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September 20 to October 20, 2018

Performance

Joëlle Tuerlinckx: THAT'S IT!


Dia Beacon

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24/09/2018 00:00 24/09/2018 23:45 America/New_York Joëlle Tuerlinckx: THAT'S IT! Event DetailsSeptember 24–30, 2018 Dia:Beacon 3 Beekman StreetBeacon, New York The events will take place throughout each day in and around the museum, with intermittent pauses. Admission is free with the purchase of a museum ticket.Reservations are required on closed museum days: Tuesday, September 25, and Wednesday, September 26. Reservations are also available at the door, subject to availability. ScheduleMonday, September 2411 am–6 pm Tuesday, September 251:30–4 pm (closed museum day; reservations required here) Wednesday, September 261:30–4 pm (closed museum day; reservations required here) Thursday, September 2711 am–6 pm Friday, September 2811 am–6 pm Saturday, September 2911 am–5 pm Sunday, September 3011 am–6 pm On Sunday, September 30, between 12:30–2:30 pm, the performers will be offsite taking part in the “Spirit of Beacon" parade taking place on Main Street, Beacon. Performances will take place at Dia:Beacon from 11 am–12 pm, and 2:30–6 pm.     Dia Beacon FALSE DD/MM/YYYY FREQ=DAILY; Joëlle Tuerlinckx: THAT'S IT!

Members’ Event

Annual Open House


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20/09/2018 18:30 20/09/2018 23:45 America/New_York Annual Open House Event DetailsThursday, September 20, 6:30–8 pmFor all members. Join or renew today.  The New York Earth Room (1977)141 Wooster Street, New York City The Broken Kilometer (1979)393 West Broadway, New York City Join us for the opening of the fall season of Walter De Maria’s long-term installations in New York City: The New York Earth Room and The Broken Kilometer. Both works will be on view for guests to visit during the evening, and refreshments will be served at the Dia apartment adjacent to The New York Earth Room.      FALSE DD/MM/YYYY Annual Open House

Poetry Reading

Rodney Koeneke and Fred Moten


Dia Chelsea

Readings in Contemporary Poetry

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25/09/2018 18:30 25/09/2018 00:00 America/New_York Rodney Koeneke and Fred Moten Event DetailsTuesday, September 25, 2018, 6:30 pmDia:Chelsea535 West 22nd Street, 5th FloorNew York City  Readings in Contemporary Poetry curator, Vincent Katz provided an introduction for the evening's reading. Free for Dia members; $10 general admission; $6 admission for students and seniors  This event has reached capacity. Advance reservations are no longer available. Walk-up tickets will be available at the door, subject to availability. Rodney Koeneke’s most recent book of poems, Body & Glass, was published by Wave Books in 2018. Other collections include Etruria (Wave Books, 2014), Musee Mechanique (BlazeVOX, 2006), and Rouge State (Pavement Saw Press, 2003). His work has appeared in the Brooklyn Rail, Fence, Granta, Harper’s, Harriet, Nation, Poetry, Zyzzyva, and elsewhere. An early member of the Flarf collective, he was active in the San Francisco Bay Area poetry scene until he moved in 2006 to Portland, Oregon, where he teaches in the history department at Portland State University. bercuse Adherent of storms and untimely weather, how you sleep where ashes are blowing. I bring my small light that kids use for comfort, pull up the ratty quilts until what isn’t closer doesn’t matter—night the executrix appoints, deletes patricians telling parents Rome is burning but is that right, blue satellite? Fred Moten teaches in the department of performance studies at New York University. His most recent work is the trilogy consent not to be a single being, which was published by Duke University Press in 2017–18. He and Stefano Harney are authors of All Incomplete, forthcoming next year from Minor Compositions/Autonomedia. In 2018 Moten received the Roy Lichtenstein Award from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts and was named a United States Artists Writing Fellow. (an illuminated etymology) from come on, get it! group (n.)1690s, originally an art criticism term, "assemblage of figures or objects forming a harmonious whole in a painting or design," from French groupe "cluster, group" (17c.), from Italian gruppo"group, knot," which probably is, with Spanish grupo, from a Germanic source, from Proto-Germanic *kruppaz"round mass, lump, with an awkward dangling of sticks, a brutal angling of brushes," part of the general group of Germanic kr-words with the sense “rounded mass" (such as crop (n.), the roundness burred, vibed, pleated with ascots, bitter, like a sheaf of rabe or a rubbed rawness of the general sheaf. Extended to "any assemblage, a number of individuals related in some way" by 1736. Meaning "pop music combo" is from 1958 and numberless, neverones, a one and a two and a bridge. Round ass lump or lumpen is from 1976. Lumpen from lumen, or inside lip, a unit of luminous flux trilled in superfluid kisses, from an influenza of switches (such as crew (adv.). A broken way people be turning and sharply butterflying.     Dia Chelsea FALSE DD/MM/YYYY Rodney Koeneke and Fred Moten

Members’ Event

Reception with Joëlle Tuerlinckx


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29/09/2018 17:00 29/09/2018 23:45 America/New_York Reception with Joëlle Tuerlinckx Event DetailsSaturday, September 29, 5–6 pmFor Supporter members and above. Join or renew today.  Dia:Beacon3 Beekman StreetBeacon, New York  Celebrate Joëlle Tuerlinckx’s first live commission in the United States: THAT’S IT!. Taking place over the course of one week, THAT’S IT! will feature different events each day that respond to Dia’s collection and the architecture of Dia:Beacon. Join the artist for an outdoor reception after the Saturday performance. RSVP to membership@diaart.org     Dia Beacon FALSE DD/MM/YYYY Reception with Joëlle Tuerlinckx

Poetry Reading

Paul Muldoon and Susan Wheeler


Dia Chelsea

Readings in Contemporary Poetry

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02/10/2018 16:30 02/10/2018 00:00 America/New_York Paul Muldoon and Susan Wheeler Event DetailsTuesday, October 2, 2018, 6:30 pmDia:Chelsea535 West 22nd Street, 5th FloorNew York City  Readings in Contemporary Poetry curator, Vincent Katz provided an introduction for the evening's reading. Free for Dia members; $10 general admission; $6 admission for students and seniors Advance ticket purchases recommended. Tickets are also available for purchase at the door, subject to availability.  Paul Muldoon was born in 1951 in County Armagh, Northern Ireland, and educated in Armagh and at the Queen’s University Belfast. Muldoon’s recent collections of poetry include Poems 1968–2014 (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016), One Thousand Things Worth Knowing (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015), and Maggot (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010). Between 1999 and 2004 he was Professor of Poetry at the University of Oxford, where he is an honorary fellow of Hertford College. From 2007 to 2017 he served as the New Yorker’s poetry editor. Muldoon is currently Howard G. B. Clark ’21 University Professor in the Humanities, Director of the Princeton Atelier, and Professor of Creative Writing at Princeton University in New Jersey. AT TUAM Among the hundreds of children who stare up at us from their                                                                    septic tank is James Muldoon, who died in 1927at the age of four months. At least he would never be forced to                                                                            thankthe Lord for mercies large or small. That cry to high heavenmust come from Brendan Muldoon, who died in 1943at a mere five weeks. A teenage nun bows before an unleavenedhost held up by a priest like a moon held up by an ash tree.In 1947 the eleven month old Bridget Muldoon, a namesake of                                                             the mother who would shortly give birth to me,has already distinguished herself as being a bit of a bother  while Dermott Muldoon, three months old in 1950, is about to                                                            join the ranksof my foster-sisters and foster-brothers in that unthinkable world where a wasp may recognize another                                                              wasp’s faceand an elephant grieve for an elephant down at the watering                                                               place. Susan Wheeler is the author of a novel, Record Palace (Graywolf Press, 2005), and six books of poetry. In 2012 her volume of poetry Meme (University of Iowa Press, 2012) was shortlisted for the National Book Award. Her awards include the Witter Bynner Prize for Poetry from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Norma Farber First Book Award from the Poetry Society of America, and fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation and the New York Foundation for the Arts. Her work has appeared in ten editions of Best American Poetry as well as in New American Writing, New Yorker, Paris Review, Talisman, and many other journals. She teaches at Princeton University in New Jersey. Grieved The Death You Therefore Bring Us Is Your Own                                                                                      after Mark Lombardi into the drive osmium is sovereign not that tantalum has been liberated under ytterbium’s verification and once the stabilization board moves the protactinium zarqawi without rubidium bringing the suiciders to kill women in lanthanum deep in the lanthanum and trailing our militaries like allawi like it is sovereign but before the mendelevium the thulium the erbium and gilded sofa to foil the timing had taken hold the forces in formal sovereignty green zoned among the poloniums the retracted uuo and ununnilium hassan and hassium antinomy to bismuth and brotherly behavior hold those forces in their glory              manilus                                                                                                                                                                       harithas                syracuse                             little rock                                    houston                                 noose                                           veritas dress down o molybdenum and hafnium whip up screens and suiciders as dysprosium militarieshas said publicly cut head off cut someone’s you just can’t o mercury o tin ununquadium gravesin hilla the ambassador his contractor the ambassador her lutetium and now they reign rain down the rhodium with nails and forceful despots underlaying our most specious coalition integuments the corpses of ruthenium down in fallujah down with the smallest stricken hand no head rolls unto its manganese where weeps a rebuilt school young teacher cloaked the allah either gold or lead             dust                                         uncuts                          off negraponte                                                                                         ricciardone           cobalt                            copper                          rope      Dia Chelsea FALSE DD/MM/YYYY Paul Muldoon and Susan Wheeler

Dia Talks

Bonnie Baxter and Jaimi Butler on Robert Smithson


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06/10/2018 14:00 06/10/2018 23:45 America/New_York Bonnie Baxter and Jaimi Butler on Robert Smithson Event DetailsSaturday, October 6, 2018, 2 pm Dia:Beacon3 Beekman StreetBeacon, New York Free with museum admission. No reservations required. Bonnie Baxter is director of the Great Salt Lake Institute and professor of biology at Westminster College in Salt Lake City, where she studies photobiology of halophiles (salt-tolerant bacteria) and microbial diversity of Great Salt Lake. She is interested in the astrobiology applications of extremely hypersaline ecosystems, particularly the resistance to ultraviolet light and desiccation by halophiles. Baxter is also dedicated to integration of research in undergraduate science education and to outreach efforts that inspire learning and stewardship. She obtained her PhD in genetics at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and completed her postdoctoral research in the department of biochemistry and biophysics at Washington State University in Pullman. Jaimi Butler is coordinator at Great Salt Lake Institute in Salt Lake City, where she organizes all activities, develops outreach efforts, mentors students, and designs research projects. She studied Great Salt Lake ecology while an undergraduate student in wildlife biology at Utah State University, and graduated with a fisheries and wildlife degree in 1999. As a professional, she worked for a brine shrimp harvest company before joining the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources’ Great Salt Lake Ecosystem Program. Butler assists many of the faculty projects at Great Salt Lake Institute, aiding in lake sample collection, boat access, and field trip resources.     Dia Beacon FALSE DD/MM/YYYY Bonnie Baxter and Jaimi Butler on Robert Smithson

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Mary Corse: A Symposium


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12/10/2018 13:00 12/10/2018 23:45 America/New_York Mary Corse: A Symposium Event DetailsFriday, October 12, 2018, 1–5:30 pm Whitney Museum of American ArtSusan and John Hess Family Gallery and TheaterNew York City This symposium brings together artists, curators, and scholars to discuss Mary Corse’s work and her innovative engagements with the medium of painting. Topics to be considered include: materials and luminosity, contingency and vision, and new perspectives on artistic practices of the 1960s and 1970s. The program is co-organized by Dia Art Foundation and the Whitney Museum of American Art, and is planned in conjunction with the concurrent presentations of Corse’s work. Free; registration required. To register, visit www.whitney.org/events/mary-corse-symposium. The Susan and John Hess Family Theater is equipped with an induction loop and infrared assistive listening system. Accessible seating is available. For more information about access services and amenities at the Whitney, visit www.whitney.org/visit/access. ScheduleSession 1: Paint and Painting1–2:15 pm     Peter Halley, artistSuzanne Hudson, associate professor of modern and contemporary art at the University of Southern CaliforniaJeffrey Weiss, independent author, curator, and scholarModerated by Kim Conaty, Steven and Ann Ames Curator of Drawings and Prints at the Whitney Museum of American Art Session 2: Considering the 1960s2:30–3:45 pm Robin Clark, director of the Artist Initiative at the San Francisco Museum of Modern ArtElizabeth Gollnick, art historian and writerJane Livingston, independent author, curator, and scholarModerated by Carol Eliel, curator of modern art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art  Session 3: Light and Seeing4–5:15 pm Francesca Esmay, conservator of the Panza Collection at the Solomon R. Guggenheim MuseumJames Welling, artistHank Willis Thomas, artistModerated by Alexis Lowry, associate curator at Dia Art Foundation Reception5:30 pm     FALSE DD/MM/YYYY Mary Corse: A Symposium

Learning Program

Saturday Studio


Dia Beacon

Saturday Studio

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13/10/2018 10:30 13/10/2018 12:00 America/New_York Saturday Studio Event DetailsSaturday, October 13, 2018, 10:30 am–12 pm Dia:Beacon3 Beekman StreetBeacon, New York Join practicing artists for a free monthly workshop of art making and play in the Learning Lab at Dia:Beacon. Designed for all ages, Saturday Studio is a  family friendly program that is most suitable for children ages 5 and up. All families participating in the Saturday Studio program receive free admission to Dia:Beacon for the day. Saturday Studio begins promptly at 10:30 am on the second Saturday of every month. The sign-up process begins in the admissions area at 10 am. Reservations are not required. For more information about the Saturday Studio artist educators and workshops, see the calendar of upcoming events or e-mail beaconprogram@diaart.org.     Dia Beacon FALSE DD/MM/YYYY Saturday Studio

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