"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."
Last month, I caught the opportunity of a few meetings I had in Venice and stayed around to catch this exhibition at the splendid Peggy Guggenheim Foundation, and it was stunning. You have time until March 2nd, and I strongly recommend you make time, if...
The exhibition Nocturnes, hosted in the Canovian Rooms of the Museo Correr in Venice, stages works by Karen LaMonte alongside classical statues and it's the first appointment in the Dialoghi Canoviani programme, which aims to place contemporary artistic research in direct dialogue with the museum’s...
When Giorgio Armani died, back in September last year, they honoured him with two exhibitions: one at his Armani Silos, and a temporary installation of his dresses at the Pinacoteca di Brera. I managed to go and see the latter, a few weeks ago, with...
I was able to catch this exhibition during its last few days, and I'm glad I did. Pellizza da Volpedo: i capolavori, hosted at the Galleria d’Arte Moderna (GAM) in Villa Reale, is a major retrospective dedicated to one of Italy’s most compelling painters between...
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,...
