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 ...

French artist JR, who made his way from tagging graffiti on the street to being one of the most recognisable figures on the country's art scene, now plans to turn the oldest bridge in Paris into an ...

Excerpted from How Paris Became Paris: The Invention of the Modern City by Joan DeJean, out now from Bloomsbury USA. The invention of Paris began with a bridge. Today, people simply flash an image of ...

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Set against Paris' oldest bridge, the Pont Neuf, while it was closed for repairs, this film is a love story between two young vagrants: Alex, a would be circus performer addicted to alcohol and ...

French police forensic officers inspect the scene of a shooting on the Pont Neuf bridge, in Paris PARIS (Reuters) -French police shot dead two men in a car that drove at them after failing to stop for ...

The Pont Neuf Wrapped, a 1985 installation by Christo and Jeanne-Claude that involved wrapping the oldest bridge in Paris in fabric. Photo by Wolgang Volz. It was September 1985, and creative partners ...