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Cold War Architecture in the Heart of Idyllic Southern California

by Matt Stromberg August 12, 2020November 5, 2020

This Saturday, Stuart W. Leslie will speak about “The Architecture of the Apocalypse.”

Posted inFilm

This Independence Day, Stream Films That Offer More Critical Takes on “Liberty and Justice for All”

Avatar photo by Dan Schindel July 2, 2020June 30, 2022

I’m not saying that this is what you should do instead of watching Hamilton on Disney+, but I’m not not saying it either.

Posted inBooks

Dismantling the Narrative of Soviet Socialist Realism Versus American Abstract Expressionism

by Lydia Pyne March 29, 2019April 1, 2019

A new book injects nuance into reductive historical interpretations of how the Cold War affected global art in the second half of the 20th century.

Posted inFilm

The Comic Absurdity of the Atomic Threat

Avatar photo by Dan Schindel August 7, 2018August 6, 2018

The documentary The Atomic Cafe dissects how American Cold War propaganda directed the country’s culture into putting a cheerful, upbeat face on possible apocalypse.

Posted inArt

The Newly Expanded Wende Museum Offers a Nuanced Perspective on the Cold War

Avatar photo by Dan Schindel April 11, 2018

Amid continued misconceptions about the Cold War and Russia, the mission of the Wende Museum is vital.

Posted inArt

How Freedom Was Aestheticized During the Cold War

by Adela Yawitz December 8, 2017December 9, 2017

The House of World Cultures’ exhibition tells the story of the Congress for Cultural Freedom’s use of an aesthetic of freedom, and contextualizes the lasting legacy of modernism within the geopolitical power struggles of the Cold War.

Posted inArt

The Wende Museum of Cold War-Era Artifacts Reopens in LA

by Matt Stromberg November 14, 2017

This weekend marks the opening of the museum’s new home in the remodeled National Guard Armory Building in Culver City.

Posted inArt

In the Arizona Desert, Artists Rediscover Relics of a Cold War Satellite Program

Avatar photo by Allison Meier July 7, 2017

Julie Anand and Damon Sauer are photographing the x-shaped calibration markers from a once top-secret spying project by the US government.

Posted inArt

The Wende Museum Examines the Politics of Food During the Cold War

by Matt Stromberg April 7, 2017

Dinner Party Politics: Food Culture in the Eastern Bloc, opening this Sunday, explores how gastronomic traditions in the former Soviet Union and socialist nations were linked to ideology.

Posted inArt

The Art of Anxiety and Anticipation from the Backyards of Cold War Superpowers

by Michael Busch November 5, 2015November 17, 2015

As Cold War politics began to heat up along the peripheries of US and Soviet control, aesthetic preoccupations slowly started to give way to explicit engagement with the prevailing orders of power.

Posted inNews

Cold War Flashback: Great Britain’s Plan to Save Its Art from Nuclear War

by Laura C. Mallonee December 31, 2014December 31, 2014

The threat of nuclear war with the Soviet Union reached new heights in the early 1980s, prompting authorities in Great Britain to devise a plan for saving its greatest art treasures, Bloomberg reports.

Posted inArt

Meet the Afronauts

by Jillian Steinhauer March 25, 2014August 28, 2019

In the 1960s, while the United States and the Soviet Union were playing out their battle of who would make it to the moon first and so dominate the galactic skies, a former high school teacher in Zambia decided his country needed a space program.

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