Death of Christo's creative partner Nov 21, 2009
Rapt Jeanne-Claude and Christo ... TO the Sydney arts patron John Kaldor, Jeanne-Claude and Christo put Australia on the map of international art ... Others from Jeanne-Claude, who has died in New York aged 74, and her husband included transforming islands off Miami into lily pads using pink fabric in 1983, wrapping Berlin's Reichstag in aluminum in 1995 and putting up 7500 ''gates'' adorned with saffron curtains in New York's Central Park in 2005. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Jeanne-Claude, 75, artist who cocreated ‘The Gates’ in NYC Nov 20, 2009
Jeanne-Claude, 75, artist who cocreated The Gates in NYC - The Boston Globe ... Jeanne-Claude, 75, artist who cocreated The Gates in NYC ... Artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude watched the unfurling of a gate during a ceremony. (Boston Globe)
The Gates co-artist Jeanne-Claude dies Nov 20, 2009
The Gates co-artist Jeanne-Claude dies - Arts, books, more- msnbc ... The Gates co-artist Jeanne-Claude dies ... Bebeto Matthews / AP fileArtists Christo, left, and his wife Jeanne-Claude discuss their art project "The Gates, Central Park, New York, 1979-2005" as they walk in New York's Central Park in january 2005. (MSNBC -- Lifestyle)
Obituaries in the news Nov 20, 2009
NEW YORK (AP) - Artist Jeanne-Claude, who created the 2005 Central Park installation "The Gates" and other large scale "wrapping" projects around the globe with her husband Christo, has died ... Jeanne-Claude died Wednesday night at a New York hospital from complications of a brain aneurysm, her family said in an e-mail statement ... Christo - the more famous of the duo - was saddened, the family statement said, but remains "committed to honor the promise they made to each other many years ago:... (Anchorage Daily News)
A Sydney curator takes art to New York Aug 20, 2009
For the city's The Gates in 2005, the artist Christo and his wife, Jeanne-Claude, erected 7500 ''gates'' adorned with saffron curtains along Central Park's footpaths. Baume had been the chief curator at Boston's Institute of Contemporary Art since 2003. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
'Herb & Dorothy' looks at longtime art collectors Jul 10, 2009
Sasaki also gets big names to sit for her camera - Chuck Close, Robert Mangold, Lucio Pozzi, Christo and Jeanne-Claude - and tell stories about Herb and Dorothy that both capture them as open-minded people and convey why they matter to conceptual and minimalist art. The Vogels have been persons of interest for years in part because they ve amassed a staggeringly large collection (about 4,000 works) without the usual deep pockets or fancy schooling (the tagline for the film is, You don t have to... (Boston Globe)
Just like opera - for cloth ears Apr 15, 2009
When the artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude visited in 1969 to wrap the Little Bay coastline in fabric, Christo hatched another plan for Sydney ... "It was a possibility as a project, but they had other projects all over the world and in the end they didn't get around to it," said John Kaldor, the businessman and art patron who invited Christo and Jeanne-Claude to Sydney. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
