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Maintenance Art Works

Mierle Laderman Ukeles

May 07 – Jun 12, 1998

Mierle Laderman Ukeles

It's OK to Have a Babysitter, January 15, 1974

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In 1969, "frazzled and dazzled" by the requirements of surviving as an artist while being a new mother, Mierle Ukeles wrote The Manifesto for Maintenance Art: "Care." Starting with personal maintenance, the work broadened to the maintenance of cultural institutions, urban and societal maintenance, and sustaining the earth itself. From 1977-80, the artist interacted with the entire New York City Department of Sanitation in the ground-breaking Touch Sanitation Performance.