be installed in a few years ...

It doesn’t take a giant orange curtain or huge metallic panels to appeal to Dan Telleen’s sense of aesthetic. Telleen, a Vail jewelry maker, appreciates all kinds of art. His house is full of masks, ...