What Documenta Left Behind In Athens (And What It Didn’t)

“‘Too bad that it won’t be here anymore,’ says an older woman wearing a large grey ponytail. She’s talking about the free food at the colorful pavilion on Athens’s Kotzia Square. The woman probably doesn’t know that it’s really an art project by Pakistani artist Rasheed Araeen … ‘You have to be pretty brash as a Documenta visitor to sit here and eat the food when there are many who need it more,’ comments one German guest.”