Category: PEOPLE, PROJECTS, AND EXHIBITIONS
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2022 Venice Biennale: Technology and The Metamorphosis of the Body
The 59th International Venice Biennale is held from April 23 to November 27 this year. The title, “The Milk of Dreams”, took its name from a book by Leonora Carrington: a Mexican artist, surrealist painter, and a novelist. The Milk of Dreams is portrayed as a world where nothing is stable, thus constantly in a…
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BSAS x MuseoCity
Porta Romana guided tour Two Fridays ago, on October 21st, Bocconi Art Society BSAS and its community of art enthusiasts had the chance to dive into called students both from Bocconi and not for an immersion in the culture and history of Porta Romana district, in two unique steps. It was all made possible by…
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Ren Hang
“We were born nude; I just photographed things in their more natural conditions” Ren Hang has focused his photographic activity on the most explicit form of the human body: its nudity. The naked body is portrayed in different settings: in the middle of nowhere, on Beijing’s roofs or in the artist’s home. Models’ poses are…
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Louvre struggles to borrow key masterpiece from Italy for Leonardo Da Vinci’s 500-year anniversary exhibition
Political tensions between France and Italy have made it surprisingly difficult for the French museum to borrow “The Vitruvian Man” from Venice for his quincentennial anniversary of his death. The Louvre museum is organizing a major exhibition to celebrate the 500-year anniversary of Leonardo da Vinci’s death. However, just a few days before its opening…
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#bsastakesnaples
On the weekend of the 12th to the 14th April, BSAS headed south to Naples to soak in Southern Italian culture. Naples is sometimes only considered by tourists as a short stop before continuing to the Amalfi Coast, Capri or Pompei. This is a shame, because the city holds some well-known artworks along with hidden…
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Looking for things to visit, to see and to listen to in Milan in May 2019? Here is a list of things you might be interested in!
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Photography – testimony to an eternal moment
On April the 15th our BSAS association organized an interesting event about photography and some of its aspects that people usually ignore, or of which are not well informed. We invited two external guest, Angela Saltarelli and Roberto Mutti, respectively a lawyer specialized in art law and cultural heritage, and a photographic critic and curator.…
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Looking for things to visit, to see and to listen to in Milan in April 2019? Here is a list of things you might be interested in!
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The Youngest Area at Milan Design Week – Interview of Elif Reşitoğlu
Are you excited for the upcoming design week? A week from now Milan will host its annual Milan Design Week! Don’t you love Milan during design weeks, I personally do! It is amazing to see the designs in each and every corner of the city. Today, I have spoken with Elif Reşitoğlu, who is the co-founder…
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Louvre’s glass pyramid anniversary artwork destroyed within hours
On the 31rst March, France’s most prestigious museum celebrated the 30th anniversary of the now-iconic glass pyramid that acts as its modern entrance. For the occasion, the self-proclaimed French “photograffeur” JR (a play on words between photographer and graffiti artist) set out to cover some sides of the pyramid and the area around it to…
