🎭 Culture May 8, 2026 · Hakim Bishara

Historic Strike Disrupts Biennale as Thousands March in Venice

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Historic Strike Disrupts Biennale as Thousands March in Venice
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VENICE — Artists and cultural workers made history at the Venice Biennale today as they launched a major strike that disrupted the pre-opening of the international exhibition. It is the first cultural strike in the biennale's 131-year history. At least 27 of the exhibition’s 100 national pavilions were partially or fully shut down this morning, May 8, while artists draped or altered their works in the main exhibition In Minor Keys as part of a 24-hour strike for Palestine an

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