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12/04/2021 00:00 12/04/2021 23:45 America/New_York Member Shopping Days Event DetailsMember Shopping DaysApril 12–May 16, 2021 During this time, members receive a 30% discount on all Dia publications and 20% off other items purchased online, at Dia Beacon, or at Dia Chelsea. Exclusions apply. Join, renew, or give a gift membership today.     Dia Online TURE DD/MM/YYYY FREQ=DAILY; Member Shopping Days

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Tribute to Anne Waldman


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Readings in Contemporary Poetry

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11/05/2021 18:00 11/05/2021 23:45 America/New_York Tribute to Anne Waldman Event Details Tuesday, May 11, 6 pm Live on Zoom  RSVP and receive a Zoom link here.   Dia is pleased to announce the upcoming events in its Readings in Contemporary Poetry series. This season, instead of pairing two poets for an evening, curator Vincent Katz has chosen a format that pays tribute to five exemplary poets. For each event, a small group of readers will pay homage to one of the featured poets, followed by a reading by that poet. The featured poet for this event is Anne Waldman.  The tribute readers for this event will be Emma Gomis, Patricia Spears Jones, Rachel Levitsky, and Eleni Sikelianos. Anne Waldman is a nomadic explorer of realms of language and experience. Following in the lineages, she also disrupts them by going farther afield, respectful, knowledgeable, but not content to stick to the guns inherited from her largely male predecessors, yet still knowing enough not to jettison them completely. First forays unimaginably diverse, early 20s at Berkeley Poetry Conference initiated a life in publishing, and shortly after that, presenting poetry. Waldman has always been at the core of the poetry economy, first as Director of the Poetry Project in the East Village, then as one of the founders, with Allen Ginsberg and others, of Naropa Institute, now Naropa University, in Boulder, Colorado, sharing one’s version of the lineage as prime commitment. Her poetry too has traveled, from earliest, clear-spoken, young-woman-about-town visions, already tight with cohort, to ever-shamanic investigations into far reaches of indigenous and non-human life, conscience continually calling out human responsibility for various Anthropocene crises. Her mind-expanding experiments include numerous collaborations with visual artists, musicians, including her son, Ambrose Bye, and nephew, Devin Waldman, filmmakers, including her husband, Ed Bowes, and many poets. She has been exemplary in her energy as well as her devotion, one of the few contemporary poets to have composed an epic poem, her Iovis trilogy. She is prolific as composer and performer of word and sound, activist thrusting against the negative energies of hatred and incomprehension. She is one of our great leaders, someone we need so much at this time, and for all time.  Vincent Katz, May 11, 2021 Anne Waldman grew up on MacDougal Street in Greenwich Village. Waldman is a poet, performer, professor, editor, and cultural activist. From 1966 until 1978, Waldman ran the St. Mark’s Poetry Project in New York City, and in 1974, together with Allen Ginsberg, cofounded the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado. She is the author of more than forty books and has concentrated on the long poem as a cultural intervention with such projects as Marriage: A Sentence (2000) and Structure of The World Compared to a Bubble (2004) and the anti-war feminist epic The Iovis Trilogy: Colors in the Mechanism of Concealment (2011). Anthologies that she has edited include Nice to See You: Homage to Ted Berrigan (1991), The Angel Hair Anthology (2001), Civil Disobediences (2004), and Beats at Naropa (2009). She is a recipient of numerous awards and honors, including the Poetry Society of America’s Shelley Memorial Award, and was appointed a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. Waldman is the artistic director of the summer writing program at Naropa University and divides her time between Boulder and New York.  Dia Online FALSE DD/MM/YYYY Tribute to Anne Waldman

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Gallery Talks: Robert Irwin


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13/05/2021 12:00 13/05/2021 12:30 America/New_York Gallery Talks: Robert Irwin Event DetailsThursday, May 13, 12–12:30 pmLive on Zoom RSVP and receive a Zoom link here. Join Dia educators on Thursdays at 12 pm for engaging conversations around one artist’s practice or work on view at Dia Beacon. On May 13, Dia educators will discuss the work of artist Robert Irwin. Dia Online FALSE DD/MM/YYYY Gallery Talks: Robert Irwin

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Gallery Talks: Louise Bourgeois


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20/05/2021 12:00 20/05/2021 12:30 America/New_York Gallery Talks: Louise Bourgeois Event DetailsThursday, May 20, 12–12:30 pmLive on Zoom RSVP and receive a Zoom link here. Join Dia educators on Thursdays at 12 pm for engaging conversations around one artist’s practice or work on view at Dia Beacon. On May 20, Dia educators will discuss the work of artist Louise Bourgeois. Dia Online FALSE DD/MM/YYYY Gallery Talks: Louise Bourgeois

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Gallery Talks: Robert Ryman


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27/05/2021 12:00 27/05/2021 12:30 America/New_York Gallery Talks: Robert Ryman Event DetailsThursday, May 27, 12–12:30 pmLive on Zoom RSVP and receive a Zoom link here. Join Dia educators on Thursdays at 12 pm for engaging conversations around one artist’s practice or work on view at Dia Beacon. On May 27, Dia educators will discuss the work of artist Robert Ryman. Dia Online FALSE DD/MM/YYYY Gallery Talks: Robert Ryman

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Gallery Talks: John Chamberlain


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03/06/2021 12:00 03/06/2021 12:30 America/New_York Gallery Talks: John Chamberlain Event DetailsThursday, June 3, 12–12:30 pmLive on Zoom RSVP and receive a Zoom link here. Join Dia educators on Thursdays at 12 pm for engaging conversations around one artist’s practice or work on view at Dia Beacon. On June 3, Dia educators will discuss the work of artist John Chamberlain. Dia Online FALSE DD/MM/YYYY Gallery Talks: John Chamberlain

Poetry Reading

Tribute to Will Alexander


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08/06/2021 18:00 08/06/2021 23:45 America/New_York Tribute to Will Alexander Event Details Tuesday, June 8, 6 pm Live on Zoom  RSVP and receive a Zoom link here.  Dia is pleased to announce the final event in its Readings in Contemporary Poetry series. This season, instead of pairing two poets for an evening, curator Vincent Katz has chosen a format that pays tribute to five exemplary poets. For each event, a small group of readers will pay homage to one of the featured poets, followed by a reading by that poet. The featured poet for this event is Will Alexander.  The tribute readers for this event will be Tongo Eisen-Martin, Paolo Javier, Janice Lee, and Uche Nduka.  Will Alexander weaves streams and strands of thought and visuals into a soundscape that provides relief but no escape from the maelstrom of human abuse. The social is firmly locked into the planetary in Alexander’s world view; he is not held by any given era or momentary presence. The loxodrome could be a pathway to the Myrmidons or jackals in his poetry. A hallucinatory incantation raises spirits in defense of long-abused ways of living, human, plant, and animal, an exploratory sense, too, of the universe, not to be buckled down by this or that story, “of ethers across the void,” Vallejo imbibing dualities that are not binaries, compression and purity, combustion and leakage, Asia and Haiti. A flow and lull of the greatest moment, Alexander exhorts us to bring our own vastnesses, to sidestep ignorance and pursue whatever knowledge momentary glimpses on our traveling planet allow. He clears out a space for poetry where listeners can come into a communal air. Vincent Katz, June 8, 2021 Will Alexander was born in Los Angeles in 1948. He is a poet, novelist, essayist, philosopher, aphorist, playwright, visual artist, and pianist. He is author of thirty collections of writing, including A Cannibal Explains Himself to Himself (2019), Across the Vapour Gulf (2017), and Kaleidoscopic Omniscience (2013). He is a recipient of the Whiting Fellowship for Poetry, California Arts Council Fellowship, PEN Oakland-Josephine Miles Literary Award, American Book Award, and Jackson Poetry Prize. His work has been translated into French, German, Romanian, and Spanish.  Dia Online FALSE DD/MM/YYYY Tribute to Will Alexander

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Hudson Valley Free Day


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30/05/2021 00:00 30/05/2021 23:45 America/New_York Hudson Valley Free Day 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. Please contact 845 231 0811 or tickets@diaart.org to reserve tickets. Hudson Valley Free Days at Dia Beacon are made possible by Charlie Pohlad.     Dia Beacon TURE DD/MM/YYYY Hudson Valley Free Day

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