Daily Newsletter Also, Aruna D’Souza interviews Australian Pavilion artist Khaled Sabsabi. May 28, 2026 — 3 min read Unveiled against the din of protest chants and on the brink of a historic cultural labor strike, In Minor Keys at the Venice Biennale is “a solid hymn to the billions who carry melancholy and riotous joy in the same heart,” writes Hyperallergic ’s Editor-in-Chief Hakim Bishara. In a review of the exhibition, Bishara touts the ways in which this exhibition elevates the unseen and the unsung. (And if you didn’t like it, “it might be partly about you,” he writes.) Among the artists in that show is Khaled Sabsabi, whom the late curator Koyo Kouoh invited to participate after he was temporarily removed as the Australian pavilion’s pick due to pressure from pro-Israel groups.…