"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."
Every year around Christmas, Milan's Museo Diocesano temporarily hosts a masterpiece: last year, it was the predella from the Oddi Altarpiece, an Annunciation scene by Raphael, while in 2021 we had another Annunciation scene by Titian. This year, the initiative surpasses itself with one of...
The new exhibition at Palazzo Reale, showcasing works by Patrizia Mussa, complements the inauguration of the new operatic season at La Scala, a theatre that makes a point of not doing anything people might like (if I see again the Dame aux Camélias I might...
When the Richard-Ginori porcelain factory first announced they were having financial troubles, my mother declared a day of mourning, and we had to order pizza. They officially declared bankruptcy in 2013 after leaving a scar in the suburban area of southern Milan, where the 1870...
Kate Crawford and Ivladan Joler present us a monumental work, through the temporary exhibition Calculating Empires currently on display at the Osservatorio Fondazione Prada (Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II). It's going to stay on for two months only (it closes on January, 29th to be precise)...
All'Osservatorio della Fondazione Prada in Galleria Vittorio Emanuele a Milano è stata inaugurata da poco una mostra chiamata Calculating Empires (Imperi Calcolatori, o Imperi del Calcolo), a cura di Kate Crawford e Vladan Joler. Kate Crawford è l'autrice di libri come Né intelligente né artificiale: Il...
Bruges is a truly enchanting city, especially if you have a soft spot for waterways, and it's truly difficult to select only four things to see (but I had to: they were two in Ghent, three in Antwerp...
Standing at the centre of the most populated municipality in Belgium, Antwerp is the second-largest city in the Country after Bruxelles, and it's a charming harbour city sitting on the Westerschelde estuary. Its name is said to come from the Dutch handwerpen, "hand throwing", because...
Ghent is a charming and underrated city in the upper region of Belgium, halfway between Bruxelles and the much more famous Bruges. Now, if you go to Bruges first you'll understand why Ghent is not so famous, and that's why I recommend you to visit...
As a passionate geometry student since I was a kid, Morandi and De Chirico have always fascinated me, though I must admit they don't always spark an emotional response in me. Palazzo Reale dedicates to the metaphysical Italian painter Giorgio Morandi a neat exhibition, curated...
Let me start with one simple but fundamental assumption: I hate Rodin. Not artistically, of course, but I think he was a sick piece of shit and a bastard through and through, who used women, abused Camille Claudel both emotionally and artistically, stole her stuff,...
