--- title: 2019_Ukeles_Art Critique date: 2019-03-01T15:27:00-05:00 author: Cat Zhou canonical_url: "https://feldmangallery.com/news/2019/2019-ukeles-art-critique" section: News --- [![Ronald Feldman Gallery logo](/src/images/rff_logo.svg)](/) ![](/src/images/search.svg) View Artists Search Artists [Exhibitions](/feature_exhibitions) [Past Exhibitions](/past_exhibitions/) [Artists](/artist_overview) [News & Press](/news_overview) [Inventory](https://www.artsy.net/ronald-feldman-gallery/artists) [Publications](/feature_publications) [Gallery Info](/about) [Contact](/contact) [![Facebook](/src/images/fb.svg)](https://www.facebook.com/RonaldFeldmanGallery/) [![Instagram](/src/images/ig.svg)](https://www.instagram.com/feldmangallery/) [![Twitter](/src/images/tw.svg)](https://twitter.com/feldmangallery?lang=en) [Artsy](https://www.artsy.net/ronald-feldman-gallery) [Artnet](http://www.artnet.com/galleries/ronald-feldman-fine-arts/) ![](/src/images/close_btn.svg) 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](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/fredric-riskin-1) [ Richard Ross ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/richard-ross) S [ Diemut Strebe ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/diemut-strebe) [ Edwin Schlossberg ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/edwin-schlossberg) [ Federico Solmi ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/federico-solmi-) [ Jason Salavon ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/jason-salavon) [ Todd Siler ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/todd-siler) U [ Mierle Laderman Ukeles ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/mierle-laderman-ukeles) V [ Sam Van Aken ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/sam-van-aken) W [ Allan Wexler ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/allan-wexler) [ Andy Warhol ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/andy-warhol) [ Clemens Weiss ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/clemens-weiss) [ Hannah Wilke ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/hannah-wilke) Y [ Gil Yefman ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/gil-yefman) [ ![Ronald Feldman Gallery logo](/src/images/rff_logo.svg) ](/) [Mierle Laderman Ukeles ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/mierle-laderman-ukeles) The Art of Repair Art Critique Feb 25, 2019 In 1969, in her the Manifesto for Maintenance Art, the artist Mierle Laderman Ukeles wrote, “The sourball of every revolution: after the revolution, who’s going to pick up the garbage on Monday morning?” The manifesto was rooted in her experience as a mother, and balancing the work of childcare with her work as a visual artist—until one day she realized that her maternal labor, though lacking a physical object, could also be filed under the category of “art.” In her landmark performance art piece, *Touch Sanitation*, Ukeles shook the hands of over 8500 sanitation works across New York City and thanked them for “keeping New York City alive.” The performance honored a form of labor that, while crucial, is often dismissed and invisible (much like the work of motherhood itself.) It called attention to the ongoing work that keeps societies healthy and functioning and yet is not often perceived with the rarified attention we normally reserve for the aesthetic. **[Read more here.](https://www.art-critique.com/en/2019/02/the-art-of-repair/)** Related News & Press Feb 21, 2019 [ ![Cassils Before And After 2014 02](/assets/exhibition_images/Cassils-Before-and-After-2014_02.JPG) ](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2019/2019-cassils-artshub) Feb 21, 2019 Visual ArtsHub [Cassils](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/cassils) [On becoming: a conversation with transgender artist Cassils](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2019/2019-cassils-artshub) Feb 10, 2019 [ ![Cassils Monumental 2017 Installation Shot 06](/assets/exhibition_images/Cassils-MONUMENTAL-2017_installation-shot_06.JPG) ](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2019/2019-cassils-arts-hub) Feb 10, 2019 Arts Hub [Cassils](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/cassils) [Review: Alchemic by Cassils, PICA](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2019/2019-cassils-arts-hub) Feb 08, 2019 [ ![Km Double Self Portrait 1973 1](/assets/exhibition_images/KM-Double-Self-Portrait-1973_1.JPG) ](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2019/2019-k-m-haartz) Feb 08, 2019 Haaretz [Komar & Melamid](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/komar-melamid) [Illicit Masterpieces Created Under the KGB's Nose Make Aliyah](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2019/2019-k-m-haartz) Feb 06, 2019 [ ![Schlossberg Measure Humanity By Ecosystem Health 2018](/assets/exhibition_images/Schlossberg-Measure-Humanity-by-Ecosystem-Health-2018_190212_213740.jpg) ](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2019/2019-schlossberg-blouin-art-info) Feb 06, 2019 Blouin Art Info [Edwin Schlossberg](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/edwin-schlossberg) ["Assignments and Earlier Works" by Edwin Schlossberg at Ronald Feldman Gallery, New York](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2019/2019-schlossberg-blouin-art-info) [See All Press ](https://feldmangallery.com/news_overview) Ronald Feldman Gallery has been at the frontier of contemporary art since 1971. 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