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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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Matthew Weinstein: When the Revolution Comes, It Will Be a 3D Animation Entertainment With Art Merchandizing

(3) Comments | Posted March 15, 2013 | 9:06 AM

This is the second in a series on artists using computer generated imaging (cgi), the source for blue screen effects, 3D animations, and motion capture mapping in Hollywood films, video gaming, and television advertising. It's my prediction that cgi will, within a decade, come to dominate the independent productions of...

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Women Looking at Men Loving: Eve Sussman, Kathryn Bigelow and the Women Writers of Mad Men

(1) Comments | Posted March 8, 2013 | 2:59 PM

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On International Women's Day, 2011, I published on Huffington Post, Part 1 of "XX Chromosocial: Women Artists Cross the Homsocial Divide"--a 7-part series surveying art made by women that conveys the many complexities of the homosocial enclaves of men and women and...

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Internationally Renowned Art Critic, Thomas McEvilley, Dead at 73

(6) Comments | Posted March 4, 2013 | 9:03 AM

Thomas McEvilley, July 13, 1939 - March 2, 2013

Thomas McEvilley, the internationally esteemed art critic, cultural historian, and scholar of Greek and Indian philology, died Saturday morning at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering hospital in New York. His good friend, the poet Charles Bernstein, published the first obituary online, in which...

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Colonizing Abstraction: MoMA's Inventing Abstraction Show Denies Its Ancient Global Origins

(49) Comments | Posted February 14, 2013 | 12:48 AM

The exhibition Inventing Abstraction, 1910-1925 is on view at New York's Museum of Modern Art through April 15, 2013. For further information, consult the MoMA website.


Heads of state and their diplomatic corps know all too well how negotiations among nations can often hinge on so...

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A Time to Gather Stones: Nomadism After War in Susanne Slavick's Out of Rubble

(1) Comments | Posted February 8, 2013 | 11:19 AM

This review is co-published with Duke University Press in its journal Cultural Politics. Duke University has generously provided open access to the art content in the Cultural Politics archive starting with Vol 8, 2012. Read more articles like this one in the Cultural Politics portal.

There...

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Torture and Terror in Art History and the Healing Power of Revelation Before Zero Dark Thirty

(37) Comments | Posted February 1, 2013 | 3:51 PM

When considering torture and terror, the first question of relevance is, Do we require an experience of torture and terror first hand, either as a survivor or as a witness, to be credible on the subject? In our humanity, as much as in our vanity, we may defensively insist that...

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From Dining in Refugee Camps to dOCUMENTA 13: The Art of Seeking Sahrawi Independence

(0) Comments | Posted January 22, 2013 | 8:28 AM

There are few recurring global exhibitions of contemporary art more renown, prestigious and selective than dOCUMENTA, held every five years in Kassal Germany. Which is what makes it so very remarkable that one of the highlights of last year's dOCUMENTA 13 was the inclusion of a refugee encampment made by...

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Ed Asner, Apologist for Slavery? Martin Sheen Endorsing Murder? David Clennon, Executive Sociopath? Not Hardly. So Why Zero Dark Thirty?

(214) Comments | Posted January 15, 2013 | 3:45 PM

We expect actors as talented and esteemed as Martin Sheen, Ed Asner, and David Clennon to know all about the principles of irony, catharsis and sublimation at play in theatrical dramatizations. Simply stated, these are methods of portraying human events and behaviors that are detrimental to real people and societies,...

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Zero Dark Thirty's Kathryn Bigelow Falsely Cast by Naomi Wolf as Nazi Propagandist Leni Riefenstahl

(130) Comments | Posted January 5, 2013 | 3:47 PM

It takes a certain audacity to exploit the memory of the holocaust while at the same time disregarding those both lost and surviving 9/11 in the way that Naomi Wolf did in her January 4 Guardian column, just to slap Kathryn Bigelow for her frank depiction of torture...

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Zero Dark Thirty Account of Torture Verified by Media Record of Legislators and CIA Officials

(64) Comments | Posted December 31, 2012 | 9:36 AM

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In the weeks preceding the release of the much lauded film Zero Dark Thirty--of which everyone by now knows is about one CIA agent's single-minded mission to find Osama bin Laden--something remarkable happened. The CIA, the Senate Intelligence Committee, and a coterie of...

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Zero Dark Thirty: Why the Film's Makers Should Be Defended and What Deeper bin Laden Controversy Has Been Stirred

(38) Comments | Posted December 25, 2012 | 7:52 AM

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To those critics of Zero Dark Thirty who claim the film misleads the public on the role that waterboarding and other torture played in the hunt for Osama bin Laden, I suggest they look forward to the making of some other...

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Deborah Kass at the Andy Warhol Museum: Seeing Through the Mirror of Her Times

(4) Comments | Posted November 16, 2012 | 11:41 AM

Deborah Kass: Before and Happily Ever After is a major mid-career retrospective of paintings, photographs and sculpture by New York artist Deborah Kass at the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, PA. through January 13, 2013. The exhibition features approximately 75 works and showcases Kass' achievements over the course of her three-decade...

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Going Forward in Reverse: The Present Tense(ion) of History Painting (Banisadr, Howe, Dalwood, Steir, Taaffe, Quayola, Wang)

(2) Comments | Posted September 7, 2012 | 12:35 PM

In the last decade, the painters Ali Banisadr, Dexter Dalwood, Catherine Howe, Pat Steir, Philip Taaffe, and Suling Wang, along with one exceptional digital animator from London named simply Quayola, have produced remarkably strong painting as a result ot their immersions in the history of painting and other cultural forms....

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Neil Armstrong and Sally Ride: Boldly Going Forward Into Myth

(11) Comments | Posted August 27, 2012 | 1:27 PM

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In classical civilizations, when beloved heroes died, they were often said to be delivered over to the gods in a divine apotheosis--an act of exaltation that made the heroes themselves godlike in stature. For those who survived them on earth, the heroes...

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Women's Mythopoetic Art: Going Back to Start, Heroically

(6) Comments | Posted August 13, 2012 | 1:20 PM

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

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With her...

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The Dark Mythopoetics of Christopher Nolan's Rising and Setting Knight

(33) Comments | Posted July 20, 2012 | 4:16 PM

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*On 7/24/12 the author added the correlating photos of the battle scene from Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight Rises and Michelangelo's Battle of Hercules and the Centaurs. Originally only a photo of the battle scene with Batman was shown.


If there...

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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 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 a tempestuous...

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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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