An aerial view of the in progress installation 'The Floating Piers' by Bulgarian-born artist Christo Vladimirov Yavachev known as Christo, on the Lake Iseo, northern Italy, Tuesday, June 7, 2016. Some ...

SULZANO, Italy — I decided to make the journey from my home in Rome to Sulzano in northern Italy to judge the merits and pitfalls of Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s “Floating Piers” — an almost two-mile ...

Who says walking on water is impossible? A new floating art installation created by Bulgarian-born artist Christo Vladimirov Javacheff gives people the opportunity to make walking on water a reality.

This year, the artist Christo (@xtojc_tweet) was finally able to present “The Floating Piers,” an ambitious project he and his wife and artistic partner the late Jeanne-Claude had begun to envision ...

People walk on the installation 'The Floating Piers' by Bulgarian-born artist Christo Vladimirov Yavachev known as Christo, on the Lake Iseo, northern Italy, Saturday, June 18, 2016. Some 200,000 ...

“Jeanne-Claude and my art exists because we like to see it and realize it. There is no meaning to it and it is of no real use,” says Christo as he addresses a classroom full of children. He is ...

ISEO, Italy -- It's taken nearly 2,000 years, but regular folks soon will get to feel what it is like to walk on water, thanks to a project by the artist Christo, who may have had his namesake in mind ...