Explore the life and art of Soviet hippie icon Azazello as we launch his digital archive with music, readings, and conversation.
Artist, author, and former scientist Enrique Martínez Celaya discusses his new exhibition with the Wende’s Chief Curator Joes Segal.
Acclaimed author and journalist George Packer discusses his new novel The Emergency with former presidential speechwriter Ben Rhodes.
Comparing artistic interpretations of the universe in the East, the West, and the Global South.
Conversation, Music, Screening, Special Event
This unique event brings together artists from a variety of disciplines from across the Eastern European diaspora.
An online conversation with artist Liat Segal examining the overlap between visual arts and science and how the two areas can inspire and enrich each other.
A panel on modernist architecture’s utopian and dystopian legacies, from Cold War geopolitics and soft power to contemporary tourism.
An evening of reading and conversation with author and illustrator Stephanie Lunkewitz and Holocaust survivor Mary Bauer.
Community Partner, Conversation
Join a timely conversation with newly elected Westside mayors as they share early priorities, explore regional collaboration, and discuss the future of housing across local communities.
Albers Foundation Education Director Fritz Horstman will provide historical context around the Bauhaus movement and its continuing relevance
A discussion with author Andreas Bernard on pinball, public space, and what declining analog play reveals about modern leisure and work.
UCLA professor Cindy Anh Nguyen discusses how libraries shaped power and public life in Vietnam, followed by Q&A and signing.
Community Partner, Conversation
Bestselling author Ezekiel J Emanuel shares science-based tips on aging happily and healthily.
UCLA's Ellen Carol DuBois presents a new portrait of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, one of the most influential and controversial figures in the history of American reform.
Historian Ibrahim Al-Marashi explores how Cold War interventions shaped modern regime change operations.
OTIS College students present books of art inspired by interviews with community elders.
A panel revisiting Francis Fukuyama’s The End of History and the Last Man amid rising authoritarianism. What comes next?
Music and poetry meet in a live program with Inna Faliks and collaborators, featuring Silvestrov and Shostakovich.
What will history look like in the age of AI? Who will decide what is true? Whose memory survives, and whose is lost?
Artist Ivana Dama performs in the Wende garden in conjunction with her installation Breathing Alarms, followed by a conversation.
Community Partner, Conversation, Music
Original multi-genre music and spoken word performances by Black female-identifying and queer artists.
What does it take to produce reliable and meaningful history for a wide public at this moment?
