Berlin Wall

This guide to the Berlin Wall slab in Montreal reads the piece's two faces, the riotously graffitied west side and the bare, patrolled east side, to explain how each half of the divided city treated its own border. It traces the nearly four-metre, three-tonne slab from its spot near the Brandenburg Gate to its 1992 gift to Montreal, marking the city's three hundred fiftieth anniversary. Listen for the contrast between the two faces as you walk from one side to the other.