Save<\/a>Share this articleCopy LinkEmailFacebookTwitter\/XLinkedInReddit<\/p>\nFrench photographer and street artist JR, poses in his Paris studio on November 26, 2025, presenting The Cave of the Pont Neuf, the artwork he will create as a tribute to Christo and Jeanne-Claude, transforming the Pont Neuf 40 years after the wrapping of Paris’s oldest bridge. This work will be on display from June 6 to 28, 2026. Photo \/ Joel Saget, AFP<\/p>\n
French artist JR, who made his way from tagging graffiti on the street to being one of the most recognisable figures on the country\u2019s art scene, plans to turn the oldest bridge in Paris into an \u201cimmersive cave\u201d for his latest project.<\/p>\n
\n Once hailed as the \u201cFrench Banksy\u201d after the
\n secretive British street artist, JR has become famous for outsize projects, having already transformed the Palais Garnier Paris opera to look like a cave and mounted a painting that made the Louvre pyramid seem to disappear.\n <\/p>\n
Now he intends to create a 120m \u201ccave\u201d along the Pont Neuf, the oldest bridge over the Seine in Paris, that anyone will be free to walk through.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou will be completely lost in terms of your sense of direction and reference points in relation to the outside world,\u201d JR, whose real name is Jean Rene, told AFP.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s going to be a monumental project, but this is a city that knows how to welcome monumental projects,\u201d he said, hailing how Paris handled last year\u2019s Olympic Games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Julie Coste AFP\u00b7 1 Dec, 2025 07:23 PM2 mins to read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":163844,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[107393,4886,33846,1628,682,1565,20191,1887,5232,156,30271,11775,71,3073,743,296,8273,700,1362,3025,107395,111,139,69,34962,1523,6943,2171,107394,3263,56382,1439,107396,5424,107397,223,61,664],"class_list":["post-163843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-120m","tag-aims","tag-along","tag-artist","tag-being","tag-bridge","tag-cave","tag-countrys","tag-create","tag-entertainment","tag-figures","tag-french","tag-from","tag-graffiti","tag-immersive","tag-into","tag-jr","tag-latest","tag-made","tag-most","tag-neuf","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-oldest","tag-over","tag-paris","tag-plans","tag-pont","tag-project","tag-recognisable","tag-scene","tag-seine","tag-street","tag-tagging","tag-the","tag-to","tag-turn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163843\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}