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G. Roger Denson is a critic, essayist, novelist, screen writer, and cultural nomad living in New York City who has written on art and culture for Art in America, Parkett, Artscribe International, Flash Art, Bijutsu Techo, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, and numerous other international magazines and journals. He has taught criticism and theory at the School of Visual Arts in New York, was program director for international exhibitions, screenings and performances at HALLWALLS, curated exhibitions for The New Museum, the Alternative Museum, and various NYC commercial galleries, and for several years raised funds for the New York City Ballet and the New York Philharmonic. His novel VOICE OF FORCE, on the sexual difference between two men, was released this year.

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Nomads Occupy the Global Village: Left Political Art Timeline, 2001-2012.

(1) Comments | Posted May 1, 2012 | 1:13 PM

This is Part 6 of the Timeline of Left Social and Political Art, 2001-2009. See Part 1, 1900-1944, Part 2, 1945-1966, Part 3, 1967-1979, Part 4, 1980-1989, and Part 5, 1989-2000, on Huffington Post.

It was Thursday, September 6,...

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When Walls Come Falling Down: Left Political Art Timeline, 1989-2000

(8) Comments | Posted April 16, 2012 | 3:32 PM

This is Part 5 of the Timeline of Left Social and Political Art, 1989-2000. See Part 1, 1900-1944, Part 2, 1945-1966, and Part 3, 1967-1979, and Part 4, 1980-1989, on Huffington Post.

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1989: If...

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When the Personal Is Made Political: Left Political Art Timeline, 1980-1989

(4) Comments | Posted April 16, 2012 | 3:32 PM

This is Part 4 of the Timeline of Left Social and Political Art, 1980-1989. See Part 1, 1900-1944, Part 2, 1945-1966, and Part 3, 1967-1979, on Huffington Post.

It may have been in the 1960s and the 1970s that the American Left enjoyed...

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Mira Schor Reclaims Voice, Speech and Writing for Painting

(2) Comments | Posted April 3, 2012 | 3:25 PM

The conceptual paintings of Mira Schor are on view at the Marvelli Gallery at 526 West 26th Street, 2nd floor, in Manhattan, through April 28, 2012. Visit the Marvelli Gallery website for further information. Mira Schor will also be featured at the Dallas Art Fair, April 12-15, at...

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Cindy Sherman as Orson Welles... as John Ford... as Vittorio De Sica... as Alfred Hitchcock... as...

(4) Comments | Posted March 5, 2012 | 2:09 PM

Cindy Sherman's Untitled Film Stills are on view at The Museum of Modern Art in New York through June 11, 2012. They compose one part of the museum's Cindy Sherman retrospective, which covers forty years of the artist's work to the present. For further information and directions, visit...

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Did Men Invent Art to Become Women? Must Women Become Men to Make Great Art?

(19) Comments | Posted January 20, 2012 | 9:05 AM

This is Part Five of the seven-part series, XX CHROMOSOCIAL: WOMEN ARTISTS CROSS THE HOMOSOCIAL DIVIDE. See Part One, Part Two, Part Three and Part Four on HUFFINGTON POST.

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There is conjecture that men created...

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You Say You Want A Revolution. Well You Know, Art Can Cure You Of That

(26) Comments | Posted December 27, 2011 | 2:40 PM

This is Part 3 of the Timeline of Left Social and Political Art, 1966-1975. See Part 1, 1900-1944, and Part 2, 1945-1966, on Huffington Post.

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Feel your solidarity with the radical art of the 1960s. View...

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Political Art Timeline, 1945-1966: Postwar Art of the Left

(10) Comments | Posted December 3, 2011 | 9:00 AM

This is Part 2 of the Timeline of Leftist Social and Political Art. See Part 1, 1900-1944, on Huffington Post.

I might have justifiably started this timeline of political art with the year 1932, when Stalin's forced famine in the Ukraine killed 7 million people. Or 1933,...

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Can the Art of Victims and Collaborators Be Viewed Together?

(9) Comments | Posted December 1, 2011 | 1:31 PM

At the close of the Second World War, an obsession with the Existentialist philosophy of the human condition began taking hold of artists and intellectuals, as it would for the succeeding two decades. In retrospect, it is hard to imagine another philosophy either possessed of the enormous reserve of literary...

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Diego Rivera at MoMA Makes Us Ask, What Happened to the Radical Left in Art?

(23) Comments | Posted November 18, 2011 | 6:03 PM

Diego Rivera: Murals for The Museum of Modern Art is on view at MoMA from November 13, 2011 to May 14, 2012. The exhibition unites key works made for Rivera's 1931 MoMA exhibition, which set new attendance records in its five-week run from December 22, 1931, to January 27, 1932....

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Courbet's Origin Of The World Still Too Scandalous For Media-Savvy Facebook!

(415) Comments | Posted November 11, 2011 | 4:05 PM

Editor's Disclaimer: This post contains images of the human form that some consider graphic and may be inappropriate viewing for a workplace setting.

Whether we attribute it to the power that women hold over men, the unconscious envy of men denied the facility to give birth, or Courbet's audacity to...

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From Victim to Victor: Women Turn the Representation of Rape Inside Out.

(10) Comments | Posted November 7, 2011 | 2:41 PM

This is Part Four of the seven-part series, XX CHROMOSOCIAL: WOMEN ARTISTS CROSS THE HOMOSOCIAL DIVIDE. See Part One, Part Two, and Part Three on HUFFINGTON POST.


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It seems an enlightening enterprise to...

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Projecting the Future of Painting in Claudia Hart's 3D Utopian eScapes

(3) Comments | Posted October 17, 2011 | 10:13 AM

New York City gallery goers can see Claudia Hart's solo exhibition, When A Rose is Not a Rose, Oct 25 - Dec 3, with a reception Oct 29, at bitforms gallery, 529 West 20th Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY 10011, 212 366 6939. Also opening Oct 25 and running...

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"Old," "Crazy" and "Hysterical." Is That All There Is?

(6) Comments | Posted October 5, 2011 | 5:12 PM

Martha Wilson's solo show, I have become my own worst fear, is on view at P·P·O·W Gallery, 535 West 22nd Street, 3rd Floor, 212-647-1044. Crazy Lady, curated by art critic Jane Harris, and Det Syke, new paintings by Jordan Bunch, are on view at Schroeder Romero & Shredder, 531 West...

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From Detroit, Egypt: Matthew Barney Resurrects an American God

(10) Comments | Posted September 30, 2011 | 2:40 PM

This is a review of the sculptural installation DJED by artist Matthew Barney at the Barbara Gladstone Gallery at 530 West 21st Street, New York, which will be on view through October 22, 2011. Gallery hours are Tuesday through Saturday, 10am - 6pm. To read about the Detroit performance and...

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The World Is a Mind in Thomas Demand's La Carte d'après Nature

(6) Comments | Posted September 22, 2011 | 12:46 PM

La Carte d'après Nature, an exhibition curated by Thomas Demand, will be on view at the Matthew Marks Gallery, 522 West 22nd Street (between 10th and 11th Avenues) through October 8, 2011. Gallery hours are Tuesday through Saturday, 11:00 A.M. to 6:00 P.M.

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Michael Arad's 9/11 Memorial 'Reflecting Absence': More Than a Metaphor Or A Monument

(10) Comments | Posted September 11, 2011 | 5:02 PM

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This is a review of the 9/11 Memorial by architect Michael Arad. For more detailed biographical and historical information concerning Arad and the commisioning and preparations for this memorial, see "The Memorial Architect: Michael Arad's 9/11 Moment Arrives" by Karen Matthews...

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Women's Art of Renewal: Carrie Mae Weems, Vanessa Beecroft, Sharon Lockhart, Catherine Opie and Lisa Yuskavage

(0) Comments | Posted August 23, 2011 | 7:09 PM

This is Part Three of the seven-part series, XX CHROMOSOCIAL: WOMEN ARTISTS CROSS THE HOMOSOCIAL DIVIDE. Part One, with its list of installments and the artists featured in each, can be found on HUFFINGTON POST here.


Art long outlives the institutions and ideologies it is made...

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In Taipei And Hong Kong, Emily Cheng Bridges Science And Faith

(24) Comments | Posted July 12, 2011 | 1:41 AM

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New York artist Emily Cheng attempts to reconcile the traditionally oppositional modes of science and faith in two concurrent solo exhibitions of conceptual paintings and drawings. At The Museum of Contemporary Art in Taipei, Cheng presents Charting Sacred Territories: Holy Morphosis,...

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Jack Smith and the Aesthetics of Camp in an Era of Political Correctness

(9) Comments | Posted June 20, 2011 | 12:53 AM

"Thanks for Explaining Me" is the name of the exhibition of sketches, collages, photographs and films by Jack Smith curated by Neville Wakefield for the Barbara Gladstone Gallery, on view from May 6 - June 16, 2011.

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If there's an artist...

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