Traveling the world for art is by no means an all-inclusive notion.  It plays into notions of capitalism and can undermine the audiences experience of large exhibitions like Kassel’s Documenta as art critics often rush through the exhibition and are unable to see all of the exhibition.  Although I generally disagree with traveling for the…

Skulptur Projekte Munster has changed my perception of sculpture.  Until recently my perception of sculpture has been a bronze, stone, wood, marble, or other construction material in some form that typically does not invite audience members to physically engage with it.  Sculptures were supposed to be a monument like Michelangelo’s David or Constantin Brancusi’s Bird…

Before I left for Spain in mid-July, I was advised to go inside any Gaudi place I came across while in Barcelona.  The first day I was in Barcelona I did not understand what that meant but the next day I stumbled upon a Gaudi exhibition.  At first the exhibition seemed to present Antoni Gaudi…

Performance based art has been a reoccurring theme at the Venice Biennale and Documenta.  In the Venice Biennale, we saw the Venice pavilion and the German pavilion.  At Documenta we saw Documenta Halle and “Zero to Infinity” by Rasheed Araeen.  The amount of communal spaces, manipulative art, and other forms of performance style art creates…

My name is Kellen Dorchen, I am a prospective computer science and now art history double major from South Carolina, class of 2020.  This is my first time outside of the U.S. not including two brief trips to Canada growing up.  My flight was a struggle and luggage was not much better but arriving in…