By Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent Christo, the Bulgaria-born artist best known for large-scale installations and wrapping in fabric famous landmarks such as the Pont Neuf, has died.
He was 84. Christo Vladimirov Javacheff, known as Christo, died of natural causes on May 31 at his home in New York, according to a statement made on the artist’s official Twitter and Facebook accounts.
The artist was the subject of Andrey Paounov’s 2018 documentary “Walking on Water,” which documented Christo’s journey to realize “The Floating Piers” installation in Italy in 2016.
As Variety critic Jay Weissberg noted at the time, “(Christo’s) populist approach means you don’t need to read a dense explanatory panel full of jargon to understand
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