The Jewish Museum in Berlin may be one of the best well-designed museums I have seen. Featuring an unconventional architecture, the museum dedicates different sections to the Jewish community before, during, and after the Holocaust. It is a space for reflection and for hope. The path of the museum starts with the underground, called the…

In one of my conversations with Hibo, we talked about how different – how much easier – our study abroad experience would have been had we been white men. We have gotten exhausted with having to be constantly aware of looks and remarks. However, I’ve also met and had the best interactions with other Vietnamese people…

Perhaps one of the most underrated, understated pieces that I was in love with at Documenta is Nilima Sheikh’s Terrain: Carrying Across, Leaving Behind at the Neue Galerie. A sculpture of sixteen canvas scrolls, attached next to each other in a wooden frame. On each scrolls, Sheikh paints figures and landscapes, while printing stories, prose,…

Before going on this OCS trip, I have never taken an art history class, despite being an artist and having a great interest in looking at art. Towards the beginning of the program, reaching Venice, I was definitely in awe of the sights and the surroundings as a first time tourist in Europe. The Biennial…

Venice is truly a place for celebrity sighting, considering we stumbled into Joe Jonas in a dark alley on a random weekend night; however, seeing Mickey Mouse, Alec Baldwin and Julianne Moore left me thinking a lot for many weeks to come. I saw Mickey Mouse at Punta Della Dogana, and boy I couldn’t believe…