Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100Mon, 27 Jul 2026 22:46:07 +0200Whitewashing Lennon Wall sparked threats, says art group’s Mikuláš Karpetahttps://english.radio.cz/whitewashing-lennon-wall-sparked-threats-says-art-groups-mikulas-karpeta-8276199© 2026 Radio Prague International On the recent 25th anniversary of the start of the Velvet Revolution a previously unknown street art group named Pražská služba (Prague Service) made headlines at home and abroad for painting over the murals and graffiti on Prague’s John Lennon Wall, leaving it completely white apart from the words Wall is Over! To find out why they did it, I spoke to a member of Pražská služba, Mikuláš Karpeta. But we first discussed the origins of the Lennon Wall, a symbol of freedom in the communist era that is today a tourist attraction. encr@radio.cz (Cesky Rozhlas)webmaster@radio.cz (CRo Webmaster) https://english.radio.cz/sites/default/files/images/lennonova_zed_3.jpg?timestamp=1628168147 Whitewashing Lennon Wall sparked threats, says art group’s Mikuláš Karpeta https://english.radio.cz/whitewashing-lennon-wall-sparked-threats-says-art-groups-mikulas-karpeta-8276199 Radio Prague International Radio Prague International radio.prague.int@gmail.com clean 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9