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Surrounded Islands, Biscayne Bay, Greater Miami, Florida, 1980–83 was a 1983 environmental artwork in which artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude surrounded an island archipelago in Miami with pink fabric.
Christo Vladimirov Javacheff (1935–2020) and Jeanne-Claude Denat de Guillebon (1935–2009), known as Christo and Jeanne-Claude, were artists noted for their large-scale, site-specific environmental installations, often large landmarks and landscape elements wrapped in fabric, including the Wrapped Reichstag, The Pont Neuf Wrapped, Running Fence in California, and The Gates in New York City ...
“As Christo and Jeanne-Claude would say, once it is experienced, it lasts forever.”
The Umbrellas, 1991, Japan Photograph of the yellow umbrellas of the 1991 Christo and Jeanne-Claude project in California. Photo by Robert S. McCombs. The Umbrellas, Japan–USA, 1984–91 was a 1991 environmental artwork in which artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude erected yellow and blue umbrella structures in California (between Gorman and Grapevine [1]) and Japan, respectively.
In this installation, eleven islands in Biscayne Bay were surrounded by hot pink fabric for 13 days. The project has been remembered in the short film Remembering Surrounded Islands by the Center for the Fine Arts. [15] The project was credited with attracting global attention on Miami and the Art Deco District of South Beach as centers of the ...
A group of artists will set sail for the remote Marshall Islands in the Pacific Ocean on Saturday, hoping their trip through one of the world's most vulnerable regions will draw attention to the ...
The Gates was a site-specific work of art by Bulgarian artist Christo Yavacheff and French artist Jeanne-Claude, known jointly as Christo and Jeanne-Claude. The artists installed 7,503 steel "gates" along 23 miles (37 km) of pathways in Central Park in New York City. From each gate hung a panel of deep saffron-colored nylon fabric. The exhibit ...
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