October 18, 2025 – February 2, 2026
Assembly Lines: Modernism and Machines
Bechtler Museum, Charlotte, NC.
Assembly Lines: Modernism and Machines examines the profound impact of mechanization, industrial innovation, and technology on artistic production from the early 20th century to the present day. Tracing the ever-evolving relationship between the human hand and the hum of industry from the rise of modernism to today’s era of artificial intelligence, the exhibition highlights how artists have engaged with the possibilities, anxieties, and legacies of the Machine Age.
Encompassing a range of visual strategies and conceptual approaches, the works on view reflect both enthusiasm for and skepticism toward the technological forces that have shaped modern and contemporary life. Taken together, these works invite viewers to consider how the continually shifting relationship between humans and machines has expanded the boundaries of artmaking.
Featured Artists Include: Margaret Bourke-White, Le Corbusier, Ivan Depeña, Kiki Kogelnik, Roy Lichtenstein, Francis Picabia, Dario Robleto, Elias Sime, Jean Tinguely, and Jack Whitten, among others.
December 5, 2025
Film Screening: Ancient Beacons Long for Notice
Ancient Beacons Long for Notice to screen at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Co-presented by Aurora Picture Show.
Post-film discussion with filmmaker Dario Robleto and Aurora Picture Show curator Peter Lucas.
October 26, 2025
Glasstire
Review: Dario Robleto’s “If You Remember, I’ll Remember” at Art League Houston
by Melissa L. Mednicov
September 16, 2025
Burnaway
The Art of Living with the Dead: On Dario Robleto’s Care for Ghostly Matters
by Emile Mausner
September 26 - December 21, 2025
If You Remember, I’ll Remember
Dario Robleto:
2025 Texas Artist of the Year
If You Remember, I’ll Remember features a selection of work by the 2025 Texas Artist of the Year, Dario Robleto. This exhibition highlights Robleto’s transdisciplinary practice, which is rooted in profound perception, curiosity, and, above all, empathy. If You Remember, I’ll Remember will be on display from September 26 to December 21, 2025, with an opening reception on Friday, September 26, from 6 to 8 PM. As part of the exhibition, Robleto will be in conversation with Jennifer Roberts on Sunday, October 12, 2025, at 2 PM. On Friday, December 5, 2025, at 7 PM, there will be a screening of his 2024 film Ancient Beacons Long for Notice at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, co-presented by Art League Houston, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and Aurora Picture Show.
September 7, 2025
Ancient Beacons Long for Notice to screen
at the National Gallery of Art
Join us for a post-screening discussion with artist Dario Robleto, in person.
Robleto’s film posits: “What is our moral obligation to a full accounting of our actions—the good and bad—to not only our progeny but to the memory of humanity that is carried into an infinite cosmos and, potentially, shared with entirely different life forms?”
September 6, 2025
Conservation is a Logic of Love:
Dario Robleto in conversation at the National Gallery of Art
Please join us for a conversation on the intersection of art, conservation, and science with artist Dario Robleto, the National Gallery of Art’s chief of conservation Lena Stringari, conservator Michelle Facini, and imaging scientist John Delaney.
August 27, 2025
ARTnews
D.C.’s Museums, Under Attack by Trump, Have Never Been More United in Their Purpose
by Greg Allen
May 31, 2025
Artist-led Walkthrough: Dario Robleto on Performance on Paper
Artist Dario Robleto discusses his featured work in Performance on Paper and the exploration of music in his interdisciplinary work.
May 26, 2025
Perhaps Magazine
How Much the Heart Can Hold: The Art of Dario Robleto and the Science of Heart Transplants
By Nancy Smith
May 18, 2025
Little Beasts: Art, Wonder, and the Natural World
New film commission Until We are Forged: Hymns for the Elements debuts at the National Gallery of Art in the exhibition, Little Beasts: Art, Wonder, and the Natural World
May 18, 2025
Introduction to the Exhibition
Celebrate opening day of Little Beasts: Art, Wonder, and the Natural World with this overview by artist Dario Robleto and exhibition curators Alexandra Libby, Brooks Rich, and Stacey Sell. A signing of the exhibition catalog will follow in the East Building Concourse Shop.
May 3, 2025
Performance on Paper
Group exhibition, Performance on Paper, opens at the Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles.
Participating Artists include: Laurie Anderson, Jennie C. Jones, Ann Hamilton, Channa Horwitz, Christian Marclay, Tom Marioni, Jason Moran, Meredith Monk, Julia Phillips, Dario Robleto, Allen Ruppersberg, and Kandis Williams.
May 1, 2025
Ancient Beacons Long for Notice
Join us for a screening of artist Dario Robleto’s film Ancient Beacons Long for Notice, followed by a conversation between Robleto and collaborator Jennifer Roberts.
April 29, 2025
Dario Robleto Awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Middlebury College
Middlebury awarded honorary degrees to Heather McGhee and Dario Robleto. Robleto is an American artist, researcher, writer, and filmmaker whose work cultivates rigorous, mutually transformative interactions between the arts, humanities, and sciences.
March 31, 2025
Dario Robleto selected as the 2025 Texas Artist of the Year by Art League, Houston
Since 1983, Art League Houston (ALH) has been a leader in celebrating contemporary art in Texas through its annual awards program. In 2025, ALH is proud to honor two exceptional individuals whose impact has shaped both the cultural and philanthropic fabric of our state: Dario Robleto as the 2025 Texas Artist of the Year, and Leah Bennett as the recipient of the 2025 Texas Patron of the Year award.
March 26, 2025
Group exhibition, Énormément bizarre: The Jean Chatelus collection, donated by the Antoine de Galbert foundation, opens at Centre Pompidou‘Énormément bizarre’ (Enormously Bizarre) is an exhibition which offers a glimpse into the obsessions of a visionary collector. As a tribute to this extraordinary vision and to showcase the uniqueness of this 20th-century cabinet of curiosities, the exhibition aims to display virtually the entire donation using a ‘free association’ approach rather than following a timeline.
Participating artists include: Cindy Sherman, Christian Boltanski, Michel Journiac, Nam June Paik, Wim Delvoye, Mike Kelley, and Dario Robleto.
February 22, 2025
Dario Robleto: The Signal – A Lecture by the Artist
Dario Robleto: The Signal features the artist’s feature-length film Ancient Beacons Long for Notice (2024) and a selection of artworks that relate to his dazzlingly inventive mining of the history of science and technology. The film will be continuously projected in an enclosed space in the McCormick Gallery and will be shown alongside a selection of artworks.
January 3, 2025
The Santa Barbara Independent
Dario Robleto’s Film and Exhibition at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art Deftly Straddle Time and Space, Art and Science.
By Josef Woodard
November 15, 2024
Small Crafts on Sisyphean Seas installed in Dutch Galleries at the National Gallery of Art
Marvel at a new addition to our collection—Dario Robleto’s Small Crafts on Sisyphean Seas. The large glass case contains objects of wonder. Robleto combined sparkling synthetic materials and natural objects like seashells and butterfly wings to create forms that suggest plants and animals.
October 24, 2024
“The Art Piece that Wanders in Space”: A conversation with Dario Robleto
By Yuhan Zhang
If you were to send a message into the great expanse of the universe, what would it be? Artist, writer and filmmaker Dario Robleto seeks to expand on this question in his film, “Ancient Beacons Long for Notice” which is currently on display in the exhibion An Invitation to Awe at the Middlebury College Museum of Art.
October 7, 2024
"I’ve just seen a 21st-century artistic masterpiece"
by Sebastian Smee
A new film by Dario Robleto, on view in Fort Worth, unites art and astronomy to jaw-dropping effect.
