The money will be divided between improvements to the original Peggy Guggenheim Collection and a feasibility study for the Foundation’s expansion

Piazza San Marco hosts the first Italian exhibition dedicated to the artist since his death

The sculpture that adorns the churches and palaces of Venice is being damaged beyond retrieval by pollution and vandalism

Lagoon barriers rejected by the Green minister of the environment

The report of the national commission on the project is due 21 October

Decisive days for Venice

The Adelson Galleries explores Sargent's sketches and watercolours from his many journeys

At a projected $50.7 million, theirs was not the cheapest plan proposed, but the fastest and technically the best

This month Italian government reaches decision on national oil company’s plan to extract gas from Adriatic

The rubble began to be cleared from the burnt-out shell of the theatre in May, as rumours leaked from the judicial enquiry that the fire which destroyed it in January may have been arson. There is no proof, however, and investigations continue, while the mayor of Venice, Massimo Cacciari, tries to speed up the rebuilding by putting the town hall technical department in charge of drawing up the preliminary plan

Palazzo Grassi's “Greeks in the West” exhibition is pulling in the visitors

A company owned 51% by the town council and 49% by the Réunion des Musées Nationaux

A marriage of science and spectacle

Newly discovered drawings now on show

Fiat’s cultural showplace, the Palazzo Grassi, collaborates for the first time ever with a Venetian museum

Highlights include the “Vitruvian Man”

A French magazine suggests that the Adriatic city should be put in the charge of the EC, echoing a proposal by the European Commissioner for the Environment

Leonardo the artist and the scientist will be on show

Plans to replace Milan with Venice as a candidate have been scrapped