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 ...

Christo has completed The London Mastaba, a 20-metre-high sculpture floating on London's Serpentine Lake, which represents his and late wife Jeanne Claude's determination to make art free.

An 83-year-old Christo was late to our interview in February. He was busy traipsing across Kensington Gardens, battling sideways rain, scouting potential locations for The London Mastaba, which was ...

Home The Finer Things Art and Antiques In Focus: The story behind the London Mastaba, the 7,506 barrels currently floating on The Serpentine in central London The artistic husband-and-wife team of ...

It’s not as immersive as New York’s The Gates, 2005, nor as magnificent as Floating Piers, 2016, in Italy’s Lake Iseo – it has also, according to Hyde Park regular Kay, “scared away the ducks,” – but ...

The 4,000-year-old mastaba was built for a royal administrator and his priestess wife. A view of the partially excavated tomb. Photo: Egypt Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities.

Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s first oil barrel mastaba was completed in 1968. The installation was almost two stories high, filling the whole 50-by-50-foot atrium of the Institute of Contemporary ...

Abu Dhabi will soon play host to the world’s largest man-made sculpture, constructed entirely from oil barrels. The 492-foot-tall structure — dubbed The Mastaba and independently financed with ...