LONDON — The ducks, geese and hardy cold-water swimmers in London’s Hyde Park have a new neighbor: a monumental floating structure made from 7,506 stacked barrels colored bright red, mauve and blue.

Though influential artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude have both passed away, work has posthumously continued to bring their unique artistic vision to life. Now a plan is underway to complete another of ...

A joint mission between German and Egyptian archaeologists has uncovered a centuries-old mastaba during an excavation in Dahshur, close to the Great Pyramid of Giza. Mastabas are a type of ancient ...

Christo and the late Jeanne Claude’s monumental floating sculpture, The London Mastaba, is a gift that will keep on giving, apparently. After the pyramid-like work of art—made of more than 7,500 oil ...

More rock festival stage than political statement, Christo’s giant oil barrel sculpture on Hyde Park’s Serpentine leaves our critic wondering what the fish all think It sits out on the lake, bigly.

It is nearly impossible to find meaning in rejection, but to the late artist Christo, it only meant a new beginning. It was in the seventies that the artist and his wife Jeanne-Claude came to the UAE ...

A newly examined mastaba near Giza may preserve key clues about how the Great Pyramid was built. Architectural details inside the tomb reflect practical construction techniques that mirror larger ...

A collection of 180 ancient Egyptian ushabti figurines and a limestone sarcophagus have been found in a mastaba tomb in Egypt's Dakahliya. During routine excavation work at Tel Tabla archaeological ...

Click to open image viewer. Poster depicts design of Christo’s oil drum project: 500,000 drums in orange and blue stacked into shape of a mastaba on brown background. Text in black with some orange ...

Artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude conceived their “Mastaba” -- a postmodern pyramid made of oil barrels -- as their largest and only permanent work. But since its conception in 1977, the project has ...

A 600-tonne, 20-metre high work made from 7,000 oil barrels is unveiled on lake in Hyde Park “This is not normal art … it is all about beauty,” said the artist Christo as a 600-tonne, 20-metre high ...