Essays

“Kazuya Sakai In Texas” / Athenaeum Review

How did an Argentine artist, critic, translator, jazz expert, radio host, graphic designer, professor, and pioneer of geometric abstraction in Mexico come to retire in Richardson, Texas?

“Corsicana Unveils Sculpture by Spencer Evans Honoring an Important Black Leader in the City’s History” / Glasstire

The culmination of the project has preserved a chapter of Corsicana’s history, and created space for new chapters to begin.

“G. W. Jackson, Spencer Evans, and a Corsicana History in the Making” / Glasstire

Over the past year, Spencer Evans has been getting to know G. W. Jackson, a brilliant leader who served for 45 years as the founding principal of Corsicana’s first public school for Black students. If you visit Corsicana today, you’ll struggle to find anything that shows what an important figure Jackson was in the city’s history. That’s about to change.

Staged Presence: Armin Mühsam and Debra M. Smith at Anteroom Corsicana

A person, their eyes tuned after viewing Mühsam’s and Smith’s works, might find a new appreciation for the lines, planes, and shapes appearing in the room, given temporary presence by light and shadow.

"The Arts of Oppression at Southern Methodist University’s Pollock Gallery" / Glasstire

The idea for The Arts of Oppression can be traced back to when Miles was incarcerated and had a job in a unit craft shop. He realized it was the one place where incarcerated people saw the value of their work.

Blog Posts

Pride Month Spotlight: Los Contemporáneos / June 23, 2023

Dále Gas Turns 45 / August 16, 2022

New in the Archive: Mercedes Pardo’s Milestones / July 29, 2022

The Texas Kid and ‘True Stories’ / March 11, 2019

Preserving 100-Year-Old Plastic: Naum Gabo’s “Constructed Head No. 2 / November 11, 2019

Ruth Pershing Uhler: A Texas Woman Artist to Know / January 31, 2019

Piecing Together ‘Ida O’Keeffe’ / February 15, 2019

Publications

TWO x TWO x TWENTY: Two Decades Supporting Contemporary Art at the Dallas Museum of Art (Dallas Museum of Art, 2018). Edited by Anna Katherine Brodbeck. Contributors: Elise Armani, Agustín Arteaga, Anna Katherine Brodbeck, Gavin Delahunty, Jeffrey D. Grove, Lillian Michel, Chelsea Pierce, Cindy Rachofsky, Howard Rachofsky, Gabriel Ritter, Kevin W. Tucker, Suzanne Weaver, Charles Wylie