| An environmental installation artist and painter of architectural
landscape drawings, Christo has become known for "wrapping" famous
buildings and geographical landmarks with plastic and woven-fabric
sheets. His projects, usually with the assistance of his wife and
dealer Jeanne-Claude, include wrappings of the "Berne Kunsthalee" in
1968, a coastline area in Australia; the Reichstag, in Berlin; and the
Pont Neuf in Paris. In California, he built a running fence 18
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Javacheff Christo is also mentioned in these AskART essays:
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