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 ...
More than a year after his death and 40 years since he first had the idea, famed artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude will have their final work completed: wrapping Paris’ iconic Arc de Triomphe. The ...
Perched in the basket of a cherry picker, Vladimir Yavachev is arm’s length from the vaulted ceiling inside the Arc de Triomphe, nearly a hundred feet above the streets of Paris. “We had to fix ...
The Arc de Triomphe in Paris, which the president vows to top in Washington, offers a lesson in the complicated history of ...