Christo, the artist who wrapped the world, dies at 84:
Christo, the Bulgarian-born artist, best known for his monumental installations that wrapped some of the world's most celebrated buildings and played with people's perceptions of landscape and the outdoors, died on Sunday at his home in New York.
He was 84.
[...] At the time of his death, Christo was working on a project to wrap the Arc de Triomphe in Paris in 25,000 square metres (269,100 square feet) of recyclable polypropylene fabric in silvery blue and 7,000 metres (23,000 feet) of red rope.
It will still go ahead.
Whether you liked his work or not, he was one of a kind.
Also at: The Guardian, The New York Times, and npr.
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(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 01 2020, @09:41PM (4 children)
Wot? No pics? Ncommander used up the weekly graphics bandwith again?
I liked the islands.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 01 2020, @09:55PM (1 child)
We're gonna wrap the statue of Ncommander with toilet paper. It'll be titled "Please don't squeeze the Ncommander!"
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 01 2020, @10:55PM
"Please don't squeeze the charming Ncommander!"
ftfy
(Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Tuesday June 02 2020, @12:32AM (1 child)
I liked the island too.
A good friend of mine was living in Berlin when he wrapped the Reichstag, and he said lots of locals came for a look, but no-one stayed for long because it just wasn't that interesting once you got past the "he wrapped that building in foil" bit.
(Score: 2) by bradley13 on Tuesday June 02 2020, @07:25AM
This. It was a neat trick, and looked kind of cool. A cute stunt, worth a couple of minutes to look at. Then you think about the effort and money and material that went into this "cute stunt", and realize that it's just totally out of proportion. I don't know who funded his monumental wrapping projects, but I suspect it was - directly or indirectly - the taxpayer.
Everyone is somebody else's weirdo.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 02 2020, @12:57AM (1 child)
for Christo. Great artist, even better Smucker-owned all-vegetable shortening brand.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 02 2020, @06:35AM
Its a wrap for Christo.
Art.
right.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 02 2020, @01:19AM
-nomsg
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 02 2020, @07:51AM (1 child)
Did anybody work out the amout of CO2 generated by those stunts ? Or have artists exempted themselves from this accounting ?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 04 2020, @06:38AM
And what about those members of the synthetic fibers used in the cloth that identify as being cotton?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 03 2020, @04:15PM
… we placed him in a giant Ziploc baggie.