Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s Unfinished Works Propose Radical Alternatives to Traditional Monuments

Christo died in New York on May 31, eleven years after the passing of Jeanne-Claude, his artistic collaborator and life partner. In Christo’s last days, activists filled the streets demanding justice for the African Americans killed by police and an end to systemic racism. Protesters have since then defaced and destroyed monuments to white supremacists and imperialists as powerful currents of resistance remake the public sphere—a fact not tangential to the career of Christo and Jeann