"All this he saw, for one moment breathless and intense, vivid on the morning sky; and still, as he looked, he lived; and still, as he lived, he wondered."
As usual for Easter and Christmas, the nearby church of Saint Eustorgio makes an effort to borrow a single masterpiece from someone, and then explains the shit out of it through a dedicated installation. This Christmas, it's the time of a Nativity by Lorenzo Lotto,...
On Sunday, we wanted to go to the theatre to see The Book of Mormon, but the show was cancelled, so we decided to go and see an art exhibition instead. I tre grandi di Spagna: l’Arte di Dalí, Miró e Picasso promises to look...
There are cities that seduce by excess, by grand vertical gestures, by spectacle, by the dazzling promise of visibility. And there are others, quieter ones, that prefer to act by undercurrent, by persistence, by relation. Milan belongs to the second kind, in my opinion. And...
Today we talk about a very special exhibition here in Milan, one that approaches art from a not-so-common angle, and that seems to collect the threads of some other exhibitions I really enjoyed here in the city. The exhibition is titled "Art from Inside: Masterpieces...
After a decade-long absence, the visionary genius of Maurits Cornelis Escher returns to the city with M.C. Escher – Between Art and Science, the new exhibition at MUDEC running from September 25, 2025, to February 8, 2026. We step into Escher’s fascinating labyrinth of geometry...
Last season, Milan hosted at Palazzo Reale a long-overdue retrospective of what quickly became one of my favourite contemporary artists, alongside Niki de Saint-Phalle: Leonor Fini. I wrote about it here. Saint-Phalle herself had been hosted at MUDEC in the same period (see here). This Autumn,...
The words Terrae Motus — if you know latin — is enough to give you a hint, an echo, a vibration, a tremor that goes beyond the earth. Earthquakes often prompt a movement of conscience as much as of matter, and it is precisely this...
I first discovered the exhibition almost by chance, when a friend suggested we visit the aquarium in Monaco on our way back from a vacation and, as we approached the Musée Océanographique, your eyes might miss the towering poster on its facade: a luminous vision...
I know, I know, it's hot.And if you're still in Milan — maybe marooned here because of a project that just couldn't wait or simply because life sucks or because, on the contrary, you enjoy the empty city just as I do — I've got...
I'm on vacation in Southern France, and yesterday we wandered into L’Océan de Léa, an immersive world crafted entirely from paper at the Centre des Congrès OcéaNice in Nice. The installation is a vast, dreamy seascape sculpted by the master origami-artist Junior Fritz Jacquet, and it’s definitely...
