Earlier this week, Praguers awoke to find that the John Lennon Wall, one of the city’s better known symbols of artistic resistance against the former Communist regime, had been “reimagined.” Or, as the Prague Post put it, the wall had been “vandalized.” APRiffing on the John Lennon and Yoko One peace message, “War Is Over! If You Want It,” an anonymous group of art students called “Prague Services” painted the graffiti-covered wall entirely in white, save for the words “Wall Is Over!” The group explained their deed in a statement: Twenty-five years ago, one big totalitarian wall fell…Students of …read more
Source: The Atlantic
