Art, architecture and travel in Italy

The inaugural Venice Glass Week celebrates the beating heart of the city

By Ali Morris Last updated 26 October 22

Milan’s Triennale Design Museum spills the beans on the art of food (and food of art)

By JJ Martin Last updated 26 October 22

Under the Tuscan sun, Linder conjures an erotic Eden

The feminist artist brings a new edge to 1960s pin-ups by glamour photographer Harrison Marks for an exhibition at Monteverdi Gallery

By Jessica Klingelfuss Last updated 26 October 22

That seventies show: Francesco Vezzoli delves into the archives of Italian TV

By Charlotte Jansen Last updated 26 October 22

The Milan road show: auto brands drive into design territory at the 2014 Salone del Mobile

By Jonathan Bell Last updated 26 October 22

Monochrome makeover: Konstantin Grcic and ClassiCon celebrate 25 years together

By Sophie Lovell Last updated 26 October 22

Italian opulence: Poltrona Frau opens new UK flagship in the heart of Chelsea

By Sujata Burman Last updated 26 October 22

Eva Rothschild thinks big for the Irish Pavilion in Venice

By Harriet Lloyd-Smith Last updated 26 October 22

Katharina Grosse’s shimmering, iridescent installation envelops Espace Louis Vuitton in Venice

German artist Katharina Grosse’s theatrical new installation at Espace Louis Vuitton Venezia evokes a fluid, prismatic fabric that shrouds objects and prompts contemplation

By Charlotte Jansen Last updated 26 October 22

’Intro’: entering Fabio Novembre’s creative consciousness at La Triennale

By Sujata Burman Last updated 26 October 22

Hotel Tofana’s original 1933 building reimagined into a striking pile by Network of Architecture

By Daven Wu Last updated 25 October 22

Switzerland and Eduardo Souto de Moura win Golden Lions at Venice Architecture Biennale

By Bethan Ryder Last updated 25 October 22

Best of the rest: starchitects pull in the crowds at Venice Architecture Biennale

By David Paw Last updated 25 October 22

Venice to launch permanent Giudecca art district at Biennale

Touted as the city’s first permanent art quarter, the Giudecca Art District will encompass 11 galleries alongside national pavilions during the 58th Venice Biennale

By Jessica Klingelfuss Last updated 25 October 22

Food fest: five years of foodie Handmade projects show at Expogate

By Rosa Bertoli Last updated 25 October 22

A cubist white house takes a modern approach to local architecture in southern Italy

A relatively austere exterior plays with local vernacular and reveals a bright and open family retreat in Salento, Italy at La Torre Biance (The White Tower), a house courtesy of London-based DOS Architects' Lorenzo Grifantini

By Clare Dowdy Last updated 25 October 22

Weird & wonderful: the Dirty Art Department's experimental school

By Sujata Burman Last updated 25 October 22

Denton Corker Marshall reveal the new Australian Pavilion’s mysterious black box

By Ellie Stathaki Last updated 25 October 22

Di Gregorio Associati's cinematic pergola frames a rural Italian home

A concrete pergola becomes a frame for the landscape, and a sculptural transition between interior and exterior, at a house in the Emilian countryside

By Harriet Thorpe Last updated 25 October 22

In Florence, Davide Balliano strikes up a dialogue with sculptor Arturo Martini

The Brooklyn-based artist has created a site-specific intervention of monochromatic works inspired by a stone nude from the collection of Museo Novecento

By Osman Can Yerebakan Last updated 25 October 22

Meet the artists integrating themselves into their work at Pinault Collection

By TF Chan Last updated 25 October 22

Beach life: Vilebrequin teams up with coastal photographer Massimo Vitali for a lesson in artful bathing

By Misha Skelly Last updated 25 October 22

Craft masters convene at Salone del Mobile for the third edition of Doppia Firma

By Becky Sunshine Last updated 25 October 22

Curate award: a search for curatorial talent by QMA and Fondazione Prada

By Harriet Lloyd Smith Last updated 25 October 22