Corporate sponsors are becoming a vital part of national participation in the ostensibly non-commercial event
An exhibition of collaborative works will reside in St Mark’s Square through the winter
The painter has drawn on the city’s violent creative power to consider Mary, motherhood and muses
The director and star returns to the role of Poirot in a creepshow brimming with stars and confidence
Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos takes home top prize five years after coming second with ‘The Favourite’
The city’s sixth week-long celebration of the art form looks back to past masters and forward to the medium’s future
Annual event lacks many of its biggest names as others use it as a platform to attack streaming services
Luc Besson offers an outré mash-up of ‘Taxi Driver’ and ‘Lassie’ but the actors’ strike dampens the mood
Tourists flocking to Greek islands and Italian cities are pricing out public sector workers and students
Even in summer, a self-drive, live-aboard boat offers an antidote to overtourism
Curator Lesley Lokko’s focus on Africa and its diaspora has inspired creative work — and few buildings
The Ghanaian-Scottish academic, the event’s first curator of African origin, is focusing on voices from the continent
The country’s contribution to the architecture biennale takes the form of an ancient mazelike fort
Plus: an exhibition of photos from Vogue and Vanity Fair at the Palazzo Grassi shines a spotlight on the 20th century
The V&A shows how a ‘colonial’ style in fact always had diverse influences and practitioners
Prime property with easy access to wonderful waterways
Fraser shines, in a grotesquely large fat-suit, in the pitiless yet empathetic film
The dissident artist on his remarkable Venetian exhibition, his mortality, and the complicity of capitalism in China
Artisans in Florence, boat races in Venice and an extraordinary show of might in Lazio – what to see and where to stay this September
The Australian says he harnesses the power of deafening music and violent images to think about our capacity for war
A selection of prime properties in La Serenissima, all well placed for enjoying the city’s biennale art fair, currently under way
British, Ukrainian and French artists bring work that speaks to the political present — but also offer fun
How to snack to the max in the home of cicchetti
The exhibition’s chief curator aims to evoke notions of change and transformation