I haven’t done one of these in a while. But there’s news!
Christo has a new project! Actual NYT headline:
Christo’s Latest Work Weighs 650 Tons. And It Floats.
“The London Mastaba,” Christo’s first major outdoor work in Britain, is now floating (through Sept. 23) in the middle of the lake in Hyde Park. A trapezoidal pyramid of 7,506 painted and horizontally stacked barrels, it’s 66 feet tall — as tall as the Sphinx in Egypt — and weighs roughly 650 tons. Named after a flat-roofed structure with sloping sides that originated some 6,000 years ago in Mesopotamia (the word “mastaba” means “bench” in Arabic), it’s a test for a mastaba roughly eight times as high that Christo hopes to put up in the desert in Abu Dhabi.
Photos at the link. As is usual for Christo projects, this was entirely self-funded at an estimated cost of three million pounds.
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