Going to Italy from Japan just to attend to the Venice biennale is a monumental waste of time and money, especially if you consider the incredible amount of masterworks you can find literally EVERYWHERE in Italy: you can throw a dart to a map, enter the closest church, and you will find better art pieces than the biennale. You visit the Duomo in Milan and you see Michelangelo's Pietà right beside the entrance; you go to the local art university, and there you find Leonardo's Last Soup. In Rome you can just enter in one of the hundreds of churches, and you are met with three Caravaggio's. Every major city has at least one world renowned piece of historical relevance, and you waste your time and money to see a lamp fixture made with used tampons...