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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Sound check: German industrial metal band Rammstein literally play with fire in their live performances - and now they are about to unleash their singeing spectacle on London. Watch out for your eyebrows
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