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Jeanne-Claude, RIP

Jeanne-Claude, one-half of the art duo Christo and Jeanne-Claude, has died at the age of 74. The front page of the couple's web site has a short tribute. I loved The Gates.

By Jason Kottke  •  Nov 19, 2009  •  art   Christo   Jeanne-Claude   obituaries   The Gates

"Floating Island" is a mini version of

"Floating Island" is a mini version of Central Park being towed around Manhattan by a tugboat (photos here)...it's a conceptual art piece by Robert Smithson. This weekend, a group of folks in a motorboat tried to board the floating park and install a miniature version of Christo and Jeanne-Claude's The Gates. When the captain of the boat towing the island "looked out across the East River Thursday afternoon and saw another piece of conceptual art gaining on him, he did not view the development kindly".

By Jason Kottke  •  Sep 26, 2005  •  art   centralpark   christo   floatingisland   funny   NYC   robertsmithson   thegates

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