After visiting this year’s documenta, I was struck by how much video art was included in the exhibition. Some of these works, such as the four-channel video installation at the Gleishaus, or the Douglas Gordon film being shown at the high-end theater Cinestar, required highly specific installation techniques. Some videos, however, were not so demanding…

My experience with my second global art exhibition, documenta 14, couldn’t be more different than the first. We spent a little less than a week steeped in the world of documenta, and I was lucky to have already visited the Venice Biennale as a point of comparison. I found myself returning to the differences between…

When I was studying abroad in Japan, I visited a shrine in Tokyo that I have continually thought about on this program as a point of comparison between how Japan has dealt with the legacy of World War II versus how Germany has dealt with the same issue. This shrine, called Yasukuni Jinja, essentially serves…

“the imagination demands the real thing and, to attain it, must fabricate the absolute fake.” -Umberto Eco, The Fortresses of Solitude I recently had the pleasure of visiting the Prada Foundation’s most recent exhibition, entitled The ship is sinking. The captain lied. It’s not the focus of this blog post, but in short, it’s an…

The Welsh pavilion, tucked away in a tiny, unassuming chapel just north of the Giardini and titled Music for the gift, has captured my heart and my attention. My classmates and I spent a little under two hours in an exhibit that occupies five rooms, and another hour and a half discussing it over cappuccinos afterwards….