The Wende Museum

Counter/Surveillance: Control, Privacy, Agency This exhibition traces the historical roots of surveillance devices and methods, and the Cold War dynamics that shaped and spread them.

If you’re in the LA area, I recommend the COUNTER/SURVEILLANCE: CONTROL, PRIVACY, AGENCY exhibit at @wendemuseum.bsky.social!

Always relevant, but seemingly even more so these days.

Plus you’ll see my stickers in the gift shop!

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On March 8 @badiucao.bsky.social & @melissakchan.bsky.social will be at @wendemuseum.bsky.social www.eventbrite.com/e/you-must-t... —they’ll also be at UCI March 3 (evening) & March 5 (midday) events, & at UCLA for a March 3 event w/ @bairuiwen.bsky.social www.international.ucla.edu/ccs/event/17...

Currently under consideration for the Wende Museum gift shop: socialist leaders as Funko Pops. Which would you buy?

Boris Yeltsin portrayed as St. George, protecting the Russian Parliament and fighting the 1991 coup attempt against Gorbachev by Soviet hardliners. 📷: Mikhail Nikolaevich Rozhdestvin, Boris the Victorious, 1991. Image from the Ferris Collection, donated by Tom and Jeri Ferris.

Tanks shelling the Russian Parliament on Boris Yeltsin's orders, 1993

How it started: How it's going:

David Bowie as Political Philosopher: Memory, Capitalism, and Berlin UCLA's Tiffany Naiman examines political commentary in David Bowie's single "Where Are We Now" from his album The Next Day (2013)

This Sunday at 2 p.m., join us for a presentation on David Bowie's 2013 single "Where Are We Now" as a commentary on memory, capitalism, and post-Cold War Berlin: wendemuseum.org/program/bowi...

In recent days there has been a mass flight of over 100,000 of ethnic Armenians from the Nagorno-Karabakh region, also known as Artsakh. Here is a quick overview of the history that led up to this crisis.

10 Art Shows to See in Los Angeles This Fall Betye Saar, Barbara T. Smith, Teddy Sandoval, emerging talents, and much more.

Thank you to @hyperallergic.com for including our upcoming exhibition "Visions of Transcendence: Creating Space in East and West" in their list of 10 shows to see in LA this fall!

NKAO stands for Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast. The painting features "We Are Our Mountains," a 1967 monument of a man and woman symbolizing the region's people. A single tear added to the woman's face represents violence over the region. 📷: S.A. Sdimian, NKAO, 1991. Image from the Ferris Collection, donated by Tom and Jeri Ferris.

This 1991 painting "NKAO" represents the history of Nagorno-Karabakh. Established in 1923 as a majority Armenian autonomous region within the Azerbaijan SSR, it declared independence in 1991 but remained unrecognized. Azerbaijan recently took over the region; over 90,000 Armenian refugees have fled.

#WendeCollectionReflection: Kosta Kaffee Get an inside look at the Wende Collection from our staff and volunteers who will be sharing insight into their favorite pieces over the coming weeks. Presented…

Today is National Coffee Day. Did you know the East German Coffee Crisis has been credited by some as a contributing factor to the fall of the Berlin Wall? Learn more here: vimeo.com/508985903

David Bowie looking out the window of the Trans-Siberian Express train, 1973.

Thanks! One good Bowie pic deserves another:

Professor Choi Chatterjee of California State University, Los Angeles explores two perspectives on the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. She looks at the Wes... Russia, a Pariah Nation, or an Emerging World Order? With Choi Chatterjee (Cal State LA)

Now on the Wende Museum YouTube: Cal State LA historian Choi Chatterjee's discussion of the diplomatic impacts of the Russian invasion of Ukraine examines Russia's ideological and material ties with its global allies.

In a Blow to Russia, Ukraine Says It Killed Chief of Black Sea Fleet As they ramp up attacks on occupied Crimea, Ukrainian forces are repeatedly targeting the fleet based there, a key to Russia’s attacks deep into Ukraine and its blockade of Ukrainian ports.

Ukraine’s military claimed on Monday that it had killed the commander of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet in a strike on Crimea — a blow that, if confirmed, would be among the most damaging suffered by the Russian Navy since the sinking of the fleet’s flagship last year.

Hi Bluesky! Feels like we finally made it across the Berlin Wall to freedom.