Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In June, French artist JR plans to turn Paris’ oldest bridge, Pont Neuf, into a walk-through “cave” — a temporary, monumental public artwork that will cover the stone arches with ...

Artist JR will transform the Pont Neuf bridge in Paris into a rocky cave structure. (Courtesy Atelier JR/© 2026 Atelier JR) Now comes the Pont Neuf Cavern, again with Bangalter on sound. Three iterations of the same conceptual project in three years, from ...

PARIS – He is known as the French Banksy — or simply JR. Now the artist popular across France for large-scale projects, from photographs to graffiti and street art, wants Parisians to do something unusual on the city's arguably most famous bridge: stop.

The oldest bridge in Paris looked Thursday as if it had been swallowed by a mountain. The transformation is the work of JR, the street artist known as the “Fr