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...
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djbc1956
- Mar 11
- 1 min
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....
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djbc1956
- Nov 4, 2021
- 3 min
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...
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djbc1956
- Oct 25, 2021
- 3 min
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...
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djbc1956
- Oct 19, 2021
- 2 min
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...
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djbc1956
- Oct 7, 2021
- 1 min
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....
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djbc1956
- Oct 7, 2021
- 8 min
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...
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djbc1956
- Oct 5, 2021
- 1 min
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...
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djbc1956
- Sep 26, 2021
- 1 min
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...
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djbc1956
- Sep 26, 2021
- 1 min
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...
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djbc1956
- Sep 26, 2021
- 2 min
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...
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djbc1956
- Jul 26, 2021
- 2 min
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...
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djbc1956
- Apr 30, 2021
- 2 min
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...
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