Arkansas River Art

Artist Christo, who specializes in public art pieces so big they can be seen from space, is moving forward with plans to drape a giant canopy over the Arkansas River. Buoyed by the success of The Gates, Central Park, which opened in New York in February, Christo and his wife, Jeanne-Claude, are coming to Colorado to renew their work on Over the River, a project to cover a 10-kilometre stretch of the Arkansas with huge pieces of clear fabric. Their previous projects have included wrapping the Reichstag in Germany and surrounding 11 islands in Miami's Biscayne Bay with fabric. The projects typically cost millions of dollars and take years to assemble. For the full story - click the title Irish Art