Frost Art Museum presents ‘An Evening with Christo’

Christo, together with his late wife and creative partner Jeanne-Claude, has wrapped the Reichstag building in Berlin (1995) and the Pont Neuf bridge in Paris (1985) in fabric. Earlier in their career, the couple orchestrated a 25-mile fabric fence across Northern California (1976), strung an orange curtain across a Colorado valley (1972) and surrounded 11 islands with floating pink woven polypropylene fabric in Biscayne Bay (1983).

Christo with Jeanne-Claude in New York's Central Park.

Most recently, “The Gates” transformed 23 miles of Central Park walkways for 16 days in 2005 with 7,503 vinyl gates with freeflowing saffron nylon fabric panels.

Now, Christo is returning to Miami, to deliver a lecture titled “Two Works in Progress: Over the River, Project for the Arkansas River, Colorado; The Mastaba, Project for the United Arab Emirates,” which will address these two upcoming projects.

The artist will speak on Friday, Feb. 11, at 7 p.m., at the College of Business Complex (Room 235), as the featured lecturer for the Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum‘s Steven & Dorothea Green Critics’ Lecture Series. This event is free and open to the public.

Due to limited seating, guests are encouraged to arrive early (late arrivals will not be seated). The museum will be open prior to the lecture.