Miracle Mile in Los Angeles in Los Angeles County, California — The American West (Pacific Coastal)
Berlin Wall Segments
— The Wall Project —
The Wall Along Wilshire is an installation featuring ten sections of the original Berlin Wall. Measuring nearly forty feet wide, it is the world’s longest stretch of the Wall outside of Berlin. The Wende Museum assembled the Wall Along Wilshire in 2009 as a component of the Wall Project, the museum’s public art initiative commemorating the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. The Wende Museum invited L.A.-based artists Kent Twitchell, Farrah Karapetian and Marie Astrid González to participate in the project, pairing them with French-born, Berlin-based muralist Thierry Noir, who was one of the first artists to paint on the Berlin Wall in 1984. Through their participation, the installation recalls a stretch of the Berlin Wall known as the East Side Gallery, which was made famous by the international artists whose collective intervention transformed the Berlin Wall into a canvas reflecting real and imagined divisions. The last four segments contain original graffiti from Cold War-era Berlin, including an iconic image of Bimer’s green bear. The Wall Along Wilshire is a part of the Wende Museum’s permanent collection.
Visit the Wende Museum at 10808 Culver Blvd, Culver City, to see more art and artifacts from the Eastern Bloc.
Erected 2009 by The Wende Museum.
Topics and series. This historical marker is listed in these topic lists: Arts, Letters, Music • Hispanic Americans • War, Cold. In addition, it is included in the Berlin Wall series list.
Location. 34° 3.746′ N, 118° 21.515′ W. Marker is in Los Angeles, California, in Los Angeles County. It is in Miracle Mile. Marker is on Wilshire Boulevard east of Ogden Drive, on the right when traveling east. Touch for map. Marker is at or near this postal address: 5900 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles CA 90036, United States of America. Touch for directions.
Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within walking distance of this marker. Chester Stock, Ph.D. / Observation Pit (about 700 feet away, measured in a direct line); Hancock Park (approx. 0.2 miles away); Carthay Circle (approx. 0.4 miles away); Jedediah Strong Smith (approx. 0.4 miles away); Daniel O. McCarthy (approx. half a mile away); Juan Bautista de Anza (approx. half a mile away); "Snowshoe" Thompson (approx. 0.6 miles away); The History of Gilmore Oil Company 1900-1945 (approx. 0.7 miles away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Los Angeles.
More about this marker. This marker and Berlin Wall Segments are located in front of an office building, across the street from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. The Wende Museum is five miles southwest of here, in Culver City. "Wende" (pronounced "venda"), a German word meaning "turning point," refers to the collapse of communist East Germany in 1989 and more broadly represents the end of Soviet communism in Eastern Europe.
Also see . . . Wende Museum. (Submitted on October 22, 2018.)
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