{"id":10720,"date":"2020-05-31T15:10:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-31T22:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=10720"},"modified":"2020-06-20T15:13:37","modified_gmt":"2020-06-20T22:13:37","slug":"christo-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2020\/05\/31\/christo-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"Christo Gone"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2020\/may\/31\/christo-artist-who-wrapped-the-reichstag-dies-aged-84?fbclid=IwAR1sVmOFauHJ-Abm8sAMWa8vdIp9gcIVfEAlO7_hygYAWbO1kKAOfxs3Rck\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from The Guardian<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Christo, artist who wrapped the Reichstag, dies aged 84<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>Bulgarian creator of large-scale public artworks worked in collaboration with wife Jeanne-Claude<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>by Alex Needham<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/073c7456cf61af6d42c2105f6edc4a0899c807a3\/53_101_2894_1738\/master\/2894.jpg?width=620&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=cf0f36fdc518093224d5aed99b410c75\" alt=\"\"\/><figcaption>Christo unveiling his first UK outdoor work, a 20 metres high installation on Serpentine Lake in London, in 2018. Photograph: Tim P Whitby\/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The artist Christo, known for wrapping buildings including Berlin\u2019s Reichstag, and also swathing areas of coast and entire islands in fabric, has died aged 84. The news was confirmed\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/xtojc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">on his official Facebook page<\/a>, which said that he died of natural causes at his home in New York.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Born Christo Vladimirov Javacheff in Bulgaria,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/christo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Christo<\/a>\u00a0studied in Sofia and then defected to the west in 1957, stowing away on a train from Prague to Vienna. Two years later he met Frenchwoman Jeanne-Claude Denat de Guillebon, who would become his artistic partner and wife until her death in 2009.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2020\/may\/31\/christo-artist-who-wrapped-the-reichstag-dies-aged-84?fbclid=IwAR1sVmOFauHJ-Abm8sAMWa8vdIp9gcIVfEAlO7_hygYAWbO1kKAOfxs3Rck\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at The Guardian<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Guardian Christo, artist who wrapped the Reichstag, dies aged 84 Bulgarian creator of large-scale public artworks worked in collaboration with wife Jeanne-Claude by Alex Needham The artist Christo, known for wrapping buildings including Berlin\u2019s Reichstag, and also swathing areas of coast and entire islands in fabric, has died aged 84. The news was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10720\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}