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Dia Talks

Alan Michelson on Robert Smithson

Wednesday, October 16, 2024, 6:30 pm
Dia Chelsea

Event details Wednesday, October 16, 2024 6:30 pm Dia Chelsea 537 West 22nd Street New York, New York Free. Spaces are limited; register for the event here. Alan Michelson was born in Buffalo in 1953. A Mohawk member of Six Nations of the Grand River, Michelson works in a range of media and with materials sourced from both indigenous and Western cultures to create site-specific works that draw on repressed histories. Recent solo exhibitions include Historicity, Woodland Cultural Centre, Brantford, Ontario (2018); Wolf Nation, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2019); and Prophetstown, Thomas Cole National Historic Site, Catskill, New York (2024). Recent group exhibitions include those at MoMA PS1, Queens (2021); Tate Modern, London (2022); and the 14th Gwangju Biennale, South Korea (2023). Michelson lives in New York.

Learning Program

Play Sets: Robert Smithson

Saturday, October 19, 2024, 10:30 am
Dia Beacon

Play Sets

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Event detailsSaturday, October 19, 202410:30–11:15 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 October 19, Dia educators will focus on the work of Robert Smithson. 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.

Performance

Momentum

Momentum:synthesize.r
Friday–Sunday, October 25–27, 2024, 12 pm
Dia Beacon

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Event detailsFriday–Sunday, October 25–27, 202412 pm Dia Beacon 3 Beekman StreetBeacon, New York Free with museum admission. If you would like to view a livestream of the performance, RSVP here. For the duration of Rita McBride: Arena Momentum at Dia Beacon, an expanding body of artists, performers, writers, musicians, and dancers activates physical and virtual spaces as part of a series of engagements with McBride’s Arena (1997). The activations are guided by the conceptual parameters of Arena’s copyleft license (ɔ); the digital files of Arena are freely available to the public in accordance with this license. From October 25 to 27, Momentum continues with live performances by discoteca flaming star (DFS) with Michael Mahalchick. The all-encompassing multimedia performances bring together elements of sound and movement from previous Momentum engagements, while presenting live drawing taking place at Dia Beacon and streaming from DFS’s Berlin studio, simultaneously. Interspersed throughout this iteration of Momentum, subtitled Momentum:synthesize.r, are choreographic interludes developed by Alexandra Waierstall in close collaboration with dancers from around the world and performed here by Ying Yun Chen and Rachel Gill. DFS members Cristina Gómez Barrio, Sofia Lomba, Wolfgang Mayer, and Sara Pereira are joined by Wilder Alison, Peter Cramer, Urania Fasoulidou, Michael Schultze, Karolina Szymura, and Jack Waters, as well as surprise guests. Momentum was initiated by Rita McBride, choreographer Alexandra Waierstall, and the experimental performance collective DFS (founded by Cristina Gómez Barrio and Wolfgang Mayer). Please note that the Momentum performances will involve nudity. Photography in the Rita McBride: Arena Momentum galleries will not be permitted during the performances. Rita McBride was born in Des Moines and lives in Düsseldorf and California. Since the mid-1980s, she has developed a conceptual, cross-disciplinary, intermedia, and feminist approach to art-making that holds collaboration at its center.  Her artwork, Arena, was realized in 1997. Alexandra Waierstall was born in England, raised in Cyprus, and lives in Düsseldorf. Her conceptual choreographic practice attends to the relationships between time, memory, presence, and embodiment. Since 2016, she has choreographed cyclical encounters with Arena.  discoteca flaming star (DFS) is a shared interdisciplinary practice based in Berlin. Through conceptual, visual, and musical transfers, DFS creates experimental performances to challenge conventional notions pertinent to public memory. Since 1999, DFS has engaged, informed, and performed with Arena. DFS is grateful for the support of Momentum provided by Callie’s and ifa – Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen e.V. Momentum collaborators:  Amani Alquatrani Olivia Ancona Volker Bertelmann Stavros Gasparatos Randy Gibson Rachel Gill Kimberly Golding Matilde Guidelli-Guidi Judith Jaeger Scott Jennings Amy Josh Georgios Kotsifakis Sofia Lomba Alexis Lowry Michael Mahalchick Emily Markert Mollie McKinley Ioanna Paraskevopoulou Sara Pereira Evangelia Randou David Reinfurt Rosa Sarholz Christina Sickingen Courtney Smith Don Stahl Eftychia Stefanou Karolina Szymura Sara Tucker Lucia Vornhein Dan Wolfe Ying Yun Chen

Learning Program

Saturday Studio at Newburgh Farmers’ Market

Saturday, October 26, 2024, 10 am–1 pm
Offsite

Saturday Studio

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Event detailsSaturday, October 26, 202410 am–1 pm Newburgh Farmers’ Market Safe Harbors Green 97 BroadwayNewburgh, New York Free. No registration required. Join Dia artist educators at Newburgh Farmers’ Market for a drop-in art-making workshop with friends, family, and neighbors, offered in partnership with Common Ground Farm. The Newburgh Farmers’ Market’s mission is to feed and engage with the Newburgh community, support local farms and businesses, and create a more just food system. Common Ground is a nonprofit community farm that works hard to ensure food and educational access to everyone in our community. To learn more about their work, visit commongroundfarm.org. Common Ground runs on the generous support of its community. If you are able, please consider making a donation. For more information, please contact learning@diaart.org.

Learning Program

Play Sets: Gerhard Richter

Saturday, October 26, 2024, 10:30 am
Dia Beacon

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Event detailsSaturday, October 26, 202410:30–11:15 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 October 26, Dia educators will focus on the work of Gerhard Richter. 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.

Members’ Event

Curator-led Tour of Andy Warhol and Steve McQueen

Saturday, October 26, 2024, 11 am–12 pm
Dia Beacon

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Event details Saturday, October 26, 2024 11 am–12 pm Dia Beacon 3 Beekman Street Beacon, New York For all members. Join or renew today. Join us at Dia Beacon for a private walk-through of Andy Warhol’s Shadows (1978–79) and Steve McQueen’s Bass (2024), led by Donna De Salvo, Dia’s senior adjunct curator, special projects. Following the tour, guests are invited to stay for the Momentum performance taking place in the Rita McBride: Arena Momentum galleries. RSVP to Anna Richards at membership@diaart.org or 212 293 5520.

Special Event

Hudson Valley Free Day

Sunday, October 27, 2024, 10 am–5 pm
Dia Beacon

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Event detailsSunday, October 27, 202410 am–5 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.

Learning Program

Play Sets: Maren Hassinger

Sunday, October 27, 2024, 10:30 am
Dia Beacon

Play Sets

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Event detailsSunday, October 27, 202410:30–11:15 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 October 27, Dia educators will focus on the work of Maren Hassinger. 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

Play Sets: Meg Webster

Saturday, November 2, 2024, 10:30 am
Dia Beacon

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Event detailsSaturday, November 2, 202410:30–11:15 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 November 2, Dia educators will focus on the work of Meg Webster. 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.

Book Launch

Interaction: A Fred Sandback Book Launch

Wednesday, November 6, 2024, 6:30 pm
Dia Chelsea

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Event details Wednesday, November 6, 20246:30 pm Dia Chelsea537 West 22nd StreetNew York, New York Free. Spaces are limited; register here. In collaboration with the Fred Sandback Archive and Dancing Foxes Press, Dia is pleased to launch the publication Interaction: Fifty Years of Fred Sandback and Dia Art Foundation. In 1968, Fred Sandback (1943–2003) mounted his first solo exhibition at Heiner Friedrich’s Munich gallery, displaying works made from elastic cord or acrylic yarn that traced planes and volumes in space. Thus began a long-term relationship that extended to Dia Art Foundation, the institution co-founded by Friedrich in 1974. Until now, little has been published on Sandback’s extraordinary alliance with Dia. Essayists Lynne Cooke, Julian M. Rose, Corinna Thierolf, and Edward A. Vazquez, as well as conversation partners Matilde Guidelli-Guidi and Curtis Harvey, unearth and explore archival documents, sketches, and photographs to reveal how the institution offered Sandback both space and time to meticulously hone his sculptural interventions in the architectural environments of Dia, including the Fred Sandback Museum in Winchendon, Massachusetts, and Dia Beacon, New York. A conversation between three of the authors—Rose, Vazquez, and Guidelli-Guidi—takes place at Dia Chelsea’s program space, presented by Jessica Morgan, Dia’s director, and moderated by Humberto Moro, deputy director of program.

Learning Program

Saturday Studio at Dia Beacon

Saturday, November 9, 2024, 10:30 am
Dia Beacon

Saturday Studio

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Event detailsSaturday, November 9, 202410:30 am–12 pm Dia Beacon Learning Lab3 Beekman StreetBeacon, New York Free. Spaces are limited; registration opens Friday, November 1, at 9 am. 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. For more information, please contact learning@diaart.org.

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