The construction for “L’Arc de Triomphe, Wrapped,” which took almost 12 weeks of nearly 24-hour work, was a more intense process than people might think, said Yavachev.

Tucked away in the South of France, this quiet town holds a Roman treasure that rivals anything in Italy. Orange was once a major Roman settlement known as Arusio, and remnants of that history are ...

L'Arc de Triomphe Wrapped, an installation designed by the late artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude, has opened to the public in Paris. The installation sees the iconic triumphal arch on the Champs ...

I've walked and drove past the Arc de Triomphe countless times, fearing for my life while traversing the roundabout by motorcycle. On June 18th, I took the walk up the famous arch, coincidentally ...

L'Arc de Triomphe, Wrapped as it is officially named, cost a total of €14 million (roughly US$16.5 million), which was raised privately by the estate of Christo and Jeanne-Claude.

Christo and Jeanne-Claude dreamed of wrapping the Arc de Triomphe early in their careers. But it took 60 years before the fabric would be draped on the national monument in a posthumous installation.

Imagined in 1961 by the late Bulgarian-born artist Christo, who died in 2020, and his wife and fellow artist Jeanne-Claude, who died in 2009, L'Arc de Triomphe, Wrappe was finally brought to life ...

The Arc de Triomphe will be accessible throughout the 16-day exhibition. It was built in the 1800s by French Emperor Napoléon Bonaparte to commemorate soldiers who died during his military campaigns.

The construction for “L’Arc de Triomphe, Wrapped,” which took almost 12 weeks of nearly 24-hour work, was a more intense process than people might think, said Yavachev.