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Member Shopping Days

Friday, November 24–Sunday, December 31, 2023
Dia Beacon and Dia Chelsea

Give the gift of Dia this season. From November 24 through December 31, save 10% on memberships and receive a complimentary Dia tote. To redeem online, use the code GIFTDIA when purchasing your membership. Also through December 31, members enjoy a 30% discount on all Dia publications and a 20% discount on other items purchased at our Dia Beacon and Dia Chelsea bookshops, or online with a code available to current members. Exclusions apply and discounts cannot be combined. Complimentary totes will be sent by mail. For more information, please contact 212 293 5520 or membership@diaart.org.

Learning Program

Saturday Studio at Dia Beacon

Saturday, December 9, 2023, 10:30 am–12 pm
Dia Beacon

Saturday Studio

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Event detailsSaturday, December 9, 202310:30 am–12 pm Dia Beacon Learning Lab3 Beekman StreetBeacon, New York Free. Spaces are limited; register for the event here. Join a practicing artist for a workshop of art-making, material experimentation, and play at Dia Beacon. Designed for all ages, Saturday Studio is a family-friendly program that is most suitable for children ages five and up. Saturday Studio begins promptly at 10:30 am at Dia Beacon. Registrations opens on Friday, December 1, at 9 am. For more information, please contact learning@diaart.org.

Dia Talks

Blind Dates Recursive 02

Saturday, December 9, 2023, 2–3 pm
Dia Beacon

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Event detailsSaturday, December 9, 20232–3 pm Dia Beacon3 Beekman StreetBeacon, New York Included with museum admission, registration is recommended. Blind Dates Recursive 02 Question: Where to facilitate energy to give life?Facilitated by Darling Green Darling Green is a collaborative curatorial practice. The studio combines art collection and exhibition development with an open dialogue on the potentials of the exhibition form, privileging process over predetermined frameworks. Darling Green also hosts Telephone Telephone, a regular meeting to discuss the meanings, uses, and methodologies of the exhibition form. Part seminar, part reading group, and part gathering of co-conspirators, it is a self-organizing experiment in dialogue and cooperative discovery. About the program series Blind Dates Recursive is a series of participatory public conversations held at Dia Beacon in conjunction with Rita McBride: Arena Momentum (on view through January 2025). These engagements take place on McBride’s Arena (1997), a modularly structured tribune that is activated by the presence of audiences and performers alike. Inspired by the artist’s decision to make the digital design files of Arena freely available through a copyleft license, which allows for the public to access and reinterpret the work, Blind Dates Recursive provides an ongoing, open forum to consider and enact the shifting nature of authorship. Each month, an invited facilitator poses a question and draws on their unique field of expertise to act as an instigator, listener, and moderator of the responses and conversation. Participants are encouraged to think out loud and in dialogue with each other during the hour-long session, at the end of which the facilitator will guide the group to collectively form a new question. The new question will be posed at the next session by a new facilitator. In this way, like a game of Telephone, Blind Dates Recursive generates iterative gatherings and an evolving public dialogue over the course of the exhibition. The public is encouraged to participate on a recurring basis. Blind Dates Recursive 03Saturday, February 3, 2024, 2–3 pm Blind Dates Recursive 04Saturday, March 9, 2024, 2–3 pm Blind Dates Recursive 05Saturday, April 13, 2024, 2–3 pm More information on the full program series is available here.

Learning Program

Play Sets: stanley brouwn

Saturday, December 16, 2023, 10:30 am
Dia Beacon

Play Sets

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Event detailsSaturday, December 16, 202310:30–11:15 am Dia Beacon3 Beekman StreetBeacon, New York Free. Spaces are limited and offered on a first-come, first-served basis. Explore the galleries through in-depth engagements with a single artist or artwork. Each program includes hands-on exercises that invite participants to see, think, and imagine in new ways. On December 16, Dia educators will focus on the work of stanley brouwn. Recommended for families with children ages five and up. All families participating in the Play Sets program receive free admission to Dia Beacon for the day. For more information, please contact learning@diaart.org.

Learning Program

Amasar y endulzar la tierra:
A kneading-lecture with Juliana Steiner

Saturday, December 16, 2023, 1–2:30 pm or 3:30–5 pm
Dia Chelsea

Soil Sessions

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Event detailsSaturday, December 16, 20231–2:30 pm or 3:30–5 pm Dia Chelsea537 West 22nd StreetNew York, New York Free. Spaces are limited; register for the 1 pm program here or the 3:30 pm program here. In conjunction with Delcy Morelos: El abrazo, Dia presents Soil Sessions, an iterative series of interdisciplinary activations, poetic responses to, discursive reflections on, and embodied engagements with the earth as subject and material in Morelos’s work. These public programs, presented throughout the run of the exhibition, invite sustained engagement with the commission through a variety of lenses. During each session, curator and researcher Juliana Steiner will guide participants through the making of sweetened “soil cookies” as offerings of gratitude to the earth. Created in conversation with the artist, Steiner will discuss the recipe and the ingredients’ important properties, and how Morelos has integrated notions of offerings into current and past projects. Participants will be asked to use organic materials during the program. If you have questions or concerns about allergies, please contact info@diaart.org. Juliana Steiner is an independent curator and researcher from Bogotá, Colombia. She is interested in interdisciplinary practices in contemporary art that incorporate social sciences, pedagogy, architecture, and long-term projects with communities. Her research focuses on more-than-human species, environmental justice, and the transformations of landscapes. She curated Ecotone: Chagras, Payaos, Camellones in Colombia, one of the three international Network Projects included in Common Ground, the 2022–23 edition of the Fisher Center LAB Biennial at Bard College, Annandale-On-Hudson. As a member of entre—ríos, a “confluence of projects that explores continuities between bodies of water and human bodies,” Steiner has worked on the upper basin of the Bogotá River, rethinking this body of water as a subject that transforms landscapes and shapes memory. She is the co-founder and artistic director of La Reserva Guatoc, a multidisciplinary residency in Barichara, Colombia, that seeks to create critical thinking through experimental forms in a cross-territorial dialogue between Latin America and the Caribbean. She has also co-founded Espacio Odeón, a contemporary arts center housed in an abandoned landmark movie theater in Bogotá’s city center. She holds a BFA in Visual Arts and a BA in Business Management from Universidad de Los Andes, Bogotá, and an MA in Arts Administration from New York University. Steiner has taught as an adjunct professor at the Universidad de Los Andes School of Architecture and is currently a Fellow at the Center for Human Rights and the Arts at Bard College. To knead and to sweeten the earth / Amasar y endulzar la tierra The earth, mystery, womb, origin, life, and food.We receive without thanking, in oblivion and ignorance; we cut, destroy, damage mother matter.The invitation: To sow the intention of protecting earth and all its manifestations of life.The result: The harvest of this intention will be cookies of fertilized earth, carriers of seeds (life).The activity: Knead the earth and moisten it with water, caress it with your hands, soften it and sprinkle it with honey and with offering. Perfume it with gratitude and memory, also add cloves, cinnamon. Finally, the cookie will be fertilized with the seed of life (the secret touch).The earth heals and transforms the living in different ways: it will be a seed, it will be a plant, it will be a flower, it will be pollen, it will be food, it will be a memory, it will be the spoken word. We embody all these forms of life. La tierra, misterio, útero, origen, vida y alimento. Recibimos sin agradecer, en el olvido y la ignorancia; cortamos, destruimos, dañamos la madre materia. La invitación: Sembrar la intención de proteger la tierra y todas sus manifestaciones de vida.El resultado: La cosecha de esta intención será galletas de tierra fertilizada, portadoras de semillas (vida). Actividad: Amasar la tierra y humedecerla con agua, acariciarla con las manos, ablandarla y rociarla con miel y con ofrenda. Perfumarla con agradecimiento y memoria, también agregar clavos, canela. Por último, la galleta se fertilizará con la semilla de vida (el toque secreto). La tierra sana y transforma lo vivo de diferentes maneras: será semilla, será planta, será flor, será polen, será alimento, será recuerdo, será palabra. Encarnamos todas estas formas de vida. —Delcy Morelos and / y Juliana Steiner

Learning Program

Play Sets: Michael Heizer, Negative Megalith

Saturday, December 23, 2023, 10:30 am
Dia Beacon

Play Sets

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Event detailsSaturday, December 23, 202310:30–11:15 am Dia Beacon3 Beekman StreetBeacon, New York Free. Spaces are limited and offered on a first-come, first-served basis. Explore the galleries through in-depth engagements with a single artist or artwork. Each program includes hands-on exercises that invite participants to see, think, and imagine in new ways. On December 23, Dia educators will focus on the work of Michael Heizer, Negative Megalith. Recommended for families with children ages five and up. All families participating in the Play Sets program receive free admission to Dia Beacon for the day. For more information, please contact learning@diaart.org.

Tour

Public Tour of
Delcy Morelos: El abrazo

Saturday, December 30, 2023, 12:30 pm
Dia Chelsea

Soil Sessions

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Event detailsSaturday, December 30, 202312:30 pm Dia Chelsea 537 West 22nd StreetNew York, New York Free. Reservations suggested but not required. Join a free, artist-led tour of Delcy Morelos’s exhibition—the artist’s first solo presentation in the United States. Tours are approximately 30 minutes long. Advance reservations are required for all adult and student groups visiting Dia Chelsea. For more information, please contact grouptours@diaart.org.

Learning Program

Play Sets: Blinky Palermo

Saturday, December 30, 2023, 10:30 am
Dia Beacon

Play Sets

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Event detailsSaturday, December 30, 202310:30–11:15 am Dia Beacon3 Beekman StreetBeacon, New York Free. Spaces are limited and offered on a first-come, first-served basis. Explore the galleries through in-depth engagements with a single artist or artwork. Each program includes hands-on exercises that invite participants to see, think, and imagine in new ways. On December 30, Dia educators will focus on the work of Blinky Palermo. Recommended for families with children ages five and up. All families participating in the Play Sets program receive free admission to Dia Beacon for the day. For more information, please contact learning@diaart.org.

Special Event

Hudson Valley Free Day

Sunday, December 31, 2023, 10 am–4 pm
Dia Beacon

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Event detailsSunday, December 31, 2023, 10 am–4 pm Dia Beacon3 BeekmanBeacon, New York Hudson Valley residents receive free admission to Dia Beacon on the last Sunday of each month. The Hudson Valley encompasses the following counties: Albany, Columbia, Dutchess, Greene, Orange, Putnam, Rensselaer, Rockland, Saratoga, Schenectady, Sullivan, Ulster, Washington, and Westchester. To get tickets for Hudson Valley Free Day please fill out our Free Admission Request. Hudson Valley Free Days at Dia Beacon are made possible by Charlie Pohlad.

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