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Christo, Artist Known for Massive, Fleeting Displays, Dies at 84

Associated Press

   NEW YORK - Christo, known for massive, ephemeral public arts projects
   died Sunday at his home in New York. He was 84.

   His death was announced on Twitter and the artist's web page. No cause
   of death was given.

   Along with late wife Jeanne-Claude, the artists' careers were defined
   by their ambitious art projects that quickly disappeared soon after
   they were erected. In 2005, he installed more than 7,500 vinyl gates in
   New York's Central Park and wrapped the Reichstag in Berlin in fabric
   with an aluminum sheen in 1995. Their $26 million Umbrellas project
   erected 1,340 blue umbrellas installed in Japan and 1,760 blue
   umbrellas in Southern California in 1991.

   The statement said the artist's next project, L'Arc de Triomphe,
   Wrapped, is slated to appear in September in Paris as planned. An
   exhibition about Christo and Jeanne-Claude's work is also scheduled to
   run from July through October at the Centre Georges Pompidou.

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