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Christo at the 2007 Tribeca Film Festival #184949018
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Environmental art creator Christo Vladimirov Javacheff, known professionally as Christo, discusses the film `The Gates,` about the controversial display in Central Park, New York City, mounted from February 12 to February 27, 2005. The blowing saffron, orange fabric material was 16 feet high and covered its winding path for 23 miles around the park. The venue occasion was a press conference at the 6th Tribeca Film Festival in Manhattan on May 1, 2007. His wife, Jeanne-Claude, Moroccan-born, was his partner in the artistic endeavors, wrapping large structures in fabric at locales spanning the globe. She died at 74 in November, 2009. Christo, born in Bulgaria, died at his home in New York City on May 31, 2020, at the age of 84.
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