<P> In 2009, the Wende Museum commemorated the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall with The Wall Project, the most ambitious commemoration outside of Germany . As part of the event, the museum installed ten original segments of the Berlin Wall in front of 5900 Wilshire Boulevard, the longest stretch of the Wall in the United States . "The Wall Across Wilshire," an artistic interpretation of a temporary wall closing down Wilshire Boulevard on the night of November 8, 2009, was painted by the public and by visual artists, among them Shepard Fairey and a group of graffiti artists working with ArtStorm . </P> <P> As part of The Wall Project, the Western sides of the Berlin Wall pieces were painted by LA muralist Kent Twitchell, Thierry Noir, and emerging Los Angeles artists Farrah Karapetian and Marie Astrid Gonzalez . In addition to the new works, one of the pieces retains the original painting by Berlin street artist Bimer, who is known for his renderings of bears . </P> <P> On November 13, 2011, the museum unveiled Behind The Wall, a component of The Surveillance Project that brought together street artists D * Face, RETNA, and Herakut to paint the original east - facing backs of the wall pieces on Wilshire Boulevard . </P> <P> Also in 2011, as part of the Downtown Art Walk, the museum mounted Across / the Wall, an exhibition on the exterior wall of a parking garage with high - resolution reproductions of Soviet - era portraits . While street artists started to exhibit in museums such as the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), this street project brought museum art onto the streets of downtown Los Angeles . </P>

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