Jeanne-Claude passes away suddenly

The artist Jeanne-Claude passed away last night from a brain aneurysm at age 74. She was best known as the wife of Christo, though she was an equal collaborator in the creation of work such as "The Gates" in New York's Central Park, arguably their most recognizable installation, at least to the American art world. Jeanne-Claude and Christo were one of contemporary art's most loved love stories. They were born during the same hour, on the same day, of the same year, he in Bulgaria and she in Morocco. Though he was the name to which their collaborations were credited, I think she was the brains behind his projects: "We declared that Christo was the artist and Jeanne-Claude was the manager, the art dealer, the coordinator and the organizer. And, this served us very well for many years...By 1994, though, when my hair had turned gray and Jeanne-Claude’s hair had turned red, we decided we were mature enough to tell the truth, so we officially changed the artist name “Christo” into the artists “Christo and Jeanne-Claude.”

Very very sad....