"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. |
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William Grimes for the New York Times; May 31, 2020.
LINK for complete report
https://www.nytimes.com/202...ts/christo-dead.htmlIt'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
