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Mind the gaps

We’ve delved into our archives and pulled out this photo, from a story that first appeared in the December 2009 issue. You’ll find a few gaps in the description: read to the end and then see how many of the blanks you can fill in.

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PHOTOGRAPH: MATT MUNRO _____ is a cit of historic architecture, so this television tower, built at the end of the communist era, was a controversial addition to the skyline. It was later made over by local artist David Č erný, known for his own outrageous visual statements. T e slot-faced babies crawling up the tower are one thing, but at the museum dedicated to the author _____, two statues urinate animatronically into a pool shaped like the nation’s borders. Would the man who wrote T e Metamorphosis have appreciated the surrealism? Around the capital you can also spot Č erný’s figure of an upside-down horse ridden by St _____ (a reputedly kind ruler who won wider fame in a Christmas carol) and, though he was mostly a resident of _____, Sigmund Freud hanging onto a beam with one hand.

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