50 years ago today, on August 10, 1972, Christo and Jeanne-Claude completed the Valley Curtain project, installing 18,600 square meters of woven nylon fabric between two Colorado mountain slopes. Described as "a sight of overwhelming beauty" and "a triumph of work raised to the level of art" by critic Jan van der Marck for Art in America after the project's completion, he continued: "The successful unfurling of the giant curtain vindicated Christo's belief that the vision he had pursued for twenty-eight months could be turned into bold reality." --- Photos: Wolfgang Volz, Shunk-Kender, Simon Chaput, Duane Howell, Bill Wunsch #Christo #ChristoJeanneClaude #ChristoandJeanneClaude