Breaking news: the start of the Venice Architecture Biennale has been pushed back from May to August due to disruption caused by the coronavirus in Italy.
Organisers of the architecture exhibition announced today it will run only from 29 August to 29 November.
Coronavirus has "jeopardised" the exhibition opening on its planned schedule, they said.
Originally the biannual event was meant to run from the 23 May to 29 November, but it has been curtailed to just three months instead of the usual seven.
"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."
Organisers said that a small delay, rather than this three month one, was not possible due to the "complexity of the organisational machine" and likely absence of some of the major exhibitors.
Outbreaks of a novel coronavirus, covid-19, have occurred around the world including a major cluster in northern Italy.
More to follow.
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