The Local Italy https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Italy in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed Venice Biennale: Will the pandemic usher in a new era of architecture? The world's most prestigious architecture event, the Venice Architecture Biennale, opens on Saturday for a six-month show exploring the question of coexistence in a post-pandemic world. https://www.thelocal.it/20210522/venice-biennale-asks-whether-pandemic-is-ushering-a-new-era-of-architecture Sat, 22 May 2021 12:39:54 +0200 venice-biennale-asks-whether-pandemic-is-ushering-a-new-era-of-architecture The Arsenale stuffed with guns, stripped of hope The Venice Biennale is a kind of two-yearly Great Pacific garbage patch of art: a slick of official exhibits, national representations, collateral shows, non-accredited pop-ups, the old and the new, the brilliant and the dire, that sprawls over the city and spreads to nearby islands. https://www.thelocal.it/20150514/the-arsenale-stuffed-with-guns-stripped-of-hope Thu, 14 May 2015 10:00:29 +0200 the-arsenale-stuffed-with-guns-stripped-of-hope 'Mosque' sparks trouble at Venice Biennale Iceland sparked controversy on the opening day of the Biennale art fair in the Italian city of Venice by turning a disused church into a mosque. https://www.thelocal.it/20150511/mosque-sparks-controversy-at-venice-biennale Mon, 11 May 2015 09:30:40 +0200 mosque-sparks-controversy-at-venice-biennale Architects descend on Venice for Biennale World architects gathered in Venice for the Biennale festival starting on Saturday, bringing together 65 national pavilions and taking up the 3,000 square metres (32,300 square feet) of the Arsenale shipyards. https://www.thelocal.it/20140606/venice-architecture-fest-tackles-painful-modernity Fri, 06 Jun 2014 10:00:00 +0200 venice-architecture-fest-tackles-painful-modernity Chinese artist shocks Venice with prison expo Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei tells the story of his 2011 incarceration with an installation of six large rusty metal boxes in the nave of a Venetian church at the Biennale art festival. https://www.thelocal.it/20130531/chinese-artist-shocks-venice-with-scenes-of-prison-life Fri, 31 May 2013 12:23:00 +0200 chinese-artist-shocks-venice-with-scenes-of-prison-life