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# Artists Talk Totalitarianism at LA’s Museum Devoted to the Cold War
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/artists-talk-totalitarianism-at-las-museum-devoted-to-the-cold-war/
- Published: 2017-03-15T22:43:58.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T16:27:42.000Z
- Description: On Thursday, the photographer Farrah Karapetian and painter Christopher Wyrick will launch a conversation series at the Wende Museum in Culver City.
- Author: Matt Stromberg
- Tags: Art, Events, Wende Museum, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-hidden, #Import 2025-11-24 07:23 (2016, 2017, part 2)

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​Farrah Karapetian, “Unbuilding: Bricks 1” (2017), unique chromogenic photogram from constructed negatives, 24 x 20 inches. (Courtesy of the artist and Von Lintel Gallery)

Culver City’s [Wende Museum](http://www.wendemuseum.org/?ref=hyperallergic.com) is dedicated to archiving and exhibiting Cold War-era objects and artifacts from former Soviet Bloc nations, and boasts an impressive collection of over 100,000 items. Given the parallels between the current US administration and totalitarian regimes of the past, the museum seems like an ideal place to examine troubling and instructive historical precedents. “[Art – Past – Present](https://www.facebook.com/events/240118953119943/)” is a new discussions series beginning tomorrow at the Wende that aims to “consider what it means to make art in times of irreconcilable alternative truths.” The first two artists participating will be [Farrah Karapetian](http://www.farrahkarapetian.com/?ref=hyperallergic.com) — whose cameraless photographs record physical encounters rather than purely retinal phenomena — and [Christopher Wyrick](https://www.chriswyrick.com/?ref=hyperallergic.com) — a painter whose recent work includes large-scale murals around Los Angeles.

**When:** Thursday, March 16, 3–5pm (free, [RSVP](mailto:rsvp@wendemuseum.org) recommended)  
**Where:** Wende Museum(5741 Buckingham Parkway, Suite E, Culver City, California)

*More info* [*here*](https://www.facebook.com/events/240118953119943/)*.*