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Hallucinogenic Night at the Museum: A Perfect Date in Milan

Hallucinogenic Night at the Museum: A Perfect Date in Milan

EXHIBITION
Night at the museum? Why not? If you are really ready for such a unique experience of passing an entire night at a museum all by yourself, do it in Milan. The Pirelli Hangar Bicocca Foundation, famous for its contemporary art and design events, offers a very particular experience of spending the whole night in an exhibition hall packed with lighting installations by Carsten Höller.

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Biennale di Venezia 2016: “Reporting from the Front” by Alejandro Aravena

Biennale di Venezia 2016: “Reporting from the Front” by Alejandro Aravena

EXHIBITION
Do you know why “Biennale di Venezia” is called “Biennale”? I don’t. What I do know is that once every two years it organizes the world’s most important architectural event. This is the year when you can discover the latest design visions, building concepts and the most inspiring hints brought in from all over of our planet into a single place: the Venice Biennale.

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WHAT IS THIS GOLDEN BUILDING? Haunted House at Fondazione Prada in Milan

WHAT IS THIS GOLDEN BUILDING? Haunted House at Fondazione Prada in Milan

MUSEUM
Chic, mysterious and technologic. These are the first impressions that one person has entering the recently opened Prada Foundation in Milan. This new space for contemporary art is more than just a museum. Designed by the world renowned architect Rem Koolhaas, Fondazione Prada is a great (and reassuring) story that illustrates how an abandoned industrial space can turn into a precious (literally golden!) spot for art lovers.

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Masterpiece Frescoes in Milan

Masterpiece Frescoes in Milan

ART IN MILAN
Did you know that Milan has a church that can easily compete with the famous Sistine Chapel depicted by Michelangelo? Apparently small and humble San Maurizio al Monastero Maggiore located in Corso Magenta 13 (only 5 minutes walk from Duomo di Milano) veils perhaps the biggest artistic treasure of the city.

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Unique and identical Juan Munoz’s human figures

Unique and identical Juan Munoz’s human figures

ART & EXHIBITIONS
Recently Hangar Bicocca in Milan has displayed extraordinary works of Madrid born artist Juan Munoz (1953-2001). Hundreds of anonymous human figures filled the dark and suggestive industrial space of the museum. The 15 most important installations signed by the Spanish sculptor brought evocative etudes on anxiety and loneliness issues, interaction games, physiological tricks and optical illusions, and involving spectators into these works of art.

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Best of Expo: desert city at the UAE Pavilion

Best of Expo: desert city at the UAE Pavilion

EXPO 2015
This pavilion is a dramatic canyon-like space defined by undulating 12-metre-high walls. The whole structure evokes an image of sand dunes hosting suggestive narrow pedestrian streets and small courtyards typical of an ancient desert town of the United Arab Emirates.

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