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