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1976
 
    
Bulgarian-born US artist Christo (Christo Javacheff) constructs a 24-mile Running Fence in California       
1982
 
   
George Segal's bronze monument The Holocaust is unveiled in San Francisco      
1985
 
    
US artist Christo tightly binds Paris's Pont Neuf in fabric, as one of his international series of wrapped iconic buildings       
1988
 
    
Leading New York Graffiti artist Jean-Michel Basquiat dies of an overdose       
1989
 
    
US sculptor Richard Serra's Tilted Arc is removed from Federal Plaza, New York, after legal action by local protesters       
1991
 
    
US sculptor Jeff Koons marries one of his favourite subjects, Italian porn star La Cicciolina       
2010  February 3
 
    
A sculpture by Alberto Giacometti, L'Homme qui marche, sets a new auction record for a work of art at £65 million (US$103.7 million)       
2012  May 22
 
    
A pastel version of Edvard Munch's The Scream sells for US $120 million, by far the record for any work of art