{"id":1946206,"date":"2026-05-19T10:00:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T07:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1946206"},"modified":"2026-05-19T10:00:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T07:00:18","slug":"gabrielle-goliaths-elegy-comes-to-venice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1946206","title":{"rendered":"Gabrielle Goliath\u2019s &#8220;Elegy&#8221; Comes to Venice"},"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\">Gabrielle Goliath\u2019s &#8220;Elegy&#8221; Comes to Venice<\/h1>\n<p class=\"gh-article-excerpt is-body\">A review of the show that was censored by the South African government, Seattle Art Museum workers push for a union, and 12 art books to read this summer.<\/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=\"2026-05-19\">May 19, 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>Back in January, we had to wrap our heads around the fact that South Africa, the same country that charged Israel with genocide at The Hague, censored an exhibition about Palestinian grief. The nation\u2019s Culture Minister Gayton McKenzie, a supporter of Israel, nixed Gabrielle Goliath\u2019s installation <em>Elegy<\/em> for its pavilion at the Venice Biennale, using false accusations of foreign intervention that convinced nobody.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But that wasn\u2019t the end of the story. A few organizations stepped up, and Goliath\u2019s show was eventually installed in a Venice church. \u201cThe censorship of Goliath\u2019s proposed contribution to the Biennale seems especially perverse when confronted with the actual installation, which is hauntingly beautiful and achingly tender,\u201d writes critic Aruna D\u2019Souza. Read her full review of the exhibition today.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>British-Nigerian photographer Misan Harriman would probably identify with Goliath, as he\u2019s being subjected to a smear campaign for his solidarity with Palestinians. Staff reporter Rhea Nayyar has that story. Also, check out our list of art books to read this summer, including new titles by Megan O\u2019Grady and Jennifer Higgie.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014Hakim Bishara, editor-in-chief<\/em><\/p>\n<hr>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-image-card\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/51\/f8\/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a\/content\/images\/2026\/05\/gabrielle-goliath-newsletter.jpg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt loading=\"lazy\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1125\"><\/figure>\n<h3 id=\"gabrielle-goliath-sounds-a-call-to-action-in-venice\">Gabrielle Goliath Sounds a Call to Action in Venice<\/h3>\n<p>With \u201cElegy,\u201d the South African artist proposes that grief is a necessary tool for building solidarity. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Though each work is distinct, in the vaulted space of the church, the voices meld, becoming a choir: All these acts of violence are connected both through geopolitics (the still unfinished work of decolonization) and, here, through sound. We, the viewers, not only hear the music that results, but we also feel it in our bodies thanks to the acoustics of the building. We are implicated, in other words \u2014 we are not allowed to simply watch.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Read the full review by Aruna D\u2019Souza<\/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\/1Jai-Perez-in-rehearsal--Photo-by-Daniel-Jackson-for-Embassy--Interactive--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>ArtPhilly Presents \u201cWhat Now: 2026\u201d<\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span>The five-week city-wide festival will feature over 30 newly-commissioned works created by Philadelphia artists to spark important conversations about the future of the United States.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>                            Learn more<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<hr>\n<h2 id=\"news\">News<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-image-card\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/51\/f8\/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a\/content\/images\/2026\/05\/DSC_0068-1-1.jpg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>Sarah Lucas\u2019s new public sculpture \u201cVENUS VICTORIA\u201d outside Manhattan&#8217;s New Museum subverts the mostly male history of public monuments.<\/li>\n<li>Staff members across departments at the Seattle Art Museum (SAM) have announced their intention to unionize.<\/li>\n<li>Thousands have submitted complaints decrying the right-wing smear campaign against British-Nigerian photographer and arts trustee Misan Harriman. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr>\n<h2 id=\"more-on-hyperallergic\">More on Hyperallergic<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-image-card\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/51\/f8\/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a\/content\/images\/2026\/05\/popeye.jpg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt loading=\"lazy\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1125\"><\/figure>\n<h3 id=\"martin-wong%E2%80%99s-brick-monument-to-popeye\">Martin Wong\u2019s Brick Monument to Popeye<\/h3>\n<p>He repurposed bygone cartoon characters and gave them new life with a queer, magpie sensibility, which still pops two decades after his death. | Brian Karl<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"a-contemporary-art-haven-just-a-path-ride-away\">A Contemporary Art Haven Just a PATH Ride Away<\/h3>\n<p>More than a third of Mana Contemporary\u2019s artists opened their spaces to the public for its spring open studios event, the largest participation number in years. | Aaron Short<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"12-art-books-to-kick-off-summer\">12 Art Books to Kick Off Summer<\/h3>\n<p>Beach reads are officially back. In between your escapist fantasy novels and trendy memoirs, our writers recommend a novel lampooning the art world, Megan O\u2019Grady\u2019s meditation on art and living, and Nan Goldin\u2019s tender photo essay just to name a few.<\/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\/Still-in-Sound_reverbimpulses_CSM-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>Still in Sound<\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span>Sound artists compose sonic and multisensory interpretations of abstract paintings for this new exhibition at the Clyfford Still Museum in Denver, Colorado.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>                            Learn more<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<hr>\n<h2 id=\"member-comment\">Member Comment<\/h2>\n<p>Sandy Sanders on Valentina Di Liscia&#8217;s \u201cFrieze New York Is an Assembly-Line Salad\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"kg-card kg-callout-card kg-callout-card-yellow\">\n<div class=\"kg-callout-text\">&#8220;&#8230;the company uses to deliver products faster than we can wonder whether we really need them.&#8221; Or want them?<\/p>\n<p>Doesn&#8217;t that say just about everything in a nutshell? The isolated enclave that our high income elite have made of what used to be our contemporary art world, now just for themselves, is an empty artifact of their incremental hegemony over American life, since the Gilded Age. The sadness of seeing the contentless-ness, the escape, the aversion to meaningfulness for humanity toward a vibrant Public Commons, the alienation of 90% of society, is a painful realization. <\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<hr>\n<h2 id=\"from-the-archive\">From the Archive<\/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\/archive-newsletter-1.jpg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt loading=\"lazy\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1125\"><figcaption><span>Edouard Manet, \u201cOlympia\u201d (1863) (image via\u00a0Wikimedia Commons)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3 id=\"art-history%E2%80%99s-most-controversial-nudes\">Art History\u2019s Most Controversial Nudes<\/h3>\n<p>The nude figure as a subject has been a battleground issue for as long as it\u2019s been a staple of fine art. | Sarah Rose Sharp<\/p>\n<hr>\n<h2 id=\"opportunities\">Opportunities<\/h2>\n<p>Residencies, fellowships, grants, and open calls from the Bennett Prize, Oak Spring Garden Foundation, and more in our\u00a0May list\u00a0of opportunities for artists, writers, and art workers.<\/p>\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\">Gabrielle Goliath\u2019s &#8220;Elegy&#8221; Comes to Venice<\/h1>\n<p class=\"gh-article-excerpt is-body\">A review of the show that was censored by the South African government, Seattle Art Museum workers push for a union, and 12 art books to read this summer.<\/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=\"2026-05-19\">May 19, 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>Back in January, we had to wrap our heads around the fact that South Africa, the same country that charged Israel with genocide at The Hague, censored an exhibition about Palestinian grief. The nation\u2019s Culture Minister Gayton McKenzie, a supporter of Israel, nixed Gabrielle Goliath\u2019s installation <em>Elegy<\/em> for its pavilion at the Venice Biennale, using false accusations of foreign intervention that convinced nobody.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But that wasn\u2019t the end of the story. A few organizations stepped up, and Goliath\u2019s show was eventually installed in a Venice church. \u201cThe censorship of Goliath\u2019s proposed contribution to the Biennale seems especially perverse when confronted with the actual installation, which is hauntingly beautiful and achingly tender,\u201d writes critic Aruna D\u2019Souza. Read her full review of the exhibition today.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>British-Nigerian photographer Misan Harriman would probably identify with Goliath, as he\u2019s being subjected to a smear campaign for his solidarity with Palestinians. Staff reporter Rhea Nayyar has that story. Also, check out our list of art books to read this summer, including new titles by Megan O\u2019Grady and Jennifer Higgie.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014Hakim Bishara, editor-in-chief<\/em><\/p>\n<hr>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-image-card\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/51\/f8\/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a\/content\/images\/2026\/05\/gabrielle-goliath-newsletter.jpg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt loading=\"lazy\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1125\"><\/figure>\n<h3 id=\"gabrielle-goliath-sounds-a-call-to-action-in-venice\">Gabrielle Goliath Sounds a Call to Action in Venice<\/h3>\n<p>With \u201cElegy,\u201d the South African artist proposes that grief is a necessary tool for building solidarity. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Though each work is distinct, in the vaulted space of the church, the voices meld, becoming a choir: All these acts of violence are connected both through geopolitics (the still unfinished work of decolonization) and, here, through sound. We, the viewers, not only hear the music that results, but we also feel it in our bodies thanks to the acoustics of the building. We are implicated, in other words \u2014 we are not allowed to simply watch.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Read the full review by Aruna D\u2019Souza<\/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\/1Jai-Perez-in-rehearsal--Photo-by-Daniel-Jackson-for-Embassy--Interactive--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>ArtPhilly Presents \u201cWhat Now: 2026\u201d<\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span>The five-week city-wide festival will feature over 30 newly-commissioned works created by Philadelphia artists to spark important conversations about the future of the United States.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>                            Learn more<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<hr>\n<h2 id=\"news\">News<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-image-card\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/51\/f8\/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a\/content\/images\/2026\/05\/DSC_0068-1-1.jpg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>Sarah Lucas\u2019s new public sculpture \u201cVENUS VICTORIA\u201d outside Manhattan&#8217;s New Museum subverts the mostly male history of public monuments.<\/li>\n<li>Staff members across departments at the Seattle Art Museum (SAM) have announced their intention to unionize.<\/li>\n<li>Thousands have submitted complaints decrying the right-wing smear campaign against British-Nigerian photographer and arts trustee Misan Harriman. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr>\n<h2 id=\"more-on-hyperallergic\">More on Hyperallergic<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-image-card\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/51\/f8\/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a\/content\/images\/2026\/05\/popeye.jpg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt loading=\"lazy\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1125\"><\/figure>\n<h3 id=\"martin-wong%E2%80%99s-brick-monument-to-popeye\">Martin Wong\u2019s Brick Monument to Popeye<\/h3>\n<p>He repurposed bygone cartoon characters and gave them new life with a queer, magpie sensibility, which still pops two decades after his death. | Brian Karl<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"a-contemporary-art-haven-just-a-path-ride-away\">A Contemporary Art Haven Just a PATH Ride Away<\/h3>\n<p>More than a third of Mana Contemporary\u2019s artists opened their spaces to the public for its spring open studios event, the largest participation number in years. | Aaron Short<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"12-art-books-to-kick-off-summer\">12 Art Books to Kick Off Summer<\/h3>\n<p>Beach reads are officially back. In between your escapist fantasy novels and trendy memoirs, our writers recommend a novel lampooning the art world, Megan O\u2019Grady\u2019s meditation on art and living, and Nan Goldin\u2019s tender photo essay just to name a few.<\/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\/Still-in-Sound_reverbimpulses_CSM-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>Still in Sound<\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span>Sound artists compose sonic and multisensory interpretations of abstract paintings for this new exhibition at the Clyfford Still Museum in Denver, Colorado.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>                            Learn more<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<hr>\n<h2 id=\"member-comment\">Member Comment<\/h2>\n<p>Sandy Sanders on Valentina Di Liscia&#8217;s \u201cFrieze New York Is an Assembly-Line Salad\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"kg-card kg-callout-card kg-callout-card-yellow\">\n<div class=\"kg-callout-text\">&#8220;&#8230;the company uses to deliver products faster than we can wonder whether we really need them.&#8221; Or want them?<\/p>\n<p>Doesn&#8217;t that say just about everything in a nutshell? The isolated enclave that our high income elite have made of what used to be our contemporary art world, now just for themselves, is an empty artifact of their incremental hegemony over American life, since the Gilded Age. The sadness of seeing the contentless-ness, the escape, the aversion to meaningfulness for humanity toward a vibrant Public Commons, the alienation of 90% of society, is a painful realization. <\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<hr>\n<h2 id=\"from-the-archive\">From the Archive<\/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\/archive-newsletter-1.jpg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt loading=\"lazy\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1125\"><figcaption><span>Edouard Manet, \u201cOlympia\u201d (1863) (image via\u00a0Wikimedia Commons)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3 id=\"art-history%E2%80%99s-most-controversial-nudes\">Art History\u2019s Most Controversial Nudes<\/h3>\n<p>The nude figure as a subject has been a battleground issue for as long as it\u2019s been a staple of fine art. | Sarah Rose Sharp<\/p>\n<hr>\n<h2 id=\"opportunities\">Opportunities<\/h2>\n<p>Residencies, fellowships, grants, and open calls from the Bennett Prize, Oak Spring Garden Foundation, and more in our\u00a0May list\u00a0of opportunities for artists, writers, and art workers.<\/p>\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>Back in January, we had to wrap our heads around the fact that South Africa, the same country that charged Israel with genocide at The Hague, censored an exhibition about Palestinian grief. The nation\u2019s Culture Minister Gayton McKenzie, a supporter of Israel, nixed Gabrielle Goliath\u2019s installation <em>Elegy<\/em> for its pavilion at the Venice Biennale, using false accusations of foreign intervention that convinced nobody.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But that wasn\u2019t the end of the story. A few organizations stepped up, and Goliath\u2019s show was eventually installed in a Venice church. \u201cThe censorship of Goliath\u2019s proposed contribution to the Biennale seems especially perverse when confronted with the actual installation, which is hauntingly beautiful and achingly tender,\u201d writes critic Aruna D\u2019Souza. Read her full review of the exhibition today.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>British-Nigerian photographer Misan Harriman would probably identify with Goliath, as he\u2019s being subjected to a smear campaign for his solidarity with Palestinians. Staff reporter Rhea Nayyar has that story. Also, check out our list of art books to read this summer, including new titles by Megan O\u2019Grady and Jennifer Higgie.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014Hakim Bishara, editor-in-chief<\/em><\/p>\n<hr>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-image-card\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/51\/f8\/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a\/content\/images\/2026\/05\/gabrielle-goliath-newsletter.jpg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt loading=\"lazy\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1125\"><\/figure>\n<h3 id=\"gabrielle-goliath-sounds-a-call-to-action-in-venice\">Gabrielle Goliath Sounds a Call to Action in Venice<\/h3>\n<p>With \u201cElegy,\u201d the South African artist proposes that grief is a necessary tool for building solidarity. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Though each work is distinct, in the vaulted space of the church, the voices meld, becoming a choir: All these acts of violence are connected both through geopolitics (the still unfinished work of decolonization) and, here, through sound. We, the viewers, not only hear the music that results, but we also feel it in our bodies thanks to the acoustics of the building. We are implicated, in other words \u2014 we are not allowed to simply watch.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Read the full review by Aruna D\u2019Souza<\/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\/1Jai-Perez-in-rehearsal--Photo-by-Daniel-Jackson-for-Embassy--Interactive--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>ArtPhilly Presents \u201cWhat Now: 2026\u201d<\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span>The five-week city-wide festival will feature over 30 newly-commissioned works created by Philadelphia artists to spark important conversations about the future of the United States.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>                            Learn more<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<hr>\n<h2 id=\"news\">News<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-image-card\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/51\/f8\/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a\/content\/images\/2026\/05\/DSC_0068-1-1.jpg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>Sarah Lucas\u2019s new public sculpture \u201cVENUS VICTORIA\u201d outside Manhattan&#8217;s New Museum subverts the mostly male history of public monuments.<\/li>\n<li>Staff members across departments at the Seattle Art Museum (SAM) have announced their intention to unionize.<\/li>\n<li>Thousands have submitted complaints decrying the right-wing smear campaign against British-Nigerian photographer and arts trustee Misan Harriman. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr>\n<h2 id=\"more-on-hyperallergic\">More on Hyperallergic<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-image-card\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/51\/f8\/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a\/content\/images\/2026\/05\/popeye.jpg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt loading=\"lazy\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1125\"><\/figure>\n<h3 id=\"martin-wong%E2%80%99s-brick-monument-to-popeye\">Martin Wong\u2019s Brick Monument to Popeye<\/h3>\n<p>He repurposed bygone cartoon characters and gave them new life with a queer, magpie sensibility, which still pops two decades after his death. | Brian Karl<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"a-contemporary-art-haven-just-a-path-ride-away\">A Contemporary Art Haven Just a PATH Ride Away<\/h3>\n<p>More than a third of Mana Contemporary\u2019s artists opened their spaces to the public for its spring open studios event, the largest participation number in years. | Aaron Short<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"12-art-books-to-kick-off-summer\">12 Art Books to Kick Off Summer<\/h3>\n<p>Beach reads are officially back. In between your escapist fantasy novels and trendy memoirs, our writers recommend a novel lampooning the art world, Megan O\u2019Grady\u2019s meditation on art and living, and Nan Goldin\u2019s tender photo essay just to name a few.<\/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\/Still-in-Sound_reverbimpulses_CSM-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>Still in Sound<\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span>Sound artists compose sonic and multisensory interpretations of abstract paintings for this new exhibition at the Clyfford Still Museum in Denver, Colorado.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>                            Learn more<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<hr>\n<h2 id=\"member-comment\">Member Comment<\/h2>\n<p>Sandy Sanders on Valentina Di Liscia&#8217;s \u201cFrieze New York Is an Assembly-Line Salad\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"kg-card kg-callout-card kg-callout-card-yellow\">\n<div class=\"kg-callout-text\">&#8220;&#8230;the company uses to deliver products faster than we can wonder whether we really need them.&#8221; Or want them?<\/p>\n<p>Doesn&#8217;t that say just about everything in a nutshell? The isolated enclave that our high income elite have made of what used to be our contemporary art world, now just for themselves, is an empty artifact of their incremental hegemony over American life, since the Gilded Age. The sadness of seeing the contentless-ness, the escape, the aversion to meaningfulness for humanity toward a vibrant Public Commons, the alienation of 90% of society, is a painful realization. <\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<hr>\n<h2 id=\"from-the-archive\">From the Archive<\/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\/archive-newsletter-1.jpg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt loading=\"lazy\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1125\"><figcaption><span>Edouard Manet, \u201cOlympia\u201d (1863) (image via\u00a0Wikimedia Commons)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3 id=\"art-history%E2%80%99s-most-controversial-nudes\">Art History\u2019s Most Controversial Nudes<\/h3>\n<p>The nude figure as a subject has been a battleground issue for as long as it\u2019s been a staple of fine art. | Sarah Rose Sharp<\/p>\n<hr>\n<h2 id=\"opportunities\">Opportunities<\/h2>\n<p>Residencies, fellowships, grants, and open calls from the Bennett Prize, Oak Spring Garden Foundation, and more in our\u00a0May list\u00a0of opportunities for artists, writers, and art workers.<\/p>\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\/CMoG_Image_5.png\" alt=\"Tough Stuff: Women in The American Glass Studio\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/figure>\n<div class=\"gh-card-wrapper\">\n<h3 class=\"gh-card-title is-title\">Tough Stuff: Women in The American Glass Studio<\/h3>\n<p class=\"gh-card-excerpt is-body\">Highlighting works from the 1960s through today, this survey at the Corning Museum of Glass celebrates the legacies of women artists who helped shape the Studio Glass Movement in the US.\n<\/p>\n<footer class=\"gh-card-meta\"><span class=\"gh-card-author\">Corning Museum of Glass<\/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\/Still-in-Sound_reverbimpulses_CSM.jpg\" alt=\"Still in Sound\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/figure>\n<div class=\"gh-card-wrapper\">\n<h3 class=\"gh-card-title is-title\">Still in Sound<\/h3>\n<p class=\"gh-card-excerpt is-body\">Sound artists compose sonic and multisensory interpretations of abstract paintings for this new exhibition at the Clyfford Still Museum in Denver, Colorado. <\/p>\n<footer class=\"gh-card-meta\"><span class=\"gh-card-author\">Clyfford Still Museum<\/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\/1Jai-Perez-in-rehearsal--Photo-by-Daniel-Jackson-for-Embassy--Interactive-.jpg\" alt=\"ArtPhilly Presents \u201cWhat Now: 2026\u201d\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/figure>\n<div class=\"gh-card-wrapper\">\n<h3 class=\"gh-card-title is-title\">ArtPhilly Presents \u201cWhat Now: 2026\u201d<\/h3>\n<p class=\"gh-card-excerpt is-body\">The five-week city-wide festival will feature over 30 newly-commissioned works created by Philadelphia artists to spark important conversations about the future of the United States.\n<\/p>\n<footer class=\"gh-card-meta\"><span class=\"gh-card-author\">ArtPhilly<\/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\/Option2RISDGradShow25JBS023--1-.jpeg\" alt=\"RISD Grad Show 2026\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/figure>\n<div class=\"gh-card-wrapper\">\n<h3 class=\"gh-card-title is-title\">RISD Grad Show 2026<\/h3>\n<p class=\"gh-card-excerpt is-body\">Graduate student work representing 19 advanced degree programs will be on view online and in person at the Rhode Island Convention Center starting May 21.<\/p>\n<footer class=\"gh-card-meta\"><span class=\"gh-card-author\">Rhode Island School of Design<\/span><\/footer>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<p>[analyse_source url=&#8221;https:\/\/hyperallergic.com\/gabrielle-goliaths-elegy-comes-to-venice\/&#8221;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[analyse_image type=&#8221;featured&#8221; src=&#8221;&#8221;] Daily Newsletter Gabrielle Goliath\u2019s &#8220;Elegy&#8221; Comes to Venice A review of the show that was censored by the South African government, Seattle Art Museum workers push for a union, and 12 art books to read this summer. 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