Christo had a surprise in store

In 1964, the Bulgarian artist Christo Javacheff and his wife Jeanne-Claude made a first visit to New York. Soon afterwards they worked on their projects titled Store Fronts, Show Cases and Show Windows.

These were mixed-media assemblages and the expansion of small draped cabinets that Christo had exe…

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