Why I should have moved my trip to Europe back a month...

Also called: How Lindsay switches gears from the Political to the Aesthetic (the Aesthetic clearly being more important, duh).

Besides the Venice Biennale (which started June 10th) and Art Basel (which ran June 4th-8th) which I would have loved to attend there are two other festivals which, I think, would have provided me with endless endless pleasure...

The first is the Prague Quadrennial (June14th-24th), which is the world's largest festival for theatre design and set work. Amazing amazing amazing and I didn't even know they had this until this year, courtesy of the NYTimes. Here is said article. But back to my gushing: OhmyGoodness theatrical performances from all over the world and giant sets and Prague transformed into the theatre capital of the world and all this a scant two weeks after I was actually in Prague?! Grumble.

The second is like, the meaning of my life: Documenta, this year in its 12th incarnation. I remember reading about Documenta 11 five years ago, an article about the chief curator. He was African and had neither a Ph.D. in art history nor any curatorial experience and it was an uber-big-deal and all that. And I thought to myself: Wow, I'd love to attend a Documenta one day. But...Documenta only occurs every five years. And it is in Kassel, which is in Germany. I should have taken this into consideration when planning my trip to Europe but anyhow I'll have to go in 2012, when I'm 27...and hopefully almost done with my Ph.D. Documenta 12 runs from June 16th to September 23rd. I'm sure I'll make it to at least one Documenta in my lifetime, as I want to study contemporary art but oh...the pain the pain.
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At least I'll be able to see the Richard Serra retrospective at the MoMA this summer. Mm, giant metal works that feel like they're swallowing me...yay...