Artist JR will take over Pont Neuf, the French capital’s oldest surviving bridge, for a vast installation next summer, the City of Paris has announced. The project is inspired by another intervention 40 years earlier, which shifted the boundaries of what artists could do with France’s monuments.
It was September 1985, and creative partners Christo and Jeanne-Claude had been trying to realise their vision of wrapping the bridge for 10 years.
