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Harry Greb the street artist

FEW days after the summer of 2020 rolled in, a mural went up on a pale brick wall in Rome. Spotted near the city’s Olympic Village area, where the buildings are beige and white, the mural depicts Bob Marley, John Lennon, Jimi Hendrix, Aretha Franklin, Joe Strummer and Marvin Gaye standing side-by-side behind a Black Lives Matter banner. A few feet to the right, in another mural, George Floyd, wearing the Statue of Liberty’s spiked crown, his face the same patina hue, holds the Bill of Rights in one hand and a

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