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February 2 to March 4, 2018

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Dia Talks

Yve-Alain Bois and Benjamin
H. D. Buchloh on François Morellet

Saturday, February 3, 2018, 2:30 pm
Dia Chelsea

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Event DetailsSaturday, February 3, 2018, 2:30 pm Dia:Chelsea535 West 22nd Street, 5th FloorNew York City This event has reached capacity. Advance reservations are no longer available. Walk-up tickets will be available at the door, subject to availability. Dia Art Foundation presents a conversation between prominent scholars Yve-Alain Bois and Benjamin H. D. Buchloh. Adjunct curator of François Morellet, Béatrice Gross, moderates the conversation. Yve-Alain Bois is Professor of Art History in the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey. Bois is the author of Painting as Model (MIT Press, 1991), an editor of the journal October, and coeditor of Art Since 1900: Modernism, Antimodernism, Postmodernism (Thames & Hudson, 2004) with Benjamin H. D. Buchloh, Hal Foster, and Rosalind Krauss. In 2016 October published an anthology of François Morellet’s writings along with Bois’s “François Morellet/Sol LeWitt: A Case Study Revisited.” He is currently working on the catalogue raisonné of Ellsworth Kelly’s paintings and sculpture. Benjamin H. D. Buchloh is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Modern Art at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Buchloh is the author of Neo-Avantgarde and Culture Industry: Essays on European and American Art from 1955 to 1975 (MIT Press, 2001) and Formalism and Historicity: Models and Methods in Twentieth-Century Art (MIT Press, 2015), as well an editor of the journal October and a contributor at the magazine Artforum. Along with Yve-Alain Bois, Hal Foster, and Rosalind Krauss, he is the coeditor of Art Since 1900: Modernism, Antimodernism, Postmodernism (Thames & Hudson, 2004). In 2007 Buchloh received the Venice Biennale’s Golden Lion Award for Contemporary Art History and Criticism. He has previously written essays for Dia on artists James Coleman and Thomas Hirschhorn. This program is made possible by support from Lisa and Tom Blumenthal. Symposia and other DiaTalks are part of the Sackler Institute at Dia Art Foundation. Public programs at Dia:Chelsea are supported in part by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Poetry Reading

Steve Dickison and
Julie Ezelle-Patton

Tuesday, February 13, 2018, 6:30 pm
Dia Chelsea

Readings in Contemporary Poetry

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Event DetailsTuesday, February 13, 2018, 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 ticket purchases recommended. Tickets are also available for purchase at the door, subject to availability. Steve Dickison is author of Disposed (Post-Apollo Press, 2007) and the forthcoming Zora Neale Hurston’s Liberation Music Orchestra (Omnidawn, 2018). With David Meltzer in 2002–06, he coedited the music magazine Shuffle Boil. Dickison is coeditor of the anthologies Prison/Culture (City Lights Foundation, 2009) and Homage to Etel Adnan (Post-Apollo Press, 2012), and has also edited and published various works under the imprint Listening Chamber. His work has recently been published in BAX 2015: Best American Experimental Writing (Wesleyan University Press, 2016), as well as the magazines and journals Amerarcana, Aufgabe, BOMB, Hambone, Mandorla, pallaksch. pallaksch., and Vanitas. His work has also appeared online at EOAGH, Evening Will Come (the Volta), ONandOnScreen, and Open Space (San Francisco Museum of Modern Art). He received the BOMB Poetry Prize in 2014. Dickison lives in San Francisco, where he is director of the Poetry Center at San Francisco State University. He also teaches at San Francisco State University and California College of the Arts, Oakland. ‘the friend’ that the bird with the enormous velvet nerve-bodyarticulated legs more like an insect than I knewgreedy mouth wanted to feed out of my mouthapparently they are always hungry“what they are screaming is ada ada the word for pain”the verb was the same as in spanish ayudarecho’d “are you there?” or in arabic wadada “tears become pears for mothers to feed their children”_____19iii08 for McN Julie Ezelle-Patton’s poetic work emphasizes collaboration, conservation work, curating, improvisation, and literary and musical composition. Her work has appeared in Critiphoria as well as poetry collections including BAX 2016: Best American Experimental Writing (Wesleyan University Press, 2017), Big Energy Poets: Ecopoetry Thinks Climate Change (BlazeVOX, 2017), What I Say: Innovative Poetry by Black Writers in America (University of Alabama Press, 2015), and I'll Drown My Book: Conceptual Writing by Women (Les Figues, 2012). She has performed in music, literary, and art festivals and venues in the United States and abroad. Patton is the author of Teething on Type (Rodent Press, 1996), “A Garden per Verse (or What Else Do You Expect from Dirt?)” (Hat, 1999), Notes for Some (Nominally) Awake (Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs, 2007), and “Using Blue to Get Black” (Crayon, 2008), and the forthcoming works B (Tender Buttons Press) and Writing with Crooked Ink (Belladonna). The Building by the Side of the Road (About Place Journal, 2012) chronicles Ezelle-Patton’s adventures creating Let It Bee Ark Hives, an artist housing and conservation project based in her hometown, Cleveland. Ezelle-Patton is a 2018 Front Artist in Residence. She has been the recipient of a 2015 Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists for Poetry award and a 2012 Doan Brook Watershed Hero award, among other distinctions. PDF of Julie Ezelle-Patton's poem, ID

Members’ Event

Curator-Led Tour of François Morellet

Wednesday, February 21, 2018, 6:30 pm
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Event DetailsWednesday, February 21, 2018, 6:30 pm For all members. Join or renew today. Dia:Chelsea545 West 22nd StreetNew York City Join adjunct curator Béatrice Gross for a private tour of François Morellet. This in-depth exhibition of the late artist—the first to be presented in the United States in more than thirty years—explores his pioneering approach to creating object-based paintings, neon works, and architectural and site-related installations. RSVP to Sibia Sarangan at ssarangan@diaart.org or 212 293 5602.

Dia Talks

François Morellet Symposium

Saturday, March 3, 2018, 11 am–4 pm
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Event DetailsSaturday, March 3, 2018, 11 am–3:30 pm Dia:Chelsea535 West 22nd Street, 5th FloorNew York City $5 for Dia members; $10 general admission; $8 admission for students and seniors Advance ticket purchases recommended. Tickets are also available for purchase at the door, subject to availability. In conjunction with the exhibition of works by François Morellet, Dia Art Foundation hosts a group of scholars, curators, artists, and writers for a symposium on Morellet’s multifaceted oeuvre and extensive career. Speakers reflect on his practice from a diverse array of perspectives. Participants include Alexander Alberro, John Armleder, Béatrice Gross, Valerie Hillings, and Daniel Levin Becker. The symposium will conclude with a panel discussion and question-and-answer session with all of the participants. Symposium TopicsAlexander Alberro: “Morellet and 1950s Geometric Abstraction in Brazil”Béatrice Gross: “Geometry in Motion: Morellet’s Style Versatile”Valerie Hillings: “Six Heads Are Better Than One: François Morellet and the Groupe de Recherche d’Art Visuel (1960–68)”Daniel Levin Becker: “Morellet: Wordplay, Constraint, Chance, and the Ouvroir de littérature potentielle” This program is made possible by support from Lisa and Tom Blumenthal. Symposia and other DiaTalks are part of the Sackler Institute at Dia Art Foundation. Public programs at Dia:Chelsea are supported in part by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

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