Oh how I wish I could have seen Valley Curtain in person. Credit: Screenshot from Christo's Valley Curtain. I imagine seeing art duo Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s Valley Curtain billowing just above a ...

Imagine driving along the highway in August of 1972 and seeing 4.5 acres of fabric strung across the valley from peak to peak. The orange material created a contrast between the blue skies above and ...

“Valley Curtain” was first planned for the Aspen area, and a drawing from that iteration of the project – which was only recently unearthed from the Christo and Jeanne-Claude collection – will be on ...

Solely by luck did Leo Thomas “Teo” Prinster happen to have a Polaroid camera sitting in his car. It was Aug. 10, 1972. Prinster, son of one of the founding members of Colorado grocery chain City ...

This Oscar-nominated documentary follows Christo and Jeanne-Claude as they conceive and execute Valley Curtain, an immense orange fabric installation stretched across a Colorado mountain pass. Filmed ...

Prints and multiples, Offset Lithograph Poster. This rare vintage 1972 poster was acquired from the private collection of the renowned philanthropists, collectors and art historians Jacob and Aviva ...

For nearly twenty years, conceptual artist Christo and his late wife, Jeanne-Claude, made plans for the “Over the River” project, a series of sun shades that hopefully will be installed in a few years ...

Oh how I wish I could have seen Valley Curtain in person. Credit: Screenshot from Christo's Valley Curtain. I imagine seeing art duo Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s Valley Curtain billowing just above a ...

Christo's environmental-art projects often bear an inverse relationship to most artists' aims and techniques. While many work alone to create art for galleries and private collections, Christo's ...