How the National Gallery changed my life
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Jeff Bezos’s Venetian wedding is a pageant of bad taste
As it should be.
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Just let Venice sink
The city is going to charge visitors an entrance fee, but it won’t save the place from itself.
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Summer of Light: a tale of art and betrayal in 1920s Venice
A new short story by the prize-winning novelist Jonathan Coe.
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Forget the pension plan: I’m blowing my savings on a trip to Venice
My two-month holiday is a chance for me to invest in my future, just not in the traditional sense.
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First Thoughts: Flooding in Venice, royal term limits and why professional sportsmen are like robots
Consider what the floods in Venice tell us about modern politicians’ capacity to think long term and humanity’s prospects of…
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In a Venice Biennale full of moving stories, the British appear to have nothing to say
With her monstrous phallus and pendulous balls, Britain’s Sarah Lucas has sunk to the occasion.
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Jan Morris: One last time to Venice
Over an eventful life, Jan Morris has been an officer, journalist, husband, celebrated writer, and a wife. Her new book…
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