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djbc1956
Nov 27, 20222 min read
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...
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djbc1956
Mar 11, 20221 min read
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, 20221 min read
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, 20213 min read
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, 20213 min read
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, 20212 min read
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, 20211 min read
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, 20218 min read
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, 20211 min read
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, 20211 min read
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, 20211 min read
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, 20212 min read
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, 20212 min read
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, 20212 min read
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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