Christo’s Much-Anticipated Arc de Triomphe Wrapping Delayed to 2021 by Coronavirus

France’s art scene is preparing to reopen, now that Prime Minister Édouard Philippe has announced that galleries and so-called small museums could start welcoming visitors as soon as May 11. But it appears that Parisians will have to wait one more year to see what had originally been expected to be one of 2020’s biggest art events, both in scale and in anticipation.
Christo’s long-awaited wrapping of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, previously slated to go on view this Sept