Breaking news: the start of the Venice Architecture Biennale has been delayed from May to August due to disruption caused by the coronavirus outbreak in Italy.
Organisers of the world's most prestigious architecture biennale announced today that the event will begin on 29 August and run until 29 November. The preview, or vernissage, is scheduled for 27 and 28 August.
The decision to delay the opening by three months was made due to the impact of measures being taken by governments to restrict the spread of the virus.
"The new dates of the architecture biennale have been established as a consequence of the recent precautionary measures on the subject of mobility taken by the governments of a growing number of countries in the world," La Biennale di Venezia said on its website. "[This] will have a chain effect on the movement of people and works in the coming weeks."
Biennale will only last three months
The biannual event was scheduled to run from 23 May to 29 November. It has now been shortened to just three months instead of the usual six.
Biennale officials said that a shorter delay was not possible due to the "complexity of the organisational machine" and the likely absence of some of the major exhibitors. Curator Hashim Sarkis had also expressed concern about being able to complete the exhibition in time.

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