This month Venice has recorded its third-worst flood since 1900, endangering the city’s artwork and buildings. The city wants to work on building new barriers to keep the water out but environmentalists oppose the idea. – The Art Newspaper
- WHY NO BARRIERS? There is a fear that by closing them for 100-300 hours a year—and there are some 8,600 hours in a year—it would affect the exchange of water between the sea and the lagoon, and that the lagoon would become polluted. As the Special Law for Venice says that the lagoon is inseparable from the historic city, it is not possible to act on one part rather than the whole. – The Art Newspaper