{"id":1930819,"date":"2026-05-11T10:00:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T07:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1930819"},"modified":"2026-05-11T10:00:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T07:00:13","slug":"venice-biennale-strike-makes-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1930819","title":{"rendered":"Venice Biennale Strike Makes History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[analyse_image type=&#8221;featured&#8221; src=&#8221;&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p><main class=\"gh-main\"><\/p>\n<article class=\"gh-article post tag-daily-newsletter tag-newsletter no-image\">\n<header class=\"gh-article-header gh-canvas\">\n<p>                Daily Newsletter<\/p>\n<h1 class=\"gh-article-title is-title\">Venice Biennale Strike Makes History<\/h1>\n<p class=\"gh-article-excerpt is-body\">Plus, the LA Art Book Fair, and a seagull becomes a Biennale star.<\/p>\n<div class=\"gh-article-meta\">\n<div class=\"gh-article-author-image instapaper_ignore\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"author-profile-image\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/51\/f8\/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a\/content\/images\/size\/w160\/2025\/11\/hyperallergic-favicon-d-blank-r-g-s-500.png\" alt=\"Hyperallergic\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"gh-article-meta-wrapper\">\n<h4 class=\"gh-article-author-name\">Hyperallergic<\/h4>\n<div class=\"gh-article-meta-content\"><time class=\"gh-article-meta-date\" datetime=\"2026-05-11\">May 11, 2026<\/time><span class=\"gh-article-meta-length\"><span class=\"bull\">\u2014<\/span> 4 min read<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<section class=\"gh-content gh-canvas is-body\">\n<p>Visitors at the Venice Biennale preview encountered a historic sight on Friday: Palestinian flags draped over artworks and more than two dozen shuttered national pavilions. As part of a 24-hour strike organized by the Art Not Genocide Alliance and local activist groups, thousands marched down one of Venice\u2019s main streets as Italian police beat back protesters. Editor-in-Chief Hakim Bishara reports from the thick of the action at the first cultural strike in the Biennale\u2019s 131-year history.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Another sight to behold in Venice last week: A nesting seagull planted herself near the shuttered Polish pavilion with the \u201caura of an accidental artwork,\u201d reports Avedis Hadjian. Also today, Matt Stromberg gets messy with zines, vintage photos, and lavish monographs at the LA Art Book Fair, and Dan Schindel takes us inside the life of the \u201cmaintenance-artist\u201d Mierle Laderman Ukeles in a review of her new documentary.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u2014<em>Lisa Yin Zhang, associate editor<\/em><\/p>\n<hr>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-image-card kg-card-hascaption\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/51\/f8\/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a\/content\/images\/2026\/05\/IMG_0043-3-1.png\" class=\"kg-image\" alt loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"><figcaption><span>People march in Venice during a historic Biennale strike for Palestine and workers\u2019 rights on May 8. (photo Hrag Vartanian\/<\/span><i><em class=\"italic\">Hyperallergic<\/em><\/i><span>) <\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3 id=\"historic-strike-disrupts-biennale-as-thousands-march-in-venice\">Historic Strike Disrupts Biennale as Thousands March in Venice<\/h3>\n<p>Dozens of national pavilions were partially or fully shut down in a strike for Palestine and for workers\u2019 rights. | Hakim Bishara<\/p>\n<hr>\n<div class=\"kg-card kg-cta-card kg-cta-bg-white kg-cta-immersive  kg-cta-has-img  \" data-layout=\"immersive\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-sponsor-label-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-sponsor-label\"><span>SPONSORED<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"kg-cta-content\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-image-container\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/51\/f8\/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a\/content\/images\/2026\/05\/Hyperallergicnewbooksannouncementheader-1--1.jpg\" alt=\"CTA Image\" data-image-dimensions=\"2000x1125\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"kg-cta-content-inner\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-text\">\n<p><b><strong>Early 2026 Art Books From Yale University Press<\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span>Biographies of Anni Albers and Dorothea Tanning, The Met\u2019s blockbuster \u201cRaphael,\u201d Edward Steichen and his flowers, and more books for art lovers. Shop the annual sale this May.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>                            Learn more<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<hr>\n<h2 id=\"feature\">Feature<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-image-card kg-card-hascaption\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/51\/f8\/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a\/content\/images\/2026\/05\/mothersday.jpg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"><figcaption><span>Left: Maddy Inez as a child with her mother, sculptor Alison Saar, and grandmother, artist Betye Saar. (photo courtesy the artist); right: \u201cBlood Bloom\u201d (2026) (photo Paul Salveson, courtesy Megan Mulrooney)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3 id=\"15-artists-share-the-best-advice-they-got-from-their-mother\">15 Artists Share the Best Advice They Got From Their Mother<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cShe taught me how to play, how to laugh until my face burns, and how to dance in the kitchen to \u2018Believe\u2019 by Cher.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"nesting-seagull-becomes-unexpected-star-of-venice-biennale\">Nesting Seagull Becomes Unexpected Star of Venice Biennale<\/h3>\n<p>Organizers believe this is the first known instance of the bird nesting in such a prominent area of the exhibition grounds. | Avedis Hadjian<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"getting-messy-in-the-archive-at-la%E2%80%99s-art-book-fair\">Getting Messy in the Archive at LA\u2019s Art Book Fair<\/h3>\n<p>This year\u2019s edition of the annual Printed Matter show unearths and remixes historical media, collapsing time and giving the past new relevance. | Matt Stromberg<\/p>\n<hr>\n<h2 id=\"from-our-critics\">From Our Critics<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-image-card kg-card-hascaption\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/51\/f8\/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a\/content\/images\/2026\/05\/frank_008-1-1.jpg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"><figcaption><span>Mary Frank, \u201cProne Woman Plaque\u201d (c. 1980) (photo John Goodrich, courtesy Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3 id=\"mary-frank-creates-her-own-pantheon\">Mary Frank Creates Her Own Pantheon<\/h3>\n<p>Across sculptures and works on paper, her subjects are self-sustaining survivors who have not lost their capacity for tenderness. | John Yau<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"the-making-of-a-maintenance-artist\">The Making of a Maintenance Artist<\/h3>\n<p>A new documentary traces Mierle Laderman Ukeles\u2019s decades-long practice of spotlighting marginal, unpaid, and feminine labor. | Dan Schindel<\/p>\n<hr>\n<h2 id=\"community\">Community<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-image-card kg-card-hascaption\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/51\/f8\/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a\/content\/images\/2026\/05\/IMG_8702---Brenda-Zlamany-1-2-1.jpg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"><figcaption><span>Photo of a painting location for Brenda Zlamany in her ancestral village<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3 id=\"a-view-from-the-easel-brenda-zlamany\">A View From the Easel: Brenda Zlamany<\/h3>\n<p>This week, Brenda Zlamany returns to her ancestral village near the Pollino National Park in Italy, where she paints in an old sausage factory and grows her own olives. \u201cRome has Michelangelo. We have the mountain.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr>\n<h2 id=\"member-comment\">Member Comment<\/h2>\n<p>William Conger on Hakim Bishara\u2019s \u201cA Whole Lot of Nothing at the US Pavilion\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"kg-card kg-callout-card kg-callout-card-yellow\">\n<div class=\"kg-callout-text\">Alma\u2019s art may be bad art but that can\u2019t be determined by a critique that wishes it to be a deliberate political statement against the current awful regime. The subjective intent of Alma\u2019s art is being ignored. He expects the viewers to mingle their subjective associations or meanings prompted by his art with the larger, objective, meanings reflecting public cultural values. <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<hr>\n<h2 id=\"from-the-archive-%E2%80%94-happy-late-mothers-day\">From the Archive \u2014 Happy Late Mother&#8217;s Day!<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-image-card kg-card-hascaption\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/51\/f8\/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a\/content\/images\/2026\/05\/photo-2022-06-21-05-44-35-1.jpg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"><figcaption><span>Cecilia Vicu\u00f1a and her mother Norma Ram\u00edrez at the Venice Biennale in 2022 (photo courtesy the artist)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3 id=\"a-tribute-to-art-and-motherhood\">A Tribute to Art and Motherhood<\/h3>\n<p>Artists and art workers reflect on the maternal figures in their lives, on being mothers, and on the many layers of a universally beloved and misunderstood figure.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<div class=\"kg-card kg-cta-card kg-cta-bg-grey kg-cta-minimal    \" data-layout=\"minimal\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-sponsor-label-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-sponsor-label\"><span>Featured Opportunity<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"kg-cta-content\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-content-inner\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-text\">\n<p><b><strong>Oak Spring Garden Foundation &#8211; Fellowship for Distinction in Fine Crafts and Design<\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span>The fellowship will be awarded to an early-career craftsperson or designer whose work meaningfully engages with the natural world. It includes a $10,000 grant and a two- to five-week stay at OSGF in Northern Virginia.Deadline: May 31, 2026 |\u00a0<\/span><span>osgf.org<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>See more in\u00a0this month\u2019s list of opportunities\u00a0for artists, writers, and art workers!\u00a0<\/p>\n<hr>\n<ul class=\"post-tags\">\n<li>\n                        Daily Newsletter\n                      <\/li>\n<li>\n                        Newsletter\n                      <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/section>\n<\/article>\n<p><\/main><\/p>\n<article class=\"gh-article post tag-daily-newsletter tag-newsletter no-image\">\n<header class=\"gh-article-header gh-canvas\">\n<p>                Daily Newsletter<\/p>\n<h1 class=\"gh-article-title is-title\">Venice Biennale Strike Makes History<\/h1>\n<p class=\"gh-article-excerpt is-body\">Plus, the LA Art Book Fair, and a seagull becomes a Biennale star.<\/p>\n<div class=\"gh-article-meta\">\n<div class=\"gh-article-author-image instapaper_ignore\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"author-profile-image\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/51\/f8\/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a\/content\/images\/size\/w160\/2025\/11\/hyperallergic-favicon-d-blank-r-g-s-500.png\" alt=\"Hyperallergic\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"gh-article-meta-wrapper\">\n<h4 class=\"gh-article-author-name\">Hyperallergic<\/h4>\n<div class=\"gh-article-meta-content\"><time class=\"gh-article-meta-date\" datetime=\"2026-05-11\">May 11, 2026<\/time><span class=\"gh-article-meta-length\"><span class=\"bull\">\u2014<\/span> 4 min read<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<section class=\"gh-content gh-canvas is-body\">\n<p>Visitors at the Venice Biennale preview encountered a historic sight on Friday: Palestinian flags draped over artworks and more than two dozen shuttered national pavilions. As part of a 24-hour strike organized by the Art Not Genocide Alliance and local activist groups, thousands marched down one of Venice\u2019s main streets as Italian police beat back protesters. Editor-in-Chief Hakim Bishara reports from the thick of the action at the first cultural strike in the Biennale\u2019s 131-year history.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Another sight to behold in Venice last week: A nesting seagull planted herself near the shuttered Polish pavilion with the \u201caura of an accidental artwork,\u201d reports Avedis Hadjian. Also today, Matt Stromberg gets messy with zines, vintage photos, and lavish monographs at the LA Art Book Fair, and Dan Schindel takes us inside the life of the \u201cmaintenance-artist\u201d Mierle Laderman Ukeles in a review of her new documentary.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u2014<em>Lisa Yin Zhang, associate editor<\/em><\/p>\n<hr>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-image-card kg-card-hascaption\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/51\/f8\/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a\/content\/images\/2026\/05\/IMG_0043-3-1.png\" class=\"kg-image\" alt loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"><figcaption><span>People march in Venice during a historic Biennale strike for Palestine and workers\u2019 rights on May 8. (photo Hrag Vartanian\/<\/span><i><em class=\"italic\">Hyperallergic<\/em><\/i><span>) <\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3 id=\"historic-strike-disrupts-biennale-as-thousands-march-in-venice\">Historic Strike Disrupts Biennale as Thousands March in Venice<\/h3>\n<p>Dozens of national pavilions were partially or fully shut down in a strike for Palestine and for workers\u2019 rights. | Hakim Bishara<\/p>\n<hr>\n<div class=\"kg-card kg-cta-card kg-cta-bg-white kg-cta-immersive  kg-cta-has-img  \" data-layout=\"immersive\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-sponsor-label-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-sponsor-label\"><span>SPONSORED<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"kg-cta-content\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-image-container\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/51\/f8\/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a\/content\/images\/2026\/05\/Hyperallergicnewbooksannouncementheader-1--1.jpg\" alt=\"CTA Image\" data-image-dimensions=\"2000x1125\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"kg-cta-content-inner\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-text\">\n<p><b><strong>Early 2026 Art Books From Yale University Press<\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span>Biographies of Anni Albers and Dorothea Tanning, The Met\u2019s blockbuster \u201cRaphael,\u201d Edward Steichen and his flowers, and more books for art lovers. Shop the annual sale this May.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>                            Learn more<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<hr>\n<h2 id=\"feature\">Feature<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-image-card kg-card-hascaption\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/51\/f8\/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a\/content\/images\/2026\/05\/mothersday.jpg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"><figcaption><span>Left: Maddy Inez as a child with her mother, sculptor Alison Saar, and grandmother, artist Betye Saar. (photo courtesy the artist); right: \u201cBlood Bloom\u201d (2026) (photo Paul Salveson, courtesy Megan Mulrooney)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3 id=\"15-artists-share-the-best-advice-they-got-from-their-mother\">15 Artists Share the Best Advice They Got From Their Mother<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cShe taught me how to play, how to laugh until my face burns, and how to dance in the kitchen to \u2018Believe\u2019 by Cher.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"nesting-seagull-becomes-unexpected-star-of-venice-biennale\">Nesting Seagull Becomes Unexpected Star of Venice Biennale<\/h3>\n<p>Organizers believe this is the first known instance of the bird nesting in such a prominent area of the exhibition grounds. | Avedis Hadjian<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"getting-messy-in-the-archive-at-la%E2%80%99s-art-book-fair\">Getting Messy in the Archive at LA\u2019s Art Book Fair<\/h3>\n<p>This year\u2019s edition of the annual Printed Matter show unearths and remixes historical media, collapsing time and giving the past new relevance. | Matt Stromberg<\/p>\n<hr>\n<h2 id=\"from-our-critics\">From Our Critics<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-image-card kg-card-hascaption\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/51\/f8\/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a\/content\/images\/2026\/05\/frank_008-1-1.jpg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"><figcaption><span>Mary Frank, \u201cProne Woman Plaque\u201d (c. 1980) (photo John Goodrich, courtesy Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3 id=\"mary-frank-creates-her-own-pantheon\">Mary Frank Creates Her Own Pantheon<\/h3>\n<p>Across sculptures and works on paper, her subjects are self-sustaining survivors who have not lost their capacity for tenderness. | John Yau<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"the-making-of-a-maintenance-artist\">The Making of a Maintenance Artist<\/h3>\n<p>A new documentary traces Mierle Laderman Ukeles\u2019s decades-long practice of spotlighting marginal, unpaid, and feminine labor. | Dan Schindel<\/p>\n<hr>\n<h2 id=\"community\">Community<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-image-card kg-card-hascaption\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/51\/f8\/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a\/content\/images\/2026\/05\/IMG_8702---Brenda-Zlamany-1-2-1.jpg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"><figcaption><span>Photo of a painting location for Brenda Zlamany in her ancestral village<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3 id=\"a-view-from-the-easel-brenda-zlamany\">A View From the Easel: Brenda Zlamany<\/h3>\n<p>This week, Brenda Zlamany returns to her ancestral village near the Pollino National Park in Italy, where she paints in an old sausage factory and grows her own olives. \u201cRome has Michelangelo. We have the mountain.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr>\n<h2 id=\"member-comment\">Member Comment<\/h2>\n<p>William Conger on Hakim Bishara\u2019s \u201cA Whole Lot of Nothing at the US Pavilion\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"kg-card kg-callout-card kg-callout-card-yellow\">\n<div class=\"kg-callout-text\">Alma\u2019s art may be bad art but that can\u2019t be determined by a critique that wishes it to be a deliberate political statement against the current awful regime. The subjective intent of Alma\u2019s art is being ignored. He expects the viewers to mingle their subjective associations or meanings prompted by his art with the larger, objective, meanings reflecting public cultural values. <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<hr>\n<h2 id=\"from-the-archive-%E2%80%94-happy-late-mothers-day\">From the Archive \u2014 Happy Late Mother&#8217;s Day!<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-image-card kg-card-hascaption\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/51\/f8\/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a\/content\/images\/2026\/05\/photo-2022-06-21-05-44-35-1.jpg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"><figcaption><span>Cecilia Vicu\u00f1a and her mother Norma Ram\u00edrez at the Venice Biennale in 2022 (photo courtesy the artist)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3 id=\"a-tribute-to-art-and-motherhood\">A Tribute to Art and Motherhood<\/h3>\n<p>Artists and art workers reflect on the maternal figures in their lives, on being mothers, and on the many layers of a universally beloved and misunderstood figure.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<div class=\"kg-card kg-cta-card kg-cta-bg-grey kg-cta-minimal    \" data-layout=\"minimal\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-sponsor-label-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-sponsor-label\"><span>Featured Opportunity<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"kg-cta-content\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-content-inner\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-text\">\n<p><b><strong>Oak Spring Garden Foundation &#8211; Fellowship for Distinction in Fine Crafts and Design<\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span>The fellowship will be awarded to an early-career craftsperson or designer whose work meaningfully engages with the natural world. It includes a $10,000 grant and a two- to five-week stay at OSGF in Northern Virginia.Deadline: May 31, 2026 |\u00a0<\/span><span>osgf.org<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>See more in\u00a0this month\u2019s list of opportunities\u00a0for artists, writers, and art workers!\u00a0<\/p>\n<hr>\n<ul class=\"post-tags\">\n<li>\n                        Daily Newsletter\n                      <\/li>\n<li>\n                        Newsletter\n                      <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/section>\n<\/article>\n<section class=\"gh-content gh-canvas is-body\">\n<p>Visitors at the Venice Biennale preview encountered a historic sight on Friday: Palestinian flags draped over artworks and more than two dozen shuttered national pavilions. As part of a 24-hour strike organized by the Art Not Genocide Alliance and local activist groups, thousands marched down one of Venice\u2019s main streets as Italian police beat back protesters. Editor-in-Chief Hakim Bishara reports from the thick of the action at the first cultural strike in the Biennale\u2019s 131-year history.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Another sight to behold in Venice last week: A nesting seagull planted herself near the shuttered Polish pavilion with the \u201caura of an accidental artwork,\u201d reports Avedis Hadjian. Also today, Matt Stromberg gets messy with zines, vintage photos, and lavish monographs at the LA Art Book Fair, and Dan Schindel takes us inside the life of the \u201cmaintenance-artist\u201d Mierle Laderman Ukeles in a review of her new documentary.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u2014<em>Lisa Yin Zhang, associate editor<\/em><\/p>\n<hr>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-image-card kg-card-hascaption\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/51\/f8\/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a\/content\/images\/2026\/05\/IMG_0043-3-1.png\" class=\"kg-image\" alt loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"><figcaption><span>People march in Venice during a historic Biennale strike for Palestine and workers\u2019 rights on May 8. (photo Hrag Vartanian\/<\/span><i><em class=\"italic\">Hyperallergic<\/em><\/i><span>) <\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3 id=\"historic-strike-disrupts-biennale-as-thousands-march-in-venice\">Historic Strike Disrupts Biennale as Thousands March in Venice<\/h3>\n<p>Dozens of national pavilions were partially or fully shut down in a strike for Palestine and for workers\u2019 rights. | Hakim Bishara<\/p>\n<hr>\n<div class=\"kg-card kg-cta-card kg-cta-bg-white kg-cta-immersive  kg-cta-has-img  \" data-layout=\"immersive\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-sponsor-label-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-sponsor-label\"><span>SPONSORED<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"kg-cta-content\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-image-container\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/51\/f8\/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a\/content\/images\/2026\/05\/Hyperallergicnewbooksannouncementheader-1--1.jpg\" alt=\"CTA Image\" data-image-dimensions=\"2000x1125\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"kg-cta-content-inner\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-text\">\n<p><b><strong>Early 2026 Art Books From Yale University Press<\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span>Biographies of Anni Albers and Dorothea Tanning, The Met\u2019s blockbuster \u201cRaphael,\u201d Edward Steichen and his flowers, and more books for art lovers. Shop the annual sale this May.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>                            Learn more<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<hr>\n<h2 id=\"feature\">Feature<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-image-card kg-card-hascaption\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/51\/f8\/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a\/content\/images\/2026\/05\/mothersday.jpg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"><figcaption><span>Left: Maddy Inez as a child with her mother, sculptor Alison Saar, and grandmother, artist Betye Saar. (photo courtesy the artist); right: \u201cBlood Bloom\u201d (2026) (photo Paul Salveson, courtesy Megan Mulrooney)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3 id=\"15-artists-share-the-best-advice-they-got-from-their-mother\">15 Artists Share the Best Advice They Got From Their Mother<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cShe taught me how to play, how to laugh until my face burns, and how to dance in the kitchen to \u2018Believe\u2019 by Cher.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"nesting-seagull-becomes-unexpected-star-of-venice-biennale\">Nesting Seagull Becomes Unexpected Star of Venice Biennale<\/h3>\n<p>Organizers believe this is the first known instance of the bird nesting in such a prominent area of the exhibition grounds. | Avedis Hadjian<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"getting-messy-in-the-archive-at-la%E2%80%99s-art-book-fair\">Getting Messy in the Archive at LA\u2019s Art Book Fair<\/h3>\n<p>This year\u2019s edition of the annual Printed Matter show unearths and remixes historical media, collapsing time and giving the past new relevance. | Matt Stromberg<\/p>\n<hr>\n<h2 id=\"from-our-critics\">From Our Critics<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-image-card kg-card-hascaption\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/51\/f8\/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a\/content\/images\/2026\/05\/frank_008-1-1.jpg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"><figcaption><span>Mary Frank, \u201cProne Woman Plaque\u201d (c. 1980) (photo John Goodrich, courtesy Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3 id=\"mary-frank-creates-her-own-pantheon\">Mary Frank Creates Her Own Pantheon<\/h3>\n<p>Across sculptures and works on paper, her subjects are self-sustaining survivors who have not lost their capacity for tenderness. | John Yau<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"the-making-of-a-maintenance-artist\">The Making of a Maintenance Artist<\/h3>\n<p>A new documentary traces Mierle Laderman Ukeles\u2019s decades-long practice of spotlighting marginal, unpaid, and feminine labor. | Dan Schindel<\/p>\n<hr>\n<h2 id=\"community\">Community<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-image-card kg-card-hascaption\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/51\/f8\/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a\/content\/images\/2026\/05\/IMG_8702---Brenda-Zlamany-1-2-1.jpg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"><figcaption><span>Photo of a painting location for Brenda Zlamany in her ancestral village<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3 id=\"a-view-from-the-easel-brenda-zlamany\">A View From the Easel: Brenda Zlamany<\/h3>\n<p>This week, Brenda Zlamany returns to her ancestral village near the Pollino National Park in Italy, where she paints in an old sausage factory and grows her own olives. \u201cRome has Michelangelo. We have the mountain.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr>\n<h2 id=\"member-comment\">Member Comment<\/h2>\n<p>William Conger on Hakim Bishara\u2019s \u201cA Whole Lot of Nothing at the US Pavilion\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"kg-card kg-callout-card kg-callout-card-yellow\">\n<div class=\"kg-callout-text\">Alma\u2019s art may be bad art but that can\u2019t be determined by a critique that wishes it to be a deliberate political statement against the current awful regime. The subjective intent of Alma\u2019s art is being ignored. He expects the viewers to mingle their subjective associations or meanings prompted by his art with the larger, objective, meanings reflecting public cultural values. <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<hr>\n<h2 id=\"from-the-archive-%E2%80%94-happy-late-mothers-day\">From the Archive \u2014 Happy Late Mother&#8217;s Day!<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-image-card kg-card-hascaption\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/51\/f8\/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a\/content\/images\/2026\/05\/photo-2022-06-21-05-44-35-1.jpg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"><figcaption><span>Cecilia Vicu\u00f1a and her mother Norma Ram\u00edrez at the Venice Biennale in 2022 (photo courtesy the artist)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3 id=\"a-tribute-to-art-and-motherhood\">A Tribute to Art and Motherhood<\/h3>\n<p>Artists and art workers reflect on the maternal figures in their lives, on being mothers, and on the many layers of a universally beloved and misunderstood figure.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<div class=\"kg-card kg-cta-card kg-cta-bg-grey kg-cta-minimal    \" data-layout=\"minimal\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-sponsor-label-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-sponsor-label\"><span>Featured Opportunity<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"kg-cta-content\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-content-inner\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-text\">\n<p><b><strong>Oak Spring Garden Foundation &#8211; Fellowship for Distinction in Fine Crafts and Design<\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span>The fellowship will be awarded to an early-career craftsperson or designer whose work meaningfully engages with the natural world. It includes a $10,000 grant and a two- to five-week stay at OSGF in Northern Virginia.Deadline: May 31, 2026 |\u00a0<\/span><span>osgf.org<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>See more in\u00a0this month\u2019s list of opportunities\u00a0for artists, writers, and art workers!\u00a0<\/p>\n<hr>\n<ul class=\"post-tags\">\n<li>\n                        Daily Newsletter\n                      <\/li>\n<li>\n                        Newsletter\n                      <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/section>\n<article class=\"gh-card post\">\n<figure class=\"gh-card-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/51\/f8\/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a\/content\/images\/size\/w600\/2026\/05\/screen-melancholy.png\" alt=\"Taiwan Presents \u201cScreen Melancholy: Li Yi-Fan\u201d at the Venice Biennale\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/figure>\n<div class=\"gh-card-wrapper\">\n<h3 class=\"gh-card-title is-title\">Taiwan Presents \u201cScreen Melancholy: Li Yi-Fan\u201d at the Venice Biennale<\/h3>\n<p class=\"gh-card-excerpt is-body\">Presented by the Taipei Fine Arts Museum, the Taiwan Collateral Event transforms the space into a dynamic stage at the Palazzo delle Prigioni.<\/p>\n<footer class=\"gh-card-meta\"><span class=\"gh-card-author\">Taipei Fine Arts Museum (TFAM)<\/span><\/footer>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<article class=\"gh-card post\">\n<figure class=\"gh-card-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/51\/f8\/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a\/content\/images\/size\/w600\/2026\/05\/Kagan_Michelangelo-s-Adam_2025_LKMG.jpg\" alt=\"Steel And Shadows Converge in \u201cLarry Kagan: Men\u201d\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/figure>\n<div class=\"gh-card-wrapper\">\n<h3 class=\"gh-card-title is-title\">Steel And Shadows Converge in \u201cLarry Kagan: Men\u201d<\/h3>\n<p class=\"gh-card-excerpt is-body\">Opening May 9 at Louis K. Meisel Gallery in New York City, this exhibition invites viewers to reconsider sculpture and perception.  <\/p>\n<footer class=\"gh-card-meta\"><span class=\"gh-card-author\">Louis K. Meisel Gallery<\/span><\/footer>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<article class=\"gh-card post\">\n<figure class=\"gh-card-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/51\/f8\/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a\/content\/images\/size\/w600\/2026\/04\/JemmaByun_SelfPortrait.jpg\" alt=\"SMFA at Tufts Presents Passages, the 2026 MFA Thesis Exhibition\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/figure>\n<div class=\"gh-card-wrapper\">\n<h3 class=\"gh-card-title is-title\">SMFA at Tufts Presents Passages, the 2026 MFA Thesis Exhibition<\/h3>\n<p class=\"gh-card-excerpt is-body\">On view from May 5 to 17 in Medford, Massachusetts, this exhibition represents the graduating class and their journeys through worlds visited and imaged. <\/p>\n<footer class=\"gh-card-meta\"><span class=\"gh-card-author\">SMFA at Tufts<\/span><\/footer>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<article class=\"gh-card post\">\n<figure class=\"gh-card-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/51\/f8\/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a\/content\/images\/size\/w600\/2026\/04\/CongressVotingIndependence1856x1350.jpg\" alt=\"Five Independent Souls: The Signers from New Jersey\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/figure>\n<div class=\"gh-card-wrapper\">\n<h3 class=\"gh-card-title is-title\">Five Independent Souls: The Signers from New Jersey<\/h3>\n<p class=\"gh-card-excerpt is-body\">This exhibition at Morven Museum &amp; Garden in Princeton examines the lives of the Declaration\u2019s signers, and those they enslaved, through over 100 historic artifacts.<\/p>\n<footer class=\"gh-card-meta\"><span class=\"gh-card-author\">Morven Museum &amp; Garden<\/span><\/footer>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<p>[analyse_source url=&#8221;https:\/\/hyperallergic.com\/venice-biennale-strike-makes-history\/&#8221;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[analyse_image type=&#8221;featured&#8221; src=&#8221;&#8221;] Daily Newsletter Venice Biennale Strike Makes History Plus, the LA Art Book Fair, and a seagull becomes a Biennale star. 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