Years of planning, designing, pleading, fundraising and negotiating came down to three crucial days. The artists only had three days to install a monumental artwork that would paint Miami in a new, ...
The epic engineering feat on Biscayne Bay quite possibly marked the only time Miami drivers were happy to be stuck in traffic. On May 7, 1983, cars congested on the causeways and some passengers even ...
Christo and Jeanne-Claude's "Surrounded Islands"(1980–83) in Biscayne Bay, Greater Miami, Florida (© 2024 Christo and Jeanne-Claude Foundation; photo by Wolfgang Volz) It took two ornithologists, one ...
Boating Out to Christo’s Pink-Wrapped Islands With the Artist, 35 Years Later“Today, we are bombarded by the ‘goodness’ of things. These are inexplicable, capricious, worthless. That is really the ...
pencil, pastel, charcoal, wax crayon, fabric, aerial photograph, enamel paint and ballpoint pen, in artist's Plexiglas frame, in two parts ...