Christo and Jeanne-Claude

Christo, known for massive, ephemeral public arts projects died on May 31 at his home in New York. He was 84.

His death was announced on Twitter and the artist's web page. No cause was given.

Artist Christo Javashev will pack the Arc de Triomphe in 2020, the French authorities announced, AFP reports. This will happen 58 years after the birth of the idea.

The plan is to cover the massive monument with 25,000 meters of silvery blue recycling tissue and 7,000 meters of red line.

Design Boom  -  The london mastaba, a temporary sculpture by world-renowned artist christo, has opened in london's hyde park.the public work, which consists of horizontally stacked colorful barrels on a floating platform, will be on view until september 23, 2018 on the park's serpentine lake.

The decision of the legendary Bulgarian-born artist Christo to pull out of a major artwork on Wednesday has been called by The New York Times "the most visible - and costly - protest of the new administration from within the art world".

Bulgarian-born artist Christo and his homeland are eventually to meet after 57 years - not personally, though.