DENVER -- The idea of a fabric-draped Arkansas River in southern Colorado, anticipated by many as art and dreaded by others as environmental degradation, has been postponed. The artist Christo, who has been working on the project, called ''Over the River,'' for more than 20 years, through a federal environmental impact study and uncounted rounds of...
CAÑON CITY, Colo. -- The shouting isn't over for ''Over the River.'' The $50 million project by the artist Christo, who hopes to drape nearly six miles of the Arkansas River here in southern Colorado with suspended bank-to-bank fabric, received approval from federal land managers late last year. But on Wednesday, a new battlefield emerged in law...
THE artist Christo Vladimirov Javacheff, who goes by Christo, is known for environmental works that are monumental yet ephemeral. The Department of the Interior just approved his latest project, ''Over The River,'' which will entail suspending 5.9 miles of silvery fabric along a stretch of the Arkansas River in Colorado, at an estimated cost to the...
Kunstneren Christo Vladimirov Javacheff er født d. 13. juni 1935. Han var gift med Jeanne-Claude, med hvem han har skabt flere kunstværker sammen med. Han er kendt for at pakke store bygninger ind. I 1985 pakkede han Pont Neuf i Paris ind og i 1995 pakkede han Rigsdagen i Berlin ind.