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Remembering Christo

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Published June 1, 2020 at 12:52 PM CDT
Bulgarian artist Christo poses in front of the monumental "Mastaba" art work at the Maeght Foundation (Fondation Maeght) on the opening day of the exibition on June 4, 2016 in Saint-Paul-de-Vence, southeastern France. (Valery Hache/AFP via Getty Images)
Bulgarian artist Christo poses in front of the monumental "Mastaba" art work at the Maeght Foundation (Fondation Maeght) on the opening day of the exibition on June 4, 2016 in Saint-Paul-de-Vence, southeastern France. (Valery Hache/AFP via Getty Images)

Artist Christo Vladimirov Javacheff, known as Christo, died yesterday at the age of 84. We revisit host Jeremy Hobson’s conversation with Christo from 2016.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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