Which Paris monument got wrapped in 2021?

On Sept. 12, 2021, a team of 95 rope technicians began wrapping Paris’s Arc de Triomphe in 25,000 sq. meters of material, concluding a 60-year project for the artist Christo.

Who was Christo?

The Bulgarian-born Christo Vladimirov Javacheff and his French wife Jeanne-Claude worked together under the name Christo. In 1995 they famously covered the Reichstag in Berlin for two weeks, drawing five million spectators. Ten years earlier, they oversaw the wrapping of the Pont Neuf in Paris. Christo died in May 2020, while his wife died in 2009.

Why is Paris’s Arc de Triomphe wrapped in 2021?

The late Christo couple left detailed drawings and instructions for the Arc de Triomphe to be enveloped in recyclable polypropylene fabric in silvery blue and red rope. The idea was revived in 2017 to coincide with a Christo exhibition displayed in multiple Paris galleries starting Sept. 2021. “L’Arc de Triomphe, Wrapped” will be on view for 16 days from Saturday, September 18 to Sunday, October 3, 2021.

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