Bulgarian artist Christo has died at age 84

Wrapped Reichstag, 1995 Credit: Oscar Wagenmans / CC BY-SA (Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 4.0)

Christo Vladimirov Javacheff, commonly known as Christo, has died at the age of 84 of natural causes. Christo, and his partner Jeanne-Claude Denat de Guillebon, are known for massive, short-lived public artworks, such as Wrapped Reichstag, Oil Barrels and The Umbrellas.

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