 In the 1960s, the Provo counterculture movement held weekly gatherings around the statue.Also located at the Spui is the work of Lawrence Weiner, "Een vertaling van de ene taal in de andere (A Translation from one language to another)", three pairs of two stones placed against each other, located at different places of the square.Each pair presents the sentence in Dutch on one side, and on the other side in English, Arabic and Surinaams respectively.