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Members’ Shopping Days

May 10–27, 2019
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Event Details May 10–27, 2019 From May 10 through May 27 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. Join, renew, or give a gift membership today.

Dia Talks

Posenenske Sessions

Fridays, May 31–June 21, 2019, 6 pm
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Event DetailsFridays, May 31–June 21, 2019, 6 pm Dia:Beacon 3 Beekman StreetBeacon, New York In conjunction with the exhibition Charlotte Posenenske: Work in Progress, Dia presents a month of open discussions at Dia:Beacon, which take Posenenske's work as a point of departure. These Beacon-based evenings invite participants to contribute to a sustained conversation about the labor of making and the spaces in which this unfolds with artists, scholars, and activists from the region. Each of the four participatory sessions will address one of the central themes of Posenenske's work: form, labor, space, and play. Held in the galleries, each session is free and open to the public. These evenings will allow for private viewings of the exhibition with the curators and session leaders while the museum is closed. Space limited; reservations are required. Resources related to the evening discussions will be available to registered participants in advance of each session. Form Friday, May 31, 2019, 6 pm Led by artists Rey Akdogan and Alan Ruiz, both of whom have, in their own practices, engaged with Posenenske's modular sculpture, this session invites discussion about questions of form as they pertain to this radical work. Labor Friday, June 7, 2019, 6 pm This conversation with sociologist and labor scholar Stephanie Luce and activist Sandra Oxford will focus on labor activism in the Hudson Valley today. Space Friday, June 14, 2019, 6 pm Led by architect Diana Mangaser, this workshop will explore how Posenenske's work creates spaces of imaginative thinking and is shaped by its situational environment. Play Friday, June 21, 2019, 6 pm Steve Seidel, director of the Arts in Education program at Harvard University, will lead a discussion about the ways in which we cultivate spaces of play in contemporary society.About the session leaders Rey Akdogan is a German-born artist based in New York City. By employing materials ubiquitous in our environment, Akdogan resignifies and subverts their use value. Her interest in standards as the anonymous-yet-familiar infrastructure of our everyday signals her conceptual proximity to Charlotte Posenenske. In 2013 the artist stripped the tile floor of her Lower East Side gallery of its tiling before installing a configuration of Posenenske’s Vierkantrohre Serie D (Square Tubes Series D, 1967– ). Akdogan completed the Whitney Independent Study Program in 2004 after receiving her MA in 2001 from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London. Recent one-person exhibitions of her work have been shown at Hannah Hoffman Gallery in Los Angeles (2017), Miguel Abreu Gallery in New York City (2017), Radio Athènes in Athens (2016), and MoMA PS1 in New York City (2012). Alan Ruiz is an artist and writer based in New York City, whose work explores the ways space is produced as both material and ideology. He received an MFA from Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, and participated in the Whitney Independent Study Program in New York. His work has been shown at the Bronx Museum of the Arts, the Kitchen, Queens Museum, and Storefront for Art and Architecture, among other New York institutions. He has been an artist-in-residence at Abrons Arts Center, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, and the Whitney Museum of Art's Youth Insights program, and his writing has been featured in BOMB Magazine, Millennium Film Journal, and Women & Performance, among others. Ruiz teaches at Pratt Institute and the New School in New York. Stephanie Luce is a professor of labor studies and sociology at City University of New York. She received her BA from the University of California, Davis, and both her MA in industrial relations and PhD in sociology from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Known for her research on living-wage campaigns and social movements, she is the author of Fighting for a Living Wage (2004). Her current research focuses on globalization and labor standards, labor-community coalitions, and regional labor markets. Her most recent book is Labor Movements: Global Perspectives (2014). Sandra Oxford is a longtime labor activist based in the Hudson Valley. She has been involved in immigrant rights and labor movements for many years, including organizing for the United Food and Commercial Workers, New York State Justice for Farm workers campaign, Hudson Valley Area Labor Federation, and the Worker Justice Center of New York. Diana Mangaser is an artist, architect, and educator. She received her MA in architecture from Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, and her BA in architecture from the University of California, Berkeley. Based in Newburgh, New York, she leads the creative practice Y S D M with Yoshihiro Sergel and directs the creative initiative Artist-in-Vacancy with the Newburgh Community Land Bank, Newburgh, New York. Mangaser’s own practice explores communally constructed spaces, recalling the radical approach to art making set forth by Charlotte Posenenske. An artist educator at Dia:Beacon, Mangaser’s spring curriculum is shaped by the exhibition Charlotte Posenenske: Work in Progress. During this Arts Education Program, Dia’s Learning Lab and classrooms function as sites for students to collaboratively build a space wherein elements such as walls and columns are mutable forms to be constructed, moved, and transformed. Steve Seidel holds the Patricia Bauman and John Landrum Bryant Chair in Arts in Education and is Faculty Director of the program at the Harvard Graduate School of Education in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He was formerly director of the research center Project Zero between 2000 and 2008. Seidel is currently conducting a study focused on working artists’ insights into artistic development and learning entitled “Talking With Artists Who Teach." Before becoming a researcher, Seidel taught high school theater and language arts in the Boston area for seventeen years. He has also worked as a professional actor and stage director.

Learning Program

Dia:Beacon Arts Education Program, 2019 Student Exhibition

Saturday, June 8, and Sunday, June 9, 2019, 11 am–6 pm
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View the invitation as a PDF. Event DetailsSaturday, June 8, and Sunday, June 9, 2019, 11 am–6 pm Dia:Beacon Learning Lab Dia:Beacon3 Beekman StreetBeacon, New York This exhibition features participatory installations and artworks made during the 2019 Arts Education Program by students from Glenham, J. V. Forrestal, Sargent, and South Avenue Elementary Schools, as well as Rombout Middle School. Dia:Beacon’s Arts Education Program partnership with the Beacon City School District (BCSD) provides K–12 students with an intimate setting to respond critically to Dia:Beacon through multisession workshops with artist educators. Join BCSD students for an opening reception on Saturday, June 8, from 11 am to 12 pm. The exhibition will be open to the public on Saturday, June 8, and Sunday, June 9, from 11 am to 6 pm. Please note, this event is open to all and will take the place of the June 8 Saturday Studio program. Saturday Studio workshops will resume on July 13, 2019. Admission Admission to Dia:Beacon is complimentary for guests visiting the student exhibition. Upon arrival, inform the admissions staff that you are attending the Arts Education Program exhibition in the Learning Lab.

Poetry Reading

Alan Bernheimer and Jean Day

Tuesday, May 14, 2019, 6:30 pm
Dia Chelsea

Readings in Contemporary Poetry

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Event DetailsTuesday, May 14, 2019, 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 are recommended. Tickets are also available for purchase at the door, subject to availability. Alan Bernheimer’s new collection of poetry, From Nature, is forthcoming from Cuneiform Press in 2019. Recent work has appeared at Across the Margin and in Delineator, Equalizer, and Hambone. Born and raised in New York City, he has lived in the Bay Area since the 1970s. He produces a portrait gallery of poets reading on flickr. His translation of Philippe Soupault’s memoir, Lost Profiles: Memoirs of Cubism, Dada, and Surrealism was published by City Lights in 2016. BREAKFAST Forgetting words The moment you Hear or read them Is one way to avoid Plagiarizing but just Keep their flavor And then try Expressing thatIn your own words As if you could Own words You can't even Keep thoughtsFrom slipping awayThey’re the slipperiest Of all the slippery Things in lifeThe hotel elevator That rises way Past the roof And slips across A higher landscapeA different neighborhood Why not ask If any of these Places will be Open for breakfast Jean Day is an editor, a poet, and a union activist, whose Triumph of Life was just published in 2018 by Insurance Editions. Recent poems can also be seen in Across the Margin, Breather, Chicago Review, Delineator, Jongler (French), and Open House, as well as in her Daydream, published last year by Litmus Press. Earlier works include Early Bird (O’Clock, 2014) and Enthusiasm (Adventures in Poetry, 2006), among other books. Her work has also appeared in many anthologies, including the recent Resist Much/Obey Little (Spuyten Duyvil, 2017) and Out of Everywhere 2: Linguistically Innovative Poetry by Women in North America & the UK (Reality Street, 2015). She lives in Berkeley, where she works as managing editor of Representations, an interdisciplinary humanities journal published by University of California Press. FROM A DISTANT STAR Sectarian quiet is a myth. I knew it would be like this: Milky sky of latewild turkeys in traffican earlier and earlier dinner. It pays to be smart in any universe. But we are down to the final call for volunteers –from The Triumph of Life

Dia Talks

Evangelia Antonakos on Dorothea Rockburne

Saturday, May 18, 2019, 2 pm
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Event DetailsSaturday, May 18, 2019, 2 pm Dia:Beacon3 Beekman StreetBeacon, New York Free with museum admission. No reservations required. Space is limited and offered on a first-come, first-served basis. Evangelia Antonakos is an assistant professor in the department of mathematics and computer science at the Bronx Community College campus of the City University of New York. Antonakos received her PhD in mathematics from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, where she studied with Sergei Artemov. She is in interested in mathematical logic, particularly justification logic and modal logic. Antonakos lives and works in New York City.

Dia Talks

Camille Norment on Max Neuhaus

Tuesday, May 21, 2019, 6:30 pm
Dia Chelsea

Artists on Artists Lecture Series

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Event DetailsTuesday, May 21, 2019, 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. Camille Norment was born in Silver Spring, Maryland, in 1970. Norment’s work spans drawing, installation, performance, and sound, using notions of “cultural psychoacoustics” and dissonance to investigate sociocultural phenomena through sound and music. In the past two years, highlights of her practice include performances with Ryuichi Sakamoto in New York (2018) and Japan (2017), commissioned performances with pianist Craig Taborn at the Park Avenue Armory in New York City (2016), as well as performances and exhibitions at the San Francisco Museum of Art (2017–18), Bergan International Festival in Norway (2016), and Pushkin Museum in Moscow (2016). Her work has also recently been featured in the Lyon Biennial in France (2017–18), Kochi-Muziris Biennial in India (2016), and Montréal Biennial (2016). At the 2015 Venice Biennale, Norment represented Norway with a three-part project that included a large-scale sound-and-sculptural installation, a publication series, and a sonic performance series. She lives and works in Oslo.

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