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! wendemuseum.org/exhibition/c...

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?

How it started: How it's going:

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.

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!

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.

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

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.

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.