leAD  Since 2008, more and more huge advertisements have appeared in Venice, on palaces up and down the Grand Canal and on the façades of St Mark’s Square, the Biblioteca Marciana, and the Doge’s Palace. Now they are also lit up at night to give the advertisers a bigger bang for their bucks. The price, however, is not high; it costs about €40,000 a month for three years to cover part of Doge’s Palace overlooking the lagoon and connecting with the Bridge of Sighs—less than two pages of advertising in a daily paper. And even with this money coming in, the restoration is still €600,000 short of the €2.8m needed to finish the job. READ MORE
articles Studios and exhibition spaces are part of the so-called “Ground Zero mosque” Two works coming to auction with Bonhams appear similar to those pictured in Polaroids found in the convicted dealer’s Geneva store The Moderna Museet’s new director, Daniel Birnbaum, on tearing down the walls between art, literature and philosophy Rem Koolhaas plans to turn a 16th-century Venetian building into a shopping centre cum cultural space Restorers may have discovered a way to save the volcanic stone Moai on Easter Island from damaging lichens New England Chippendale furniture, early weathervanes and primitive portraits struggle to sell All articles 
video  Victoria Miro artist Maria Nepomuceno attracted attention at Art Statements in Basel this year with her hand made, woven-beaded scultpure Hammock Net. Combining organic shapes with vivid colour Nepomuceno toys with space and structure, form and concept. Interview by Jean Wainwright.
40,000 Bees at Design Miami  Julien Lombrail of The Carpenters Workshop stunned the crowd which gathered in Design Miami in Basel yesterday when he released 40,000 bees into a box to 'clean' a perspex Christ-like figure. Lombrail continues to boldly blur the lines between design and art with this and other pieces currently on show at the fair .
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exhibitions  A large-scale work by 2006 MacArthur Fellow Shahzia Sikander is emerging from the storeroom to help challenge the idea that traditional Indian painting are always miniatures. New and old monumental pieces, the latter created for devotional rituals and group activities such as storytelling, will join Sikander’s The Illustrated Page Series #1, 2005-06, will cover an entire wall of the gallery when installed.
all exhibitions jobs A grant of up to £80,000, over two years, is available to a UK institution to enable an experienced conservator (employed by that institution) to pursue a research project. During their sabbatical their post will be covered by an externally recruited junior conservator. all jobs
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London, 14th October – a seminar examining the ways in which employees may be liable in both criminal and civil law when transactions go wrong. Institute of Art and Law with the generous support of Reynolds Porter Chamberlain. | 
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