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In Miami with Leandro Erlich: Liminal at PAMM
I can hardly believe it's been eight full months since I last posted something, but then the year sort of got away from me. Especially...
djbc1956
Nov 27, 20222 min read
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Surrounding Chiloé: My Hyperallergic Adventure
Thanks to funding from the Tremaine Foundation, I was able to travel extensively with my friend & colleague Ramón Castillo through Chiloé...
djbc1956
Mar 11, 20221 min read
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Gabriel de la Mora at Perrotin
Even 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....
djbc1956
Mar 11, 20221 min read
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At Home with Curatorial Associates
As 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...
djbc1956
Nov 4, 20213 min read
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Prospect New Orleans opening weekend reflections
New Orleans contains a lot of powerful memories for me, most of them pleasurable but others quite painful, and it's impossible to open...
djbc1956
Oct 25, 20213 min read
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Back in the Crescent City
It's my fifth day in New Orleans, and really the first moment available for reflection. Since I arrived last Friday I've been slowly...
djbc1956
Oct 19, 20212 min read
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José Clemente Orozco, Spanish Warriors & Indians, 1947
This painting from the National Museum of Fine Arts Collection in Mexico City, has been haunting me ever since I first saw it last month....
djbc1956
Oct 7, 20211 min read
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Keeping Track of it All
Visiting 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...
djbc1956
Oct 7, 20218 min read
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David Alfaro Siqueiros, New Democracy, 1944
Although the two giant murals by Diego Rivera that flank this massive work in the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City are better-known...
djbc1956
Oct 5, 20211 min read
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A Study in Contrasts
I'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...
djbc1956
Sep 26, 20211 min read
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Cristina Canale @ Nara Roesler Gallery, Chelsea
Because 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...
djbc1956
Sep 26, 20211 min read
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Notes 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...
djbc1956
Sep 26, 20212 min read
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July 28, 2021
One 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...
djbc1956
Jul 26, 20212 min read
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The End of the 2021 Season
As a self-styled art worker, I love this time of the year, mostly because watching almost the entire gallery system put itself into a...
djbc1956
Apr 30, 20212 min read
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