It is 8.30am and another sleepy if slightly chilly morning for pupils at Qatr Al Nada School, Madinat Zayed, in the UAE’s Western Region.
Yet at the front of their darkened classroom stands one of the most recognisable names in contemporary art. Gesticulating and rattling away in his distinctive Bulgarian-accented English, the artist Christo – renowned for wrapping Germany’s parliament building, the Reichstag, in more than 100,000 square metres of fabric in 1995 – is trying to make himself understood.
