The pieces that will join the Dallas Museum of Art’s collection this year are as follows: Zihzabal, 2018, by Sheila Hicks, LX, 2016, by Don Dudley, When You Give Your Love Away, 2018, by Arcmanoro Niles, Azmira’s Daughters, 2018, by Maja Ruznic, Street Can: Diet Coke (12 fl oz) (04/03/2014 Red Hook, Brooklyn), 2014, by Nobutaka Aozaki, Untitled, 1986, by Dike Blair, Intercalate, 2018, by Samuel Levi Jones and VideoSculpture XX (World’s 6th Sense), 2019, by Emmanuel Van der Auwera.

The big reveal was made by Dr. Anna Katherine Brodbeck, the D.M.A.’s Hoffman Family Senior Curator of Contemporary Art. “It’s really one of my favorite times of the year,” Brodbeck said. “It’s such a crucial element to the ecosystem here in Dallas. The work here is just very exciting…both for new or emerging artists, but also to see [the] work of artists who are very historically important that may have been left out of the canon.”

“We were able to get works by artists who are part of the minimalist movement, post-minimalist movement, the pictures generation…as well as artists who are innovating time-based media in immersive installations,” Brodbeck continued.

One thing you hear from many regulars on the Dallas art scene is that there’s a true and ingrained sense of community present in the bedrock of the city. The electrifying variety of the works referenced above certainly helps to affirm that this is the case.