The original Berlin Wall segments were transported to Los Angeles and installed in mid-October 2009 on Wilshire Boulevard (watch the documentary). We recieved one piece that had already been painted by the Berlin street artist Bimer, known for his bears. Once the Wall segments arrived in Los Angeles, four artists painted five assigned segments in public view. Two of the segments were commissioned by the renowned Los Angeles-based muralist Kent Twitchell. Another segment was painted by the French-born, Berlin-based artist Thierry Noir who was one of the first artists to paint on the Berlin Wall in the early 1980s. Farrah Karapetian and Marie Astrid González, two emerging artists from Los Angeles, each painted the remaining two segments.