In conjunction with the exhibition Healing, Knowing, Seeing the Body, the Spencer Museum of Art commissioned Houston-based transdisciplinary artist Dario Robleto to create a new work of art: The Aorta of an Archivist. This immersive sound and video installation connects Robleto’s deep and longstanding research on the cosmos, the human heart, and the history of […]

The human body has the potential to serve as a universal point of connection. The feats the human body can achieve, the wonder it can inspire, and the pain it can endure offer possibilities for uniting us through shared experience. Everyone has a body—one that comes into existence, changes through time, and eventually succumbs to […]