JR makes Louvre pyramid disappear

The French artist JR has created an anamorphosis of the Musée du Louvre's pyramid by entirely covering one of its glass sides with a black-and-white photograph. The image of the museum buildings behind is intended to give the illusion that I.M.Pei's pyramid has temporarily disappeared.“JR wanted to intervene in a spectacular manner in the public space,” says Stéphane Malfettes, a curator at the Louvre, about how the work came about.JR, best known for mounting women's p