Of course there are exceptions, not least among the many collateral events such as Catalan sculptor Jaume Plensa's monumental fine - mesh head appearing in the dusk of San Giorgio Maggiore like a disembodied soul; and a fine show of Peter Doig's latest paintings,
full of jauntily piratical lions and strange new characters to add to his mythological
dramatis personae, at the Palazzetto Tito.