djbc1956Mar 111 minSurrounding Chiloé: My Hyperallergic AdventureThanks to funding from the Tremaine Foundation, I was able to travel extensively with my friend & colleague Ramón Castillo through Chiloé...
djbc1956Mar 111 minGabriel de la Mora at PerrotinEven as a longtime fan of Gabriel de la Mora's work, I wasn't expecting his last show to be as powerful & riveting as it turned out....
djbc1956Nov 4, 20213 minAt Home with Curatorial AssociatesAs many of my friends & colleagues already know, in late 2018 I signed the lease on a beautiful former law library on the 3rd floor of...
djbc1956Oct 25, 20213 minProspect New Orleans opening weekend reflectionsNew Orleans contains a lot of powerful memories for me, most of them pleasurable but others quite painful, and it's impossible to open...
djbc1956Oct 19, 20212 minBack in the Crescent CityIt's my fifth day in New Orleans, and really the first moment available for reflection. Since I arrived last Friday I've been slowly...
djbc1956Oct 7, 20211 minJosé Clemente Orozco, Spanish Warriors & Indians, 1947This painting from the National Museum of Fine Arts Collection in Mexico City, has been haunting me ever since I first saw it last month....
djbc1956Oct 7, 20218 minKeeping Track of it AllVisiting art galleries & museums is an essential part of the work I do, but it's also work that's fully self-monitored, so years ago I...
djbc1956Oct 5, 20211 minDavid Alfaro Siqueiros, New Democracy, 1944Although the two giant murals by Diego Rivera that flank this massive work in the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City are better-known...
djbc1956Sep 26, 20211 minA Study in ContrastsI'd been in Chelsea for a couple of hours, making my way steadily from one gallery to the next, when I noticed two things at once: a...
djbc1956Sep 26, 20211 minCristina Canale @ Nara Roesler Gallery, ChelseaBecause I see so many exhibitions of Latin American art, and because I've decided to devote a section of my blog to covering it as a...
djbc1956Sep 26, 20212 minNotes on Going Live (Welcome to my Website?)This is the week that I officially launched the website, and now that I have this extraordinary tool/platform/medium at my complete...
djbc1956Jul 26, 20212 minJuly 28, 2021One part of keeping a blog should be as a repository for those bits of writing that don't correspond to a formal subject, but function...
djbc1956Apr 30, 20212 minThe End of the 2021 SeasonAs a self-styled art worker, I love this time of the year, mostly because watching almost the entire gallery system put itself into a...