On the agenda at the first board meeting of the Christo and Jeanne-Claude Foundation was what to do with its more than $150m in assets and how to carry forward the duo’s ultimate piece

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

Christo's posthumously realised project benefitted from France having a mature understanding of the importance of culture

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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

Proceeds from exhibition will go towards funding the monumental Paris project

John Baldessari, Beverly Pepper, Irina Antonova and Christo were among those who died last year

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

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

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The donation, worth $3m, makes the museum's Christo collection the fourth largest in the US

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