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Alan Bennett is back in the habit with brilliant but flawed play

18.11.09
Alan Bennett's The Habit of Art is funny and sometimes brilliantly so, but strangely uninvolving.... more

Wood you believe it: Venice goes plastic

23.10.09
Venice is set to lose its trademark striped wooden mooring poles and canal markers as they are swapped for plastic ones, ending a 600-year-old tradition... more

Venice in Peril fears port expansion will sink city

07.09.09
Italian authorities plan to expand Venice's port into a busy shipping hub, further endangering the fragile lagoon and contributing to the sinking of the city, a conservation group has said... more

Sports centre that grows on you

10.08.09
London's 'greenest' sports centre opens with a grass roof, wind-catchers instead of air conditioning and recycled flooring... more

National launches eGallery for Old Masters

21.07.09
National Gallery becomes first major art collection to allow internet users to zoom electronically into any picture in its archive... more

The endless quest for the perfect bikini

03.07.09
Hermione Eyre is on a quest for the perfect swimwear. From a 1920s 'suicide suit' to a Brancusi-inspired swimming cap, she charts her life in Lycra ... more

Triumph of love and tax: Titian left to the nation goes on show

23.06.09
A £1million painting by Titian given to the nation in lieu of death taxes will go on show at the National Gallery next month... more

Not enough worth buying at Summer Exhibition

15.06.09
Go to the Royal Academy's Summer Exhibition if you must, but for God's sake, don't take your chequebook, says Ben Lewis.... more

British film reveals 'illicit' side of Venice

04.06.09
The Venice Biennale is one of the biggest and most glamorous occasions in the art world, where cutting-edge exhibits compete for attention among the international glitterati gathered in the Giardini gardens... more

Locations get star role in Pinewood’s £200m plan

01.06.09
Pinewood Studios today submitted its planning application for a £200 million expansion to give film-makers access to one of the biggest selections of ready-made locations in the world ... more

Seaweed power to light up Venice

24.03.09
Chinese seaweed which is invading Venice could be used to produce electricity for the city in a £200million project... more

Huge home for the Haunch

11.03.09
The Haunch of Venison, one of London's most successful private galleries, has set up shop in the former Museum of Mankind.... more

Sickert in Venice as you've never seen it before

06.03.09
While other artists gloried in the city of Venice's light, Sickert skulked in the shadows, painting gloomy views and prostitutes.... more

Sex in Venice ... the making of Sickert

03.03.09
Paintings produced during Walter Sickert's life-changing visit to Venice have been brought together for the first time... more

Venice 'sells out' in $2m Coca-Cola sponsorship

24.02.09
Coca-cola has agreed a $2 million deal to sponsor Venice, causing outrage from critics, who said the city was "selling its cultural soul" ... more

Tourists warned to stay out of flood-hit Venice

01.12.08
Tourists were urged to stay away from Venice as the city experienced its worst flooding in 30 years... more

The £12m Venice souvenir

24.10.08
Two classic views of Venice by the Italian master Canaletto are to go on show in London... more

Daddy duty: Brad Pitt arrives in Venice with sons Maddox and Pax in tow

26.08.08
Hollywood star Brad Pitt jetted into Italy today ahead of the opening of the Venice film festival. The star made it a family affair, bringing along his two eldest sons seven-year-old Maddox and Pax, four.... more

Comment: Homes for all

18.07.08
Westminster Council's plans to build more than 500 new homes are a positive development - as long as they come to fruition... more

Slow boat through China

31.01.08
Jia Zhangke's fifth feature, Still Life, sees beautiful cinematography but may not be a film for everybody.... more

The glories of old Venice ring out

17.01.08
The stones of Venice may crumble and sink but joyful performances like this La Sposalizio, show that its music is imperishable.... more

Merchant without menace

29.06.07
Rebecca Gatward's production of Merchant of Venice fails to get going, with a bland performance from John McEnery in the lead role... more

Whose art is it anyway?

08.06.07
Tracey Emin may be representing Britain at the Venice Biennale, the Olympics of contemporary art, but why are Sam Taylor-Wood and Mark Titchner batting for Ukraine?... more

Exuberant Vivaldi

08.06.07
Period instrument group La Serenissima performed a programme devoted to Vivaldi at the Spitalfields Festival... more

Emin represents Britain at Venice Biennale

07.06.07
Tracey Emin became only the second solo British female artist to represent Britain at the Venice Biennale of Art... more

Bewitching decadence

25.05.07
English National Opera's first ever staging of Britten's last opera, Death in Venice, is a typically thoughtful treatment by Deborah Warner and exquisitely designed by Tom Pye.... more

A tourist's take on London

29.01.07
Canaletto may have spent nearly a decade in the capital but a new exhibition in Dulwich reveals that it never inspired him as much as Venice, says Brian Sewell.... more

Decidedly deaf in Venice

20.11.06
W.S. Gilbert would have exploded at the use of surtitles with The Gondoliers but without them the audience watching this ENO production would have been a bit lost.... more

Genius on a small scale

04.09.06
Adam Elsheimer painted very small pictures and died when he was 32 but, as the new exhibition at the Dulwich Gallery will show, his influence was felt throughout Europe.... more

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