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Beyond the Biennale: Venice’s ‘secret’ Sant’Elena island

While most of La Serenissima will be heaving with visitors during the art fair, which starts this week, this tiny island at the city’s eastern tip is a world apart

The Guardian - UK

Art lovers to get sneak preview of island ‘rebirth’ at Venice Biennale

After falling into disuse six decades ago, San Giacomo in Paludo will host a performance artist’s show this week

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Artist Sonia Boyce: ‘Paintings are not born on walls’

The first black female artist to represent Britain at the Venice Biennale reflects on a career challenging the racial and sexual bias behind what art hangs in galleries – and around in our memories

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Venice, in small bites

The upcoming Venice Biennale is the best time to explore the local eateries’ pandemic return to old-style foods such as polpetti and castraure

The Hindu

The power of Auerbach, the perils of Venice and seaside pleasures from Martin Parr – the week in art

Head to Petworth for Frank Auerbach, Greenwich for Canaletto and Bournemouth for the beach – all in your weekly dispatch

The Guardian - UK

‘Our traditions have been criminalised’ – the Arctic artists bringing protest to the Venice Biennale

They’re threatened by loggers, miners, global heating and culling laws – but the Sámi are fighting back with art. Our writer meets them in the frozen tundra as they prepare for the art world’s biggest global gathering

The Guardian - UK

Chicago fishing, Midwest Fishing Report: Heidecke/smelt/inland trout openers, coho, browns, steelhead

Openers lead this sprawling raw-file Midwest Fishing Report with smelt netting in Chicago and Heidecke Lake opening on Friday, then inland trout opening on Saturday.

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Canaletto’s Venice Revisited review – pre-tourist masterpieces resist the climate crisis narrative

Linking Canaletto’s paintings of a fading Venice to current climate concerns seems a bit pointless – these stately home treasures already depicted decay

The Guardian - UK

Four-star hotel arms guests with water guns to protect them from seagull attacks

A hotel in Venice, Italy, is so sick of the seagulls stealing people's lunch and carrying out random attacks that they have handed guests water pistols - and they say the strategy is already working

Daily Mirror

Venice hotel guests issued with water pistols to shoot gulls

Hoteliers find a solution to marauding birds that have become an increasing problem for guests dining al fresco

The Guardian - UK

Venice tourists given water pistols to fend off aggressive seagulls

‘A gull flew off with an entire steak,’ says hotel manager

The Independent UK

Italy slowly easing long-lasting Covid rules ahead of Spring influx of UK visitors

Long-awaited relaxation of travel rules has brought Italy back on the radar and there are a wide range of experiences of offer

Wales Online

How you can get bargain flights to Barcelona, Venice, Madrid and more for as little as £26

May is the best month to bag a deal on flights, according to this travel expert

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Ukrainian artists embraced as Russia sees cultural blacklist

The Venice Biennale art exhibition says it is working to make sure the artist representing Ukraine can come to Italy and show his work

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Pavlo Makov, Ukraine’s Venice Biennale artist, on why he’s standing firm in Kharkiv

This is not a war between Ukrainians and Russians, he says, but between opposing mentalities - and Ukraine has been expecting it

Daily Mirror

Alan Carr says Melanie Sykes' Venice fling saw women flock to city to find love

Comic Alan Carr said his friend Melanie Sykes is responsible for giving a boost to the tourism industry in Venice after undertaking a romantic getaway to the Italian city of Venice and prompting women to flock to the city looking for love

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‘Bleak, marginal and unpopular’: Australia unveils divisive exhibition for Venice Biennale

Marco Fusinato describes his experimental noise project as ‘discordant intensities’, with his curator hoping that people who hate it will ‘hate it right away’

Evening Standard

How to spend a winter weekend in Venice

Kate Lough explores Venice’s quieter districts during a sunny weekend in February

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Couple traumatised after being chased and beaten in horrific homophobic attack

Sunday Russell, 29, from Glasgow, and partner Martina Bressamutti, 28, have been left traumatised and suffering with "daily" panic attacks after being subjected to a vicious homophobic attack in Venice, Italy

Daily Record

Scots couple chased and beaten in a horrific homophobic attack in Italy

Sunday Russell, 29, has been left with a 'severe' fracture after the unprovoked assault in Venice, Italy.

The Guardian - UK

‘A testament to his joyous personality’: the stars of Roger Michell’s final film, The Duke, pay tribute

As the director’s last feature – a true-life crime caper – finally opens, Helen Mirren, Jim Broadbent, Anna Maxwell Martin and more remember the quiet genius of British cinema

Evening Standard

Venice Carnival brings hope of a return to normality after Covid

Two years after the pandemic shut down celebrations, tourists and locals returned to the streets this weekend

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As tourists begin thinking about an overseas holiday, some destinations are wary about having too many back

As international borders reopen and people begin making holiday plans, some popular destinations are putting in measures to keep tourist numbers down, or at least make sure they stay on their best behaviour.

Reuters

Venice's 'Carnival of hope' kicks off as COVID worries ease

Thousands of people revelled in the start of the annual Carnival celebrations in Venice on Saturday, marking a slow return to normality after the COVID-19 pandemic hit the two previous editions.

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Marco Polo had previously unknown daughter before marriage, will suggests

Research by Venice student uncovers evidence explorer may have been father of woman called Agnese

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