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April 23 to May 23, 2023

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Special Event

Hudson Valley Free Day

Sunday, April 30, 2023, 10 am–5 pm
Dia Beacon

Event DetailsSunday, April 30, 2023, 10 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.

Special Event

20th Anniversary Community Day

Saturday, May 13, 2023, 10 am–5 pm
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Event DetailsSaturday, May 13, 2023, 10 am–5 pm Dia BeaconRiggio Galleries3 Beekman StreetBeacon, New York Admission to the museum and all activities is free. Visit here to reserve tickets. Join us to celebrate Dia Beacon’s 20th Anniversary with a variety of programming in the gallery spaces, outdoors, and in the Learning Lab. View the full program below. All DayFood trucksPicnic areaBeacon Historical Society presentation Learning Lab* 10:30–11:15 am Family tourStarts outside in the forecourt 11 am–12 pm Art-making workshop with Common Ground FarmFront lawn 11:30 am–12:30 pm Museum tour 12–12:30 pmDirector’s remarks with Jessica Morgan, Nathalie de Gunzburg Director; Leonard Riggio, Chair Emeritus; City of Beacon Mayor Lee Kyriacou; and Assemblymember Jonathan JacobsonKnoebel gallery 1–2 pm Museum tour led in Spanish with Humberto Moro, Deputy Director of ProgramStarts outside in the forecourt 1–2:30 pm Zine-making workshopSerra mezzanine 2–3 pmMuseum tour 2–3 pm Film screening and conversation with Linda Goode Bryant and Laura Poitras, moderated by Donna De SalvoLearning Lab* 3–4:30 pm Happy hour with Newburgh Brewing Company, Two Way Brewery, and Homespun FoodsFront lawn *The Learning Lab is on the lower level. Stairs are located between the Palermo and Ryman galleries. For elevator access, please ask a staff member for assistance.

Dia Talks

Film and Conversation with Linda Goode Bryant and Laura Poitras

Saturday, May 13, 2023, 2 pm
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This program is part of Dia Beacon's 20th Anniversary Community Day. Admission to the museum and all activities is free. Visit here to reserve tickets. Artist Linda Goode Bryant and filmmaker Laura Poitras will present footage of their 2003 trip to Beacon, New York, to explore an empty Nabisco box printing factory that would later become Dia Beacon. After the screening, they will discuss their collaborations over the years in a conversation moderated by Donna De Salvo, senior adjunct curator. The event will be held in the Learning Lab on the museum’s lower level. Linda Goode Bryant is an artist and filmmaker, and the founder and president of Project EATS, a living installation transforming vacant lots and rooftops into neighborhood-based farms, with the goals of catalyzing creativity and cultivating greater food sovereignty across New York City. She also founded Just Above Midtown gallery, a laboratory that, from 1974 to 1986, foregrounded the work of African-American artists. She won a Peabody Award for the film Flag Wars (2003) and, in 2020, received an Anonymous Was a Woman Award and a United States Artists Berresford Prize. She is a former Guggenheim Fellow. In 2021, Bryant collaborated with architect Liz Diller to create the installation Are We Really That Different for the exhibition Social Works at Gagosian Gallery, New York. In 2022, she was lead faculty for the RAW Académie Session 9 and related exhibition, in collaboration with the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), Philadelphia. She collaborated with curator Thomas J. Lax and curatorial assistant Lilia Rocio Taboada in organizing the exhibition Just Above Midtown: Changing Spaces (2022–23) at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Laura Poitras is a filmmaker and journalist. Her most recent film, All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (2022), premiered at the Venice Film Festival, where it won the Golden Lion for best film, only the second documentary to win the top prize. The film was also nominated for an Academy Award. Her film CITIZENFOUR (2014) won an Academy Award for best documentary and her journalism exposing the U.S. National Security Agency’s global mass surveillance programs was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for public service. The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, commissioned her first solo exhibition, Astro Noise (2016), which consisted of film and other elements that created an immersive environment. The exhibition was curated by Jay Sanders and commissioned under the leadership of Donna De Salvo, then chief curator and deputy director for programs at the Whitney. In response to Poitras’s post-9/11 reporting, the U.S. government placed her on a terrorist watchlist and interrogated her dozens of times at the U.S. border. In 2015, she successfully sued the government and obtained her classified FBI files. The hundreds of heavily redacted documents reveal that the FBI conducted physical and digital surveillance of her, sent FBI agents to her film screenings, subpoenaed her private communications, and conducted a classified counterintelligence investigation. Despite her watchlist status, Poitras has received recognition for her work, including a MacArthur Fellowship.

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