Panel Discussion | After the End of History: Art, Monumentality, and Geopolitics

Wednesday, October 29, 2014, 7 - 7pm

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A panel discussion in conjunction with the 41 Cooper Square Gallery exhibtion Monument to Cold War Victory with Olena Chervonik (curator, Izolyatsia, Donetsk, Ukraine), Boris Groys (critic and theorist), Nina Khrushcheva (scholar and senior fellow, World Policy Institute), artists Vitaly Komar and Lisi Raskin, and Nato Thompson (curator, Creative Time).

Located at 41 Cooper Square, on Third Avenue between 6th and 7th Streets.

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