Cold War museum in the middle of LA - with Joes Segal (Wende Museum)

#41 - in conversation with chief curator of Wende Museum in Los Angeles, Joes Segal. Upon visiting California (U. S.) Patrycja speaks to historian and curator Joes Segal about the history and programming of the Wende Museum. The Wende is an art museum, cultural center, and archive of the Cold War that explores social, political, and cultural change. The conversation revolves around the value of Soviet artifacts, the power of art in understanding the complexities of history, as well as contemporary ways of speaking about the broadly defined - socialist art.  References: Wende Museum Utrecht University UCLA  Books by Joes Segal: Paul Lerner and Joes Segal, eds., Alternative Realities: Utopian Thought in Times of Political Rupture, Bulletin of the German Historical Institute Supplement 14 (Washington, DC: German Historical Institute, 2019)   Joes Segal, ed., Art and Politics: Between Purity and Propaganda, (Amsterdam: AUP 2016) Joes Segal, ed., Socialist Culture and Modernity, special issue of the International Journal for History, Culture and Modernity vol. 2 no. 2 (2014).  Peter Romijn, Giles Scott-Smith and Joes Segal, eds., Divided Dreamworlds? The Cultural Cold War in East and West (Amsterdam: AUP 2012). Uta Balbier, Cristina Cuevas Wolf and Joes Segal, eds., East German Material Culture and the Power of Memory (Washington, DC: German Historical Institute, 2011).  Favourite home food: Dutch Pea Soup  ___ Buy me a coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/kitchenconversations Become a Patron: https://www.patreon.com/kitchenconversations Visit shop: https://www.etsy.com/de-en/shop/PatrycjaRozwora?ref=shop-header-name&listing_id=1398125905&from_page=listing Get in touch: https://www.instagram.com/kitchenconversations.podcast/ ___ Recording & editing: Patrycja Rozwora Mix & master: Jonas Kröper