LONDON — The ducks, geese and hardy cold-water swimmers in London’s Hyde Park have a new neighbor: a monumental floating structure made from 7,506 stacked barrels colored bright red, mauve and blue.

Though influential artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude have both passed away, work has posthumously continued to bring their unique artistic vision to life. Now a plan is underway to complete another of ...

A joint mission between German and Egyptian archaeologists has uncovered a centuries-old mastaba during an excavation in Dahshur, close to the Great Pyramid of Giza. Mastabas are a type of ancient ...

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 7,500 oil ...

A collection of 180 ancient Egyptian ushabti figurines and a limestone sarcophagus have been found in a mastaba tomb in Egypt's Dakahliya. During routine excavation work at Tel Tabla archaeological ...

June 18 (UPI) --Environmental artist Christo debuted his first artwork in Britain on Monday -- a 65-foot high floating mastaba made of barrels on London's Serpentine Lake. The temporary sculpture will ...

A granite sarcophagus containing a carefully wrapped skeleton, royal crooks, and a mace was discovered beneath Mastaba 17 at Meidum, a tomb constructed without any entrance shaft to prevent access.

More rock festival stage than political statement, Christo’s giant oil barrel sculpture on Hyde Park’s Serpentine leaves our critic wondering what the fish all think It sits out on the lake, bigly.

A 600-tonne, 20-metre high work made from 7,000 oil barrels is unveiled on lake in Hyde Park “This is not normal art … it is all about beauty,” said the artist Christo as a 600-tonne, 20-metre high ...