The offbeat artist created fascinating, ephemeral projects around the world.
“I think it takes much greater courage to create things to be gone than to create things that will remain.”
Unknown to many, he was actually Mexican and his first name was Jesus.
Nah, I’m fuckin’ witcha. He was Bulgarian, and Christo was actually his first name. Wikipedia has quite a good entry on the projects he did with his wife.
Christo’s funeral will consist of 12,000 identical white coffins lined up like dominoes on the South rim of the Grand Canyon