As a major new exhibition of his work opens in Venice, the Belgian painter explains how painting can help us confront our own ignorance

London-based gallery will team up with interior designer Chahan to create "home of a 21st-century Grand Tourist" in the medieval Abbazia di San Gregorio

Artists on show will include John Akomfrah, El Anatsui and Lynette Yiadom-Boakye

Officials finally implement fee designed to control tourist numbers

Art, music and architecture flourished in the Republic for the last time

Procuratori say October flood waters caused the church to age “20 years in one day”

The two works at Palazzo Zaguri were found submerged in water on Monday night

High tide may have been prevented by barrier that is still under construction

One year after Karole Vail took over the Venice museum, major exhibitions and rehangs are in the works

Our pick from this week's auctions and exhibitions

The Venice Glass Week is a city-wide collaboration between museums, commercial galleries and artisans of Murano

The “avant-garde superstar” of the Renaissance is celebrated in his home city before works make rare trip to the US

These two books—very different in approach—analyse the process and works of the Italian Renaissance painter

As the Venice Architecture Biennale opens, the Venetian journalist Enrico Tantucci analyses culture in the city through the Biennale, historic buildings, the Accademia and the Arsenale

The upgrade to the Modernist building and its surrounding landscape has resulted in a new visitor route planned for the Giardini

Female artists are set to represent Austria, France, Ireland and the UK at the 58th edition of the exhibition

Works by Marcel Bascoulard and Urs Lüthi explore ideas around gender and identity

Noah Charney on works that we cannot see, but which remain as an influence to those who did see them

This is the view of a former Getty chief, who says the problems of the Serenissima are a paradigm for other historic cities

A string of exhibitions celebrating the 500th anniversary of the Venetian master’s birth will help to bring him back into favour

Salvatore Settis on the moral revival that could save Italy's sinking city, plus Tacita Dean on her three major London shows

New exhibition in Venice puts challenging work that risked offending “stuffy visitors” in context

Brooch and earrings removed during the day from a reinforced display case

The Italian government’s latest decision is in hock to the port’s own interests

Homo Faber's initiative, focussing on artisanal techniques, will take over the entire Fondazione Giorgio Cini next autumn 

Italian artist known for submerging a giant pair of hands in Venice’s Grand Canal plans to install the steel sculpture next year

Finished just in time for the Venice Biennale, this project has been 10 years in the making