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November 13 to December 13, 2017

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Member Holiday Shopping Days

Friday, November 24, 2017
Dia Beacon

Through December 4, 2017, members receive a 30% discount on all Dia publications and a 20% discount on other items purchased online or at the Dia:Beacon bookshop. Gift memberships are also 10% off and include a complimentary Dia journal. Exclusions apply. Gift memberships must be purchased either over the phone at 212 293 5602 or in person at Dia:Beacon or Dia:Chelsea to receive this special rate. Not valid online.

Poetry Reading

Jen Bervin and Bernadette Mayer

Tuesday, November 14, 2017, 6:30 pm
Dia Chelsea

Readings in Contemporary Poetry

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Event DetailsTuesday, November 14, 2017, 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 tickets are no longer available. Walk up tickets will be sold based on availability. Jen Bervin is a visual artist and poet whose research-driven interdisciplinary works weave together art, scholarship, text, textiles, science, and life. She has published ten books including The Gorgeous Nothings: Emily Dickinson’s Envelope Poems (2013) with Marta Werner and Silk Poems (2017), a poem written nanoscale in the form of a silk biosensor with Tufts University’s silk lab. Bervin is the recipient of numerous awards and honors, including the Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities residency at Northwestern University, the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation residency, an Asian Cultural Council fellowship, and a Creative Capital grant. Her work has been exhibited at venues such as the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art in North Adams, Power Plant in Toronto, and the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum in East Lansing, Michigan, and can also be found in more than thirty international collections. from Silk Poems, Research Sampler A “book” of silk is a measure forty feet long, annotatedon the selvage of ancient cloth. Other measuresof silk include ells and aunes, mommies andpiculs. The earliest human function of silk fabrics was wrappingchildren’s bodies in the tomb. Inventory: a bundleof bright silk yarn thirty feet long in her hand.A billion-foot-long silk yarn for climbing to heaven. Bernadette Mayer is the author of over twenty-seven collections of poetry including most recently Works and Days (2016), Eating the Colors of a Lineup of Words: The Early Books of Bernadette Mayer (2015), and The Helens of Troy (2013), as well as countless chapbooks and artist books. She has received grants from Creative Capital, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Guggenheim Foundation, and National Endowment for the Arts. She is also the recipient of a 2014 Shelley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America. From 1980 to 1984, she served as the director of the St. Mark’s Poetry Project, and has also edited and founded 0 to 9 journal and United Artists books and magazines. She has taught at the New School in New York City, Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado, Long Island University, College of Saint Rose in Albany, and Miami University. Living in Tents of Farinaceous Grain This year I’ve pitched a polenta tentthe tentpoles reinforced artichoke spaghettiI eat oatmeal, then run barefootdown to the widened kinderhook to seeif the blue heron will answer my whistle It’s raining so hard my ponchodoesn’t protect me adequately so like a whizkidI visualize, then drink the iced-coffee creekWhere, in the wink of an eye, I drown Rising from the dead I joineveryone else who did that & we sing dear fucking sun I aim to shine / on all sentient beings like youexcept those who own private property, amen

Dia Talks

Daniel Joseph Martinez on Joseph Beuys

Tuesday, November 28, 2017, 6:30 pm
Dia Chelsea

Artists on Artists Lecture Series

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Event DetailsTuesday, November 28, 2017, 6:30 pm Dia:Chelsea535 West 22nd Street, 5th FloorNew York City 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. Daniel Joseph Martinez was born in Los Angeles in 1957. His work has recently been included in exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit and Jewish Museum in New York (both 2016), and the Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA exhibition, Home—So Different, So Appealing, at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (2017). His work has also been included in several international biennials, including the International Cairo Biennial (2016), SITE Santa Fe Biennial (2014), Istanbul Biennial (2011), Berlin Biennial (2010), Whitney Biennial in New York (2008), and Moscow Biennial of Contemporary Art (2007). Committed to alternative arts spaces, Martinez cofounded Deep River (1997–2002) and LA x Art (2005– ) in Los Angeles. He lives and works in Los Angeles.

Dia Talks

Lucy Raven with Deantoni Parks
on Walter De Maria

Tuesday, December 12, 2017, 6:30 pm
Dia Chelsea

Artists on Artists Lecture Series

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Event DetailsTuesday, December 12, 2017, 6:30 pm Dia:Chelsea535 West 22nd Street, 5th FloorNew York City Free for Dia members; $10 general admission; $6 admission for students and seniors Advance tickets are no longer available. Walk up tickets will be sold based on availability.Lucy Raven was born in Tucson, Arizona, in 1977. Recent solo exhibitions have occurred at the Serpentine Galleries in London (2016), Columbus Museum of Art in Ohio (2016), Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center in Troy, New York (2015), Portikus in Frankfurt (2014), and the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles (2012). Raven’s work was also included in the Montreal Biennial in 2016. She currently lives and works in New York City. Deantoni Parks was born in Newnan, Georgia, in 1977. He is a founding member of the band KUDU, as well as the duo We Are Dark Angels with musician Nicci Kasper. He is also known for collaborating with John Cale and performing with the Mars Volta and the Bosnian Rainbows. His acclaimed solo album Technoself was released in 2015. He has also taught at the Stanford Jazz Workshop in California and Berklee College of Music in Boston.

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