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"The people want the fall of the regime" is a message that Westminster council doesn't want to hear

Darren Atwater | Tuesday 4 October, 2011 16:35

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Egyptian artist Moataz Nasr’s plan this week to cut the grass of Hanover Square into a Kufic inscription of “The people want the fall of the regime,” chanted by Arab Spring demonstrators, has been called off.

Speaking to Art Info, councillor Robert Davis, Westminster council’s deputy leader and cabinet member for the built environment, said, “We feel that it is too soon to have a commemorative work of art relating to [Arab Spring campaigners.]”

Londoners can check out The Maze next month, simply by taking a short trip to Paris, where they can find it in front of the Louvre.

(H/T Nutsville )

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