From the best pizza in town to a picturesque island

From cocoa-covered creations, to spaceships and rotting fruit, here is our selection of top shows from the first preview day

Venice can still be saved from the rising water level: here’s how

Day trippers will need to pay €5 to enter on select days in a pilot scheme which starts during the Biennale

The dealer will show 12 works by the German-British painter spanning 50 years of his career

Exhibition 'celebrates the iconography and symbolism of breasts', with works by Cindy Sherman, Robert Mapplethorpe, Marcel Duchamp and Laure Prouvost

Local heritage group decries the "biennialisation of the city" after gallery paid a fee to stage the Manolo Valdés installation

Museo Correr will be filled with works embroidered by the Italian maverick

The holy installation at Château La Coste comprises a huge bronze hand pointing to the heavens

An interview with the chief executive officer of the Palazzo Grassi—Punta della Dogana in Venice

Co-curated by the Los Angeles museum's director, Michael Govan, the exhibition is designed by Tadao Ando

Latest measures are attempt to stem mass tourism and conserve the historic city

Economist and tourism expert Jan van der Borg says the new daily charge will not solve the crisis of the overrun city, and outlines what should be done instead

The itinerant lives of the Brazilian and Turkish artists chime with the theme of his central exhibition next year

But some critics are arguing that Migrant Child, which has been slowly deteriorating since it first appeared in 2019, should be left alone

The committee voted to protect ancient sites in China, Iran, the West Bank and along the historic Silk Road, but Venice was not included

Italy’s politicians attack the cultural body as “arrogant”, “politicised” and lacking in common sense

Residents, students and visitors in Airbnb properties will be exempt from the scheme, which will be implemented next spring

By 2100 the water-level will ring rise one metre, and yet it aims to block UNESCO in-danger listing

The organisation has repeatedly bowed to pressure from the Italian government not to do so

At a conference organised by the new Venice Sustainability Foundation in June, major public figures agreed for the first time that sea-level rise is the main problem facing the city now

The focus of the show will be foreign artists—including refugees, émigrés and members of a diaspora

An archive has opened on the Island of San Giorgio in Venice for Murano glass designs

Gallerie dell’Accademia show will explore how Italy shaped the late artist’s vision

The 2023 event focuses on marginalised voices for the first time, with more than half of participants from Africa or the African diaspora

The gargantuan piece, which looks up to the Thames cable car, is part of Hirst’s Treasures from the Wreck of the Unbelievable series

Audemars Piguet Contemporary and TBA21-Academy co-commission features fantastical objects that will be paraded through the city streets

The latest news of the key players taking part in the 60th International Art Exhibition

The painter’s masterpieces show that his influences stretched beyond Venice and at times touch on the miraculous.

From a fifth-century influx of refugees to the arrival of “grazing dinosaur” cruise ships