In celebration of the upcoming Christo installation on the Arc de Triomphe, I am dedicating this post to Christo and his wife Jeanne-Claude, who together created a worldwide art movement.
As I mentioned a few times before, I regularly take a power walk along the Seine. Last week I noticed an installation of a group of billboards commemorating the various art installations Christo and Jeanne Claude had created over many decades. After looking through them, I was astonished by their prodigious output and feats of marvel, from the orange gates in Central Park (I was there), to the blue umbrellas in the U. S and Japan, to the draping of the Pont Neuf in Paris, to the pink fabric circles surrounding the Key Biscayne Islands in Florida, to the orange fabric colored walkway floating on a lake in Italy.
Bravo to Christo and Jeanne-Claude and Iam a little sad they aren’t alive to see this longtime project finally come to fruition.
I will post photos of the Arc de Triomphe wrapping next week.
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