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Shining a Light on Soviet Jewish Life

by Matt Stromberg February 6, 2022June 24, 2022

Works by Bill Aron and Yevgeniy Fiks chronicle the experience of Soviet Jews who tried to leave their homeland.

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How Does Plastic Age? Conservators Are Taking a Closer Look

Avatar photo by Karen Chernick May 24, 2021May 24, 2021

A new project is researching how Soviet-era plastics were made and used.

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A Fragrance Bottles Up the Everyday Scents of Former East Germany

by Renée Reizman April 21, 2021April 21, 2021

Notes of mold and tobacco hit quickly, with raspberry candies cutting through the musk, personifying the feeling of “bittersweet.”

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What to Listen to This Week

Avatar photo by Elisa Wouk Almino May 12, 2020

Enjoy this roundup of podcasts, playlists, live readings, and interviews coming out of Los Angeles.

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From Monument to Commodity, Karl Marx in a Post-Cold War World

by Matt Stromberg November 14, 2018

Two hundred years after Marx’s birth, the Wende Museum and the Goethe-Institut Los Angeles have organized a discussion on the significance of communist monuments today.

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The Political Art that Shaped Cold War Hungary

by Ksenya Gurshtein August 21, 2018August 20, 2018

An exhibition at the Wende Museum explores the art and culture of socialist-era Hungary and offers a chance to consider relationships beteween art and politics during the Cold War.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Artists Talk Totalitarianism at LA’s Museum Devoted to the Cold War

by Matt Stromberg March 15, 2017

On Thursday, the photographer Farrah Karapetian and painter Christopher Wyrick will launch a conversation series at the Wende Museum in Culver City.

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