'It's a wrap.' Christo passes at 84. (Page 1/1) rinselberg JUN 01, 04:09 PM "Christo, Artist Who Wrapped and Festooned on an Epic Scale, Dies at 84" quote Christo, the Bulgarian-born conceptual artist who turned to epic-scale environmental works in the late 1960s, stringing a giant curtain across a mountain pass in Colorado, wrapping the Pont Neuf in Paris and the Reichstag in Berlin and zigzagging thousands of saffron-curtained gates throughout Central Park, died on Sunday at his home in New York City. He was 84. William Grimes for the New York Times; May 31, 2020. LINK for complete report https://www.nytimes.com/202...ts/christo-dead.html It's a "solid" writeup, and presents many dramatic photographs of his ephemeral creations. "Qualis artifex pereo." (What an artist the world has lost.) ~ reportedly, the last words of the Roman emperor Nero