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Invisible Man

Posted on August 13, 2019 by Deven Golden

Joseph Elmer Yoakum June 20 – July 26, 2019 Venus Over Manhattan 980 Madison Avenue New York, NY 10075 Thirty-five years ago I reviewed an exhibition that attempted to show Joseph Yoakum’s influence on a wide range of artists working … Continue reading →

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Tower of Power

Posted on January 2, 2019 by Deven Golden

Hilma af Klint: Painting for the Future at the Guggenheim October 12, 2018 – April 23, 2019 Weeks after viewing the revelatory Hilma af Klint exhibition at the Guggenheim, three thoughts continue to circle around in my mind. First, naturally, … Continue reading →

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The Raw and the Cooked

Posted on September 25, 2018 by Deven Golden

Ordinarily I only refer to my previously published articles on the ArtMonkeyWrench Links to Other Writing page. I’m making an exception and reposting this piece directly on my site because it’s the very first essay I wrote for Artcritical and … Continue reading →

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Don Voisine, Catalogue Essay for 2009 Exhibition at McKenzie Fine Art, New York

Posted on September 7, 2018 by Deven Golden

While I work on my next essay for ArtMonkeyWrench, I thought it might be a good idea to start posting previous catalogue essays and old reviews that are not otherwise available online (which in our modern world means that they … Continue reading →

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Wirsum 2018

Posted on August 13, 2018 by Deven Golden

On Dangerous Ground Like Isaac Bashevitz Singer’s simple but honest hero Gimpel the Fool, Wirsum’s goofy characters often inhabit a dangerous, unpredictable territory. Yet, like Gimpel, they manage, whether from divine intervention or sheer luck, to find a happy ending. … Continue reading →

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Death and the Critic

Posted on August 10, 2017 by Deven Golden

For me, the difficulty writing about visual art starts with my struggle to describe the open-ended and visceral experience of looking within the far narrower limitations of language. Prose writers complain about the information and nuance lost when their work … Continue reading →

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The Chimera Francis Picabia: Our Heads Are Round so Our Thoughts Can Change Direction Museum of Modern Art, New York November 20, 2016 – March 19, 2017 Problem Child Francis Picabia’s art continues to confound. To simply read the reviews … Continue reading →

Posted on April 22, 2017 by Deven Golden | 1 Comment

Sundays in the Arbor with Gladys

Posted on December 22, 2014 by Deven Golden

Gladys Nilsson October 23 – December 6th, 2014 Garth Greenen Gallery 529 West 20th Street – 10th floor New York, NY 10011 How happy I was to walk into Garth Greenan Gallery this past Saturday and find that the exhibition … Continue reading →

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