Art

Art

The real Milan is inside these 11 museums

From historic architecture to post-industrial conversions, from house museums to vast exhibition spaces: here are the galleries and museums of Milan you should have seen at least once in your lifetime.

Ecce Homo

A small panel marking the beginning of the most radical investigation into the face of suffering in the Renaissance: Antonello da Messina’s Ecce Homo, long held in private collections, has now been acquired by the Italian state for $14.9 million.

Andrés Jaque

We don’t inhabit environments, we are the environment

We interviewed the Chief Curator of the 13th Shanghai Biennale, entitled “Bodies of Water” who describes Biennale’s as reality-sensing-devices.

Romeo and Juliet

Four hundred and thirty-one years after Romeo and Juliet’s London debut, the myth of the two lovers of Verona continues to challenge art. Starting from the emotional urgency imposed by Shakespeare, and passing through the canvases of Hayez, Brown, and Dicksee, the story of their tragedy moved beyond the stage to take on form, color, and feeling.