The “Gallery Tour: Mercedes Matter: A Retrospective” workshop was one that I was excited to attend. Baruch, being a business school, focuses a lot on the factual side of the world and I was eager to experience the artistic side. Sadly, I was disappointed by the experience. I attended the workshop thinking I would be able to walk into a building with white walls and hung paintings waiting for me to examine them. In actuality, I had to wait for at least 45 minutes before entering the gallery. When I entered the building, the end of the line was close to the entrance. I joined the line under the impression that the gallery had not opened yet. The workshop, according to the information on the Baruch website, was supposed to start at 1pm and I arrived there at 12:50pm. After standing on line for 20 minutes I realized that they were only allowing a specific number of people in at a time. The best part of the workshop I would say was the security guard. He was humorous and was able to give me information the people in charge were unable to provide me with. I found out that it was a tour of the gallery rather than being able to view the paintings at my own leisure. I also found out from the security guard that they were only allowing 20 people in at a time. When I entered the gallery, I was immediately rushed to place my book bag in a designated area, sign in and wait for the tour to start. I would like to say the tour guide was doing a good job after conducting the tour a few times already but the tour was still unbelievably boring. It could’ve been because I was restless after standing on line for so long or because the tour was mostly factual rather than various interpretations of the painting. The tour guide stopped at a couple of paintings from the gallery rather than allowing the group to examine all of Mercedes Matter’s art work. There were paintings that I would’ve loved to spend more time with but was unable to. One painting was a painting of various features of a face: eyes, nose, and lips. I was disappointed because I wanted to examine the paintings more and discuss them with friends rather than having someone talk about them. I would not recommend this workshop. If you wanted to view paintings by Mercedes Matter I would recommend a Museum.