In remembering Christo, we remember what art once was
- Written by Adam Geczy, Senior Lecture, Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney
Oscar Wagenmans/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SAIn 1995, after the fall of the Wall, Berlin had started to be rebuilt, but was still in a state of disrepair.
There, Christo and Jeanne-Claude, two of the world’s most important land artists, wrapped the entire Reichstag, the seat of German parliament, in over 100,000 square meters of fabric.
The...






