The Paris monument has been wrapped in 270,000 square feet of fabric, realizing a longstanding dream of the late artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude.

His nephew Vladimir Javacheff oversaw the wrapping of the Arc de Triomphe. He said criticism is normal. "Its very human, not of all of us to agree, but everybody is entitled to their own opinion.

The Arc de Triomphe is the city's second most iconic monument after the Eiffel Tower - older, shorter, but far more symbolically important: indeed, the island on which it stands, in the centre of ...

Giants sheets of fabric have been draped down the Arc de Triomphe monument in Paris in tribute to a late artist's unfulfilled dream.

Bemused tourists in Paris reacted with a mix of surprise and disdain when they discovered the Arc de Triomphe monument had been enveloped in a shimmering shroud, a posthumous installation ...

A large European Union flag attached to the Arc de Triomphe in Paris on Friday to mark the start of France's six-month presidency of the bloc was removed on Sunday after it drew outrage from far ...

News Paris’s Arc de Triomphe has been wrapped in fabric for an art installation It’s part of a show conceived by artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude some six decades ago ...

The Arc de Triomphe. Photo credit: Julian Elliott/Getty Images It was exactly 180 years ago today that the Arc de Triomphe was inaugurated in Paris as a symbol of France’s military strength.

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.