Life in a Divided Europe. Watchtowers, armed guards, and minefields controlled the Communist eastern side of the Berlin Wall, a significant symbol of Cold War division in Europe. In the liberal West, to the contrary, ordinary folk turned what was an easily accessible wall into an ad hoc art gallery — this whimsical graffiti art appeared in the late 1980s. (© 2013 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/VC Bild-Kunst, Bonn)