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Screening of Anat Zalmanson-Kuznetsov's "Operation Wedding" followed by a Q&A with the filmmaker. Co-presented by the Goethe-Institut.
The Cold War divided the world, leaving people on each side wondering what life was really like on the other side of the Iron Curtain. To shed light on the ways Cold War history impacted human lives, the Fiona Chalom and Joel Aronowitz Historical Human Witness Project has been gathering oral histories from those who lived in the Eastern Bloc during the period from 1945 to 1991. This event will be a live interview conducted at the Wende Museum.
(Monday) Evening Concerts (MEC) presents "Odyssey"
Please join us for another iteration of The Wende Museum's popular discussion series Art - Past - Present with L.A. muralist EL MAC and writer, filmmaker and curator Rodrigo Ribera d'Ebre.
This year's national Smithsonian Museum Day theme is "Women Making History." Join us at the Wende Saturday, 9/22, at 3 p.m. for a gallery spotlight talk on women history-makers of the Cold War era.
Sunday, September 16, 2018
12 p.m. - 5 p.m.
Please join us to celebrate the opening of our two new exhibitions War of Nerves and Red Shoes with refreshments, programs and tours of the exhibition!
The Wende Museum and the Getty Research Institute (GRI) are combining their rich and complementary Hungarian collections to convey the story of Hungary’s visual culture between the 1956 uprising in Budapest and the end of the regime in 1989.
This exhibition is devoted to a world that few people know existed and that many find hard to believe did exist: the world of the Soviet hippie movement. Soviet hippies were part of the global counterculture of the 1960s and 70s: They wanted love and peace – and rock and roll. They maintained an elaborate network all across the Soviet Union. They experimented with homemade drugs. They studied Eastern mysticism and were looking for God. Yet they lived in a state which valued conformity above all else and mercilessly persecuted them for the way they looked and lived.
Please join curator Dr. Juliane Fürst for a tour of the exhibition "Socialist Flower Power: Soviet Hippie Culture."
Please join us on Friday, August 24, for drinks and a curator's talk about art and alcohol.
Cristina-Cuevas Wolf, resident historian at the Wende Museum, and Isotta Poggi, assistant curator at the Getty Research Institute, will lead a tour of the collaborative exhibition Promote, Tolerate, Ban: Art and Culture in Cold War Hungary.
Produced during "Prague Spring," Czechoslovakia: Portrait of a Tragedy (1968) features rare interviews with historical figures including Ota Šik, drafter of the New Economic Model, and Václav Havel, who more than twenty years later became a leader in the Velvet Revolution and the first president of the Czech Republic.
We screen the documentary in honor of Rudolf Perina, who served on the Wende Museum's Council of Advisors, playing a pivotal and inspiring role in the development and growth of the museum. His daughter Kaja Perina will introduce the screening.
The screening of this film is co-presented with LA FilmForum.
Robert Thalheim's film Westwind (90 minutes, video, 2011) co-presented by the Goethe-Institut.
This screening complements the exhibition Promote, Tolerate, Ban: Art and Culture in Cold War Hungary, a collaboration with the Getty Research Institute that is on view at the Wende Museum of the Cold War in Culver City from May 20 to August 26, 2018.
Following the screenings, Forgacs will be present for a Q&A.