On February 3, a survey exhibit of Christo’s and his wife's art that spans the artists' career opens in the National Gallery of Art in Washington. “Thinking big and creating big are what distinguish the collaboration of Christo, the man who specializes in oversized art, and his wife of more than 40 years, Jeanne-Claude,” critics say. Sixty-one Christo drawings, models, lithographs and early works will be presented at the first survey exhibit in the United States devoted to Christo’s sculpture. The exhibit remains until June 23. Born in Bulgaria, Christo - full name: Christo Vladimirov Javacheff - trained at the Sofia Fine Arts Academy, then in Vienna and in Paris. He and Jeanne-Claude de Guillebon, who was born in Morocco, were born on the same day, June 13, 1935. They met in Paris and now are citizens of the United States, living in a fifth-floor walk-up in downtown Manhattan. The Reichstag package was the culmination of Christo's early career in wrapping things: statues, oil drums, even a small section of Australia's coastline. Mocking his own specialty, he once sent a fellow artist a package with a note inside to say that the addressee had destroyed a work of art in opening it. Christo and his wife are developing two new projects now: to hang 7 miles (11 kilometers) of a silvery canopy over a rafters' river in Colorado; and to erect 11,000 steel frames over the walkways in New York's Central Park, with panels of saffron-colored nylon streaming from them.

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