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October 30, 2009

REPRESENTATION OF BERLIN WALL MARKS ANNIVERSARY

Suzan Filipek

EIGHT SEGMENTS OF the Berlin Wall are in a temporary exhibit on the lawn at 5900 Wilshire Blvd. Shown at the exhibit are, from left, David Mann, Miracle Mile Art Walk official; Cristina Cuervas-Wolf and Justinian Jampol of the Wende Museum.

To celebrate the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Wende Museum is staging “Wall Across Wilshire.” The museum will erect, and then topple a 60-foot-long symbolic representation of the wall across Wilshire Blvd. and Ogden Ave. on Sun., Nov. 8 beginning at 11 p.m.

In anticipation of the event, an exhibit of eight original sections of the 96-mile concrete Berlin Wall are on display on the lawn of the 5900 Wilshire Blvd. building through Sat., Nov. 14.

The five-foot wide panels have been purchased by the Culver City-based museum, which houses an archive of Eastern Europe and former Soviet block cold war culture.

The wall’s collapse on Nov. 9, 1989, signified the end of the division between West and East Germany and later, the end of the Communist rule in East Germany.

A replica wall will be erected across Wilshire Blvd. Preceding its fall, donors will attend a fundraiser for the museum featuring German chanteuse Ute Lemper, a DJ set by artist Shepard Fairey, and a live feed between Los Angeles and its sister city Berlin at the 5900 Wilshire building.

Tickets are $250. Call 310-216-1600 x 305.

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