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 ...

It was the artwork that changed Miami forever, and it only lasted two weeks. Eleven lush green islands wrapped in floating, Barbie-pink fabric dotted Biscayne Bay in 1983. An ambitious public art ...

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 ...

Known for their outsized and revolutionary art projects, the couple’s work is seen again in Florida, New York and Germany. By Joseph B. Treaster Reporting from Miami It was 42 years ago. Miami awoke ...

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 ...

box construction—pastel, charcoal, enamel, graphite, wax crayon, fabric collage, fabric sample and printed aerial photograph collage on paper, in two parts 28 ¼ x 22 ¼ in. (71.8 x 56.5 cm.)28 ¼ x 11 ¼ ...

two-part print (photograph mounted on rag paper, with collotype, screenprint and collage of masking tape/ collotype and screenprint with collage of map, pink woven polypropylene fabric and masking ...

30 x 40 cm. (11.8 x 15.7 in.) Subscribe now to view details for this work, and gain access to over 18 million auction results. Purchase One-Day Pass ...