by Simon Black
Sovereign Man
Yesterday afternoon, a crew of workers descended upon the Arc de Triomphe– one of the most famous landmarks in Paris–to begin dismantling a piece of art.
The Arc de Triomphe has been fully wrapped in more than 250,000 square feet of silvery-blue plastic for the past three weeks, a sort of ‘life art’ first imagined decades ago by a Bulgarian-born artist named Christo Javacheff.
He called it “L’Arc de Triomphe, Wrapped.”
Now, I like art as much as the next guy. But it certainly makes me wonder how much time and how many resources went into this work.