Who says something eye-catching and short-term can’t also be serious?

Paris mayor describes project as “a very fine example of the art world’s ability to adapt to climate challenges”

The event coincides with the second edition of the Intersect Aspen art fair and the Aspen Art Museum’s annual ArtCrush benefit auction

Plus, Art Basel: are the buyers back? And Mary Beard on images of power

A new book looks at the detailed preparations and 60 years of planning behind the work being unveiled in Paris

The ambitious project has been around 60 years in the making

The artist's posthumous project was delayed due to Covid-19

Works by the artists, and their friends, largely exceeded estimates in the white glove auction. Part two will take place tomorrow

Proceeds from the pieces sold at Sotheby’s Paris in February will go towards the artist duo's estate

With his late wife, Jeanne-Claude, the artist was a dreamer who got to realise his monumental, but ephemeral, dreams, all of them self-funded

Plus, remembering Christo—the art world's wrap star. Produced in association with Christie's

The artist duo made some of the most important and popular works of the 20th and early 21st century—here are their most memorable

The late artist revealed he was too frightened to go out during the pandemic and was "a bit relieved" that his latest project in Paris was delayed

Pamm director says Miami island project brought the community together after 1980s race riots

With his late wife and partner Jeanne-Claude, the artist created monumental interventions on architecture and landscape

Artist has previously wrapped monuments such as the Reichstag in Berlin

From Christo’s huge floating sculpture in Hyde Park to the intimacy of Frida Kahlo’s wardrobe at the Victoria and Albert Museum

As Christo's new work for the Serpentine shows, he remains as ambitious as ever

We speak to the Bulgarian-born artist about his grand project for the Serpentine, and look at our annual survey of visitor figures

Large-scale installation in Hyde Park is part of artist's Serpentine Gallery show

Photographer Gianfranco Gorgoni says copies of his pictures of the California land art project were shown and reproduced without his knowledge