Wende Museum Site
5900 Wilshire Blvd
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Art from the Berlin Wall
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Oct 17, 2009 – Nov 14, 2009
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It's been 20 years since the archaic and divisive Berlin Wall was brought down by fed-up and suppressed citizens. Now, the Wende Museum takes pieces of that wall and addresses present-day barriers with a 60-foot art piece. The Wall Across Wilshire is painted publicly by artists from the OTIS, CalArts, UCLA, and USC art programs, and by the likes of Shepard Fairey, who himself is no stranger to using walls as canvases. Halloween weekend, there's live wall-painting, and before midnight on Sunday, November 8, the wall will shut off one of LA's busiest streets for a concert with Ute Lemper and a poignant dismantling.
