City guideMilan · Sat 17 – Sun 18 October
Milan this weekend: Luciano Fabro at HangarBicocca and Deep Purple
Luciano Fabro at HangarBicocca, Deep Purple, Milan v Atalanta, the Brueghels, Milano Wine Week’s first toast, and the last days of Arnaldo Pomodoro and Werner Bischof.
The weekend at a glance
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Saturday · 17 October
Sunday · 18 October
All weekend · Saturday and Sunday
Saturday
17 October
Sat 21:00From €60
Concert · Unipol Forum, Assago
Deep Purple at the Unipol Forum
Deep Purple, the British band behind Smoke on the Water and Highway Star, have been playing hard rock for more than half a century. Their indoor tour brings them to the Unipol Forum, Milan’s big arena in Assago.
The show starts at 21:00 on Saturday, after the English band Jayler at 19:45. Every ticket is seated, from €60. Take metro line 2 to Assago Milanofiori Forum.
Sat 18:00Free
Festival · CityLife
Milano Wine Week’s opening toast at CityLife
Milano Wine Week, now in its ninth year, fills the city with tastings, producer meetings and wine events for nine days, from Saturday 17 to Sunday 25 October, with more than a hundred around town.
It starts with a free opening toast at CityLife on Saturday at 18:00. Afterwards, the festival’s Enoteca at the Dazi by the Arco della Pace is free to enter all week, with tastings and workshops.
Sunday
18 October
Sun 18:00
Sport · San Siro
AC Milan v Atalanta at San Siro
AC Milan play Atalanta, the club from nearby Bergamo, in Serie A on Sunday. San Siro, the Giuseppe Meazza stadium, is one of the great football grounds of Europe, shared by Milan and Inter.
Kick-off is at 18:00 on Sunday, Matchday 7 of the season. Take metro line 5 to San Siro Stadio, and arrive an hour early to get through the gates.
All weekend
Saturday and Sunday
Sat and Sun, 10:30–20:30Free, book online
Exhibition · Pirelli HangarBicocca
Luciano Fabro at Pirelli HangarBicocca
Luciano Fabro, one of the leading artists of Arte Povera, worked with marble, glass, silk, lead, mirrors and paper. Abitare lo spazio is his first museum retrospective in Italy since his death in 2007: about fifty sculptures and installations.
Several of his paper habitats, rooms you walk into, have been rebuilt from his plans in the vast Navate. It’s open Thursday to Sunday, 10:30 to 20:30, and entry is free: book a slot online.
Sat and Sun, 10:00–19:30
Exhibition · Palazzo Reale
The Brueghels at Palazzo Reale
The Brueghels were a Flemish dynasty of painters, starting with Pieter Bruegel the Elder. Palazzo Reale’s exhibition, the first big one in Italy on the family, shows how they shaped whole genres of European painting.
More than 80 paintings, drawings and prints: snowy landscapes, storms at sea, still lifes, peasant feasts and battles. It’s open 10:00 to 19:30, last entry an hour before closing, beside the Duomo.
Sat and Sun, 9:30–19:00€12, free under 26
Exhibition · Gallerie d’Italia
Arnaldo Pomodoro at the Gallerie d’Italia
Arnaldo Pomodoro made bronze spheres and discs polished outside and torn open to show machine-like insides. Una vita follows more than sixty years of his work in about 45 pieces, with archive material.
This is the last weekend: it closes on Sunday 18 October. The Gallerie d’Italia on Piazza della Scala is open 9:30 to 19:00, last entry at 18:00. Tickets are €12, free under 26.
Sat and Sun, 10:00–22:30€9, €12 evenings with a drink
Exhibition · Museo Diocesano
Werner Bischof at the Museo Diocesano
Werner Bischof, the Swiss photographer of Magnum, travelled from postwar Europe to India, Japan and Peru. Point of View shows 200 of his pictures for the 110th anniversary of his birth, and this is its last weekend.
By day it’s open 10:00 to 18:00, €9. From 17:30 to 22:30 you can see it with a drink from the cloister bistro for €12, entering from Corso di Porta Ticinese 95.
Saturday
Sat 21:00
Deep Purple at the Unipol Forum
Deep Purple, the British band behind Smoke on the Water and Highway Star, have been playing hard rock for more than half a century. Their indoor tour brings them to the Unipol Forum, Milan’s big arena in Assago.
The show starts at 21:00 on Saturday, after the English band Jayler at 19:45. Every ticket is seated, from €60. Take metro line 2 to Assago Milanofiori Forum.
Unipol Forum Sat 18:00
Milano Wine Week’s opening toast at CityLife
Milano Wine Week, now in its ninth year, fills the city with tastings, producer meetings and wine events for nine days, from Saturday 17 to Sunday 25 October, with more than a hundred around town.
It starts with a free opening toast at CityLife on Saturday at 18:00. Afterwards, the festival’s Enoteca at the Dazi by the Arco della Pace is free to enter all week, with tastings and workshops.
Sunday
Sun 18:00
AC Milan v Atalanta at San Siro
AC Milan play Atalanta, the club from nearby Bergamo, in Serie A on Sunday. San Siro, the Giuseppe Meazza stadium, is one of the great football grounds of Europe, shared by Milan and Inter.
Kick-off is at 18:00 on Sunday, Matchday 7 of the season. Take metro line 5 to San Siro Stadio, and arrive an hour early to get through the gates.
San Siro Stadium All weekend
Sat and Sun, 10:30–20:30
Luciano Fabro at Pirelli HangarBicocca
Luciano Fabro, one of the leading artists of Arte Povera, worked with marble, glass, silk, lead, mirrors and paper. Abitare lo spazio is his first museum retrospective in Italy since his death in 2007: about fifty sculptures and installations.
Several of his paper habitats, rooms you walk into, have been rebuilt from his plans in the vast Navate. It’s open Thursday to Sunday, 10:30 to 20:30, and entry is free: book a slot online.
Pirelli Hangar Bicocca Sat and Sun, 10:00–19:30
The Brueghels at Palazzo Reale
The Brueghels were a Flemish dynasty of painters, starting with Pieter Bruegel the Elder. Palazzo Reale’s exhibition, the first big one in Italy on the family, shows how they shaped whole genres of European painting.
More than 80 paintings, drawings and prints: snowy landscapes, storms at sea, still lifes, peasant feasts and battles. It’s open 10:00 to 19:30, last entry an hour before closing, beside the Duomo.
Palazzo Reale di Milano Sat and Sun, 9:30–19:00
Arnaldo Pomodoro at the Gallerie d’Italia
Arnaldo Pomodoro made bronze spheres and discs polished outside and torn open to show machine-like insides. Una vita follows more than sixty years of his work in about 45 pieces, with archive material.
This is the last weekend: it closes on Sunday 18 October. The Gallerie d’Italia on Piazza della Scala is open 9:30 to 19:00, last entry at 18:00. Tickets are €12, free under 26.
Gallerie d’Italia Sat and Sun, 10:00–22:30
Werner Bischof at the Museo Diocesano
Werner Bischof, the Swiss photographer of Magnum, travelled from postwar Europe to India, Japan and Peru. Point of View shows 200 of his pictures for the 110th anniversary of his birth, and this is its last weekend.
By day it’s open 10:00 to 18:00, €9. From 17:30 to 22:30 you can see it with a drink from the cloister bistro for €12, entering from Corso di Porta Ticinese 95.
Museo Diocesano