Hakim Bishara

Queer Elders — 8 min read Ed Woodham in Adam & Steve (2026), a photo and performance series (all photos courtesy the artist) Just when you’re about to give up on this power-hungry, money-obsessed, star-fucking art world and its market-driven media, people like Ed Woodham come along and restore your faith in what art can do for society. The decades-long practice of the 69-year-old Atlanta-born artist, curator, and educator is thoroughly rooted in community.

After getting a Democratic Socialist Muslim mayor and winning its first NBA championship in 53 years, New York’s next big surprise could be a congresswoman who started out as an artist and art worker. New York State Assembly Member Claire Valdez, a union organizer at heart, is running for New York’s 7th Congressional District in the US House of Representatives.

Art Review — 7 min read Big Chief Demond Melancon’s “Amistad Takeover” (2026) at the Venice Biennale’s main exhibition In Minor Keys (all photos Hakim Bishara/Hyperallergic) VENICE — If you’re Eurocentric by disposition, confident that the West is the single source of high art and ideas of progress, then don’t visit Koyo Kouoh’s exhibition In Minor Keys at the 2026 Venice Biennale. If you bristle at the mention of White colonizers, this show is not for you, though it might be partly about you.