The artist Jeanne-Claude, who, with her husband, Christo, was responsible for creating some of the grandest environmental installation pieces in contemporary art, died Wednesday of complications from a brain aneurysm. She was 74.
Jeanne-Claude and Christo's best-known recent work was 2005's The Gates, for which the artists installed more than 7,000 saffron-covered fabric panels along 23 [...]