In Paris this weekend, traffic stopped and crowds gathered to see the Arc de Triomphe transformed: the huge monument wrapped in shimmering, fabric, tied in place with red rope – the colors subtly ...

It’s a wrap, six decades in the making. One of Paris’ most popular attractions, the Arc de Triomphe, is about to be wrapped in silver and blue. The project, a posthumous art installation conceived by ...

The Arc de Triomphe, one of Paris’ most notable monuments, has been shrouded in fabric. Not for renovations, but for art. Paris' iconic Arc de Triomphe wrapped in in fabric and red rope, an ...

Imagined in 1961 by the late Bulgarian-born artist Christo, "L'Arc de Triomphe, Wrapped" was brought to life posthumously by his nephew, Vladimir Yavatchev, at a cost of about 14 million euros ($16.54 ...

It took four years of planning and 270,000 square feet of silver polypropylene fabric to wrap the Arc de Triomphe from its crown to its giant feet. It cost over $16 million to install, but will only ...

Christo’s unrealized final dream to wrap the Arc de Triomphe in Paris has finally come to fruition, more than a year after the artist’s death. French president Emmanuel Macron inaugurated the ...

When the artist known as Christo – famous for monumental projects that involved wrapping landmarks and landscapes in brilliant fabric – died in 2020, many doubted there would still be more of his ...

Artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s temporary installation, the L’Arc de Triomphe, Wrapped, opened to the public on September 18th. Twenty-five thousand square meters of recyclable silvery-blue fabric ...