Remembering the late Bulgarian artist Christo, on what would have been his 86th birthday. Christo, and his partner in both work and life, Jean-Claude, were the ultimate wrapping fanatics, famously engulfing everything from the Berlin Reichstag to an entire island in cloth. This image shows the swathed interior of the Museum Würth in Künzelsau, Germany, which the duo artfully draped in cloth for an exhibition in 1994. It recalls their radical installation at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago in 1968, where they wrapped the entire space in the same fabric used for the dust cloths that had been covering it only days earlier, while it was being painted—a deliberate challenge the institutional function of museums.
