On May 7, 1983, artist duo Christo and Jeanne-Claude and their team got it done: “Surrounded Islands,” 11 small islands perfectly outlined in hot pink. At the NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale ...

An exhibition of the highlights of "Surrounded Islands" opened in February at the NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale and will run through February 2026. Christo and Jeanne-Claude — both of whom have ...

The couple’s lives are preserved in a SoHo building where for decades they plotted their monumental projects. Hidden among the three-hour-long lines for sample sales, the luxury boutiques selling ...

The spoil islands looked like sunny-side up eggs shimmering in the sea. And then, two weeks after it arrived, Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s ambitious public project “Surrounded Islands ...

Surrounded Islands, Biscayne Bay ... seemed like a mammoth task. Christo and Jeanne-Claude had to go to federal court to get permission for the work, which entailed surrounding the islands ...

It was truly a Wild West.” Currently on view at the Pérez Art Museum Miami is “Christo and Jeanne-Claude: Surrounded Islands 1980–1983” a “documentary exhibition” that aims to ...

Christo, “Surrounded Islands (Project for Biscayne Bay, Greater Miami, Florida)” (© 2024 Christo and Jeanne-Claude Foundation; image courtesy NSU Art Museum) Exhibition material documenting ...

Miami seemed to be reborn in that moment, argues the Perez Art Museum Miami, which is commemorating the feat in its major fall exhibit “Christo and Jeanne-Claude: Surrounded Islands, Biscayne ...

Christo and Jeanne-Claude are known for their large-scale projects that involve covering infrastructural and environmental landmarks in fabric. The present work chronicles the planning of the 1980-83 ...

Florida (1980–83), where a small island was surrounded with pink fabric. The scale of Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s work was truly monumental and could not be experienced or seen all at once ...

What: Christo and Jeanne-Claude used 6.5 million square feet of floating pink woven polypropylene fabric to cover the surface of the water around 11 islands on Biscayne Bay. The effect was akin ...