A Political Crisis Pits Lithuanian Artists Against the Populists

Sodas 2123 used to be a boarding school for delinquent children before it was left to ruin and squatters. Five years ago, it was taken over by the Lithuanian Interdisciplinary Artists’ Association and turned into a warren of studios and exhibition spaces, using objects salvaged from places of cultural and historical significance — paving stones taken from the cathedral square, flip-up chairs from the national theatre, and pillars from the old Soviet Palace of Trade Unions sawn lengthways and tur