A lack of a long-term plan combined with the economic benefits brought by the luxury liners means a cruise ship ban will take long to implement

A new report by Icomos details how the science/culture divide is stopping world heritage coming to the aid of climate change and urges speedy action

“Where have the ethics and sense of a global mandate to protect the world’s heritage gone?”, asks Francesco Bandarin

The non-governmental organisation Europa Nostra recommends that the World Heritage Committee put the lagoon city on the endangered list

The World Heritage Committee is meeting in Baku and intends to dodge declaring Venice endangered for the third time

Repair work on Mose is estimated to take ten years, calling the operational date of 2021 into question

Artist Melissa McGill teams up with Venetian sailors to celebrate maritime tradition in face of mass tourism and climate change

The mayor demands that liners use other channels to enter the lagoon but this solution also poses problems

More than 100 people ordered to leave after queueing for hours in the rain for the show that won the top prize

Planned Kiran Nadar Museum of Art will open up 6,000-strong collection to the public

An indoor beach, Mongolian throat singing and ceramic vaginas—where to go beyond the Arsenale and Giardini

Opening during the Venice Biennale, the new initiative includes project and exhibitions spaces and a foundation for young Polish art

We’ve seen a lot of exhibitions in the city so you don’t have to

Ben Luke and Jane Morris review the main exhibition and we speak to the artists Laure Prouvost and Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster about their works in the show. Plus, we talk about climate change and the challenges Venice is facing as the surrounding waters rise. Produced in association with Bonhams, auctioneers since 1793.

From Tuymans's Third Reich paintings, to Kounellis's poor materials, there's more to see in the city than the Venice Biennale

The Fondazione Prada exhibition of the Greek-Italian artist has been organised by veteran curator Germano Celant

With multi-artist spaces and the split between the Arsenale and Giardini, May You Live in Interesting Times offers a new way of looking at a biennial exhibition

Martin Puryear’s work is the springboard for a youth outreach programme while Mark Bradford continues prison rehabilitation programme

Ceramicist’s installation The library of exile, currently on show in Venice, will also travel to the Japanisches Palais in Dresden

From an aquatic odyssey to a guerrilla dance performance, here are the exhibitions we loved at the heart of the big event

Romanian artist, whose show is open at the Palazzo Cini during the Biennale, compares his art market ascendancy to working in porn

Cathy Wilkes, Charlotte Prodger and Sean Edwards are all showing new work at the 2019 Venice Biennale

Among the many official “collateral” exhibitions connected to the Biennale and independently organised shows, painting is noticeably abundant

It may be the most prestigious art event in the world, but be warned—it is also the most gruelling

National pavilions in Venice have long been criticised as anachronistic. But for nations newer to the event, such quibbling can seem like a luxury

From Hillary Clinton’s emails in a supermarket and a beach of opera singers, to the world’s largest plane carrying “all of Ukraine’s artists”

Historical importance, glamour, big spenders—it continues to be an art festival like no other

As a major new exhibition of his work opens in Venice, the Belgian painter explains how painting can help us confront our own ignorance

London-based gallery will team up with interior designer Chahan to create "home of a 21st-century Grand Tourist" in the medieval Abbazia di San Gregorio

Artists on show will include John Akomfrah, El Anatsui and Lynette Yiadom-Boakye