The Nature Theater of Christo and Jeanne-Claude

The artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude have been making vast, temporary art works in public places for half a century. Their Running Fence, Sonoma and Marin Counties, California made international headlines in 1976 and, as Christo embarks on a new project for Lake Iseo, near Milan in June of 2016, their work still forces people to rethink much that takes place in the public sphere and in their own lives. In this lecture, Professor Fineberg will examine why this work continues to have such an enormous impact and what this tells us about why society continues to need great works of art.