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The dilemma of saving Venice: Lagoon or city?

Throughout history, Venetians have learned to live with high tides, known as acqua alta. But now, climate change is taking its toll on the ancient city, with flooding increasing in both frequency and intensity. Massive barriers, which temporarily separate the Venetian lagoon from the sea, have been designed to fend…

France 24

Eight last-minute breaks you can book for the Jubilee long weekend

It's not too late to get away for the four-day holiday

Wales Online

New York Sneaker Expo Presents Some of Virgil Abloh's Last Works

Some of Virgil Abloh's final creations will be on public display in New York in an expo that also confers further mystique to the lucrative world of specialty sneakers. Opening Saturday and running through the end of May, the show will present 47 customized Nike "Air Force 1" sneakers designed…

Asharq Al-Awsat

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Move over Cannes: 10 of Europe’s best summer film festivals

The star-studded French fest starts today, but the coming months bring plenty more celebrations of the big screen – in stunning settings

The Guardian - UK

Venice Biennale 2022: Marco Fusinato takes over Australia Pavilion with 200 days of guitar performance and spectacle

Marco Fusinato's installation DESASTRES at the Venice Biennale has been described as "powerful [and] hypnotic" and one of the best national pavilions at the prestigious contemporary art exhibition.

ABC News

At the Venice Biennale, Art Begins to Leave Identity Politics Behind

The much-anticipated, Covid-delayed global showcase sees artists firmly moving away from figuration and toward a new end: the message.

Businessweek

Robin Abcarian: Don't kid yourself. The riots that shocked us 30 years ago could easily happen again

Thirty years ago, the Venice enclave of Oakwood was one of the few residential neighborhoods beset by widespread rioting after four Los Angeles police officers were acquitted in the beating of Rodney King.

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TUI to offer train tickets instead of short-haul flights to discourage plane travel

Six routes to Copenhagen, Prague, Vienna, Venice, Milan and Florence will now be offered as rail journeys instead of plane travel for TUI customers in the Netherlands

Daily Mirror

LA mayoral hopefuls agree addressing homelessness is crucial but disagree on how

LOS ANGELES — As encampments multiply from Echo Park to Venice, homelessness has been the top issue in the L.A. mayoral race. And although Angelenos express broad support for building more housing for the homeless, the contenders say that can be only part of the solution.

Tribune News Service

Homeless shelters work to end choice between street and pets

Traditional homeless shelters have long been off limits to pets, leaving animal owners who want to get off the streets with a difficult choice

The Independent UK

Italy is launching a digital nomad visa

Italy will soon roll out a new visa that allows remote workers to live in Italy even though their jobs are based abroad. Supporters hope it will attract high-earning workers and spark innovation.

WEKU

First eyewitness account of LA Sheriff Alex Villanueva lying in a cover-up revealed in filing

LOS ANGELES — A former top-ranking Los Angeles County sheriff's official filed a legal claim Thursday that offered the first eyewitness account of Sheriff Alex Villanueva allegedly lying about his involvement in a cover-up and also made allegations about retaliation and other improprieties in the Sheriff's Department.

Los Angeles Times

US Army ‘Returns’ Cake to Italian Woman for 90th Birthday

With a round of "Happy Birthday" in Italian and English, the US Army toasted an Italian woman with a birthday cake Thursday to replace the one that US soldiers ate as they entered her hometown during one of the final battles of World War II. Meri Mion, who turns 90…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Italian woman, 72, to walk Marco Polo’s path from Venice to Beijing

Vienna Cammarota will tread the Silk Road in 13,000-mile ‘walk for peace’

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From June 2022, tourists looking to explore the city for the day will have to pay up to €10 to enter the canal city.

The Guardian - UK

Cyborgs, sirens and a singing murderer: the thrilling, oligarch-free Venice Biennale – review

The Russian pavilion is closed and you can’t speak in the Italian one. Thank goodness for the opium-smoking cat and the human turning into a mobile phone. Our writer reports from the groundbreaking arts spectacular

Evening Standard

What to see at the Venice Biennale, from Sonia Boyce to the Sami Pavilion

The Venice Biennale is back and it’s as thrilling as ever, but what should you take the time to see?

The Guardian - UK

59th Venice Biennale review – the women’s biennale

In a seismic year, female artists take centre stage, while a timid institutional response leaves Ukraine to valiantly fend for itself

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British artist Sonia Boyce wins Golden Lion at Venice Biennale

Winning piece, Feeling Her Way, described as ‘perfect selection for this time in UK history’

The Guardian - UK

Antony Gormley: ‘I’m inviting people to explore the conditions of their own living’

His towering figures have made him the UK’s most famous sculptor. Now, in two new works, the artist is reckoning with the very essence of time and space

Asharq Al-Awsat

Female Artists Dominate the Venice Biennale for 1st Time

For the first time in the 127-year history of the Venice Biennale, the world’s oldest and most important contemporary art fair features a majority of female artists, under the curatorial direction of Cecilia Alemani. The result is a Biennale that puts the spotlight on artists who have been long overlooked…

The Independent UK

US artist Leigh recasts colonial imagery at Venice Biennale

American sculptor Simone Leigh is the first Black woman to headline the U.S. Pavilion at the Venice Biennale contemporary art fair

The Independent UK

Ukrainian artist makes cultural stand at Venice Biennale

Artist Pavlo Makov’s role representing Ukraine at the Venice Biennale has become an act of defiance against the Russian invaders, whose attacks on his adopted hometown of Kharkiv have grown more intense in recent days

The Independent UK

One of Venice’s most iconic landmarks open to public for first time

The recognisable St Mark’s Square building can now be explored, including its rooftop

The Guardian - UK

‘We are fighting for our culture’: Ukrainian artists head to Venice Biennale

Pavlo Makov was reluctant to leave Kharkiv but after sleeping in a bomb shelter for a week, he decided he had to represent Ukraine

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