Bulgarian artist Christo has abandoned plans for one of his signature giant fabric artworks over the USA's Arkansas River because Donald Trump is now in charge of the country.
The artist and his late wife Jeanne-Claude had been planning for 25 years to temporarily suspend six miles of silvery material over the Colorado waterway, on federally owned land.
But Christo has pulled out because he is not happy about the new landlord.
The New York Times described the move as "the most visible ? and costly ? protest of the new administration from within the art world".
The artist has already spent $15 million (£12 million) of his own money on the project, titled Over The River. It was expected to cost around $50 million (£40 million) to install, but bring in vast sums from those expected to visit over a fortnight. His Floating Piers ? a series of saffron-coloured walkways across an Italian lake ? attracted 1.5 million visitors during its 16-day run last summer.

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"I came from a communist country," said the 81-year-old artist, who was born Christo Vladimirov Javacheff in Bulgaria. "I use my own money and my own work and my own plans because I like to be totally free. And here now, the federal government is our landlord. They own the land. I can't do a project that benefits this landlord."
"The decision speaks for...