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Venice Biennale postponed till 2021

By 2020-05-19T08:21:00

Droneport at Venice - the Norman Foster Foundation

Source: Nigel Young and The Norman Foster Foundation

Curator hopes second delay will give architects’ work ‘time and vigour it truly deserves’

The Venice Architecture Biennale, which was due to open this weekend, has been postponed till next year.

It is the second time the 17th international festival’s opening has been delayed. In March organisers pushed the date back from May 23 to the end of August because of travel restrictions caused by the coronavirus outbreak in Italy.

Now curator Hashim Sarkis has acknowledged that continuing uncertainties mean it remains impossible for the show, called How Will We Live Together?, to be staged this year.

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