LOS ANGELES—In the coming months, the Berlin Wall will be re-created just in time for the 20th anniversary of its fall. But this time it will divide not East and West Berlin, but downtown Los Angeles. The Wall Project, painted by a variety of artists, will close Wilshire Boulevard for three hours on November 8 and will feature a reenactment of the real wall’s breakdown. The event will be streamed live to Berlin, where it will already be November 9, the day the wall fell in 1989.

A number of L.A. art institutions will be involved, including the Wende Museum and Archive of the Cold War, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and art schools like CalArts and the Otis College of Art and Design, among others. Artists who have signed on to the project include Shepard Fairey, muralist Kent Twitchell, and Germany’s Thierry Noir, whose paintings appeared on the actual Berlin Wall.

Though the ceremony will involve the replica’s partial destruction, a portion will remain on display on Wilshire from October 17 to November 14.

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