G. Roger Denson

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,...

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.

1989: If...

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...

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...

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...

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.

There is conjecture that men created...

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.

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,...

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...

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....

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...

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.

It seems an enlightening enterprise to...

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...

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...

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...

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.

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...

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...

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,...

"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.

If there's an artist...