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August 10 to September 9, 2021

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Ways of Listening


Dia Online

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16/08/2021 12:00 16/08/2021 00:00 America/New_York Ways of Listening Event DetailsMonday, August 16, 12 pmListen live on Radio Alhara Tune in at radioalhara.net. Artist Mark Trecka presents an experimental and collaborative sound work created by residents of River Haven Youth Shelter in Poughkeepsie, New York, during an intensive three-day workshop facilitated by Trecka in July 2021.  River Haven Youth Shelter offers safe housing, guidance, and counseling for young people in the Hudson Valley as part of Hudson River Housing. Radio Alhara is a radio based in Bethlehem and Ramallah, in Palestine, and Amman, in Jordan. Launched during the COVID-19 pandemic, Alhara encompasses the idea of a public space. The radio hosts musical sets, conversations, recordings, and discussions, and its main aim is to blur the lines between producers and listeners. Mark Trecka is a Chicago-born writer, sound artist, singer, and activist. His writing has appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books, New Inquiry, Vice, and elsewhere. He has collaborated with Susan Alcorn, Midwife, A-Y/dancers, Audra Wolowiec, Drekka, and others, and has created broadcast projects for Palestine's Radio Alhara and Radio Coyote. He is the cofounder and lead organizer of the Beacon Prison Books Project, a volunteer-run solidarity program that provides free books to incarcerated people throughout New York State, where Trecka currently resides. Dia Online FALSE DD/MM/YYYY Ways of Listening

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21/08/2021 12:00 21/08/2021 23:45 America/New_York A Conversation with Maren Hassinger, Donna De Salvo, and Christina Mossaides Strassfield Event Details Saturday, August 21, 2021, 12 pm Doors open at 11:30 am. Proof of vaccination is required.Guild Hall Museum 158 Main Street East Hampton, New York  In collaboration with the Guild Hall Museum  This conversation between artist Maren Hassinger, Dia curator Donna De Salvo, and Guild Hall Museum director and chief curator Christina Mossaides Strassfield will focus on Hassinger’s practice as well as the arts community in the Hamptons in the 1990s. The artist's new exhibition at Dia Bridgehampton opened in June 2021 and will be on view through early May 2022.  More information here.  Maren Hassinger was born in Los Angeles in 1947. She graduated from Bennington College, Vermont, with a BA in sculpture in 1969, and from the University of California, Los Angeles, with an MFA in fiber structure in 1973. While living in East Hampton in the 1990s, Hassinger was an active participant in the Long Island arts community. Her work appeared in numerous local exhibitions including Volume: 6 Contemporary Sculptors, Guild Hall, East Hampton, in 1992, and Sightings, Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, in 1994. She also realized performances such as A Day at the Beach for the Victor D’Amico Institute of Art, Amagansett, in 1995. She was a lecturer in the art department of Stony Brook Southampton from 1992 to 1997. Hassinger has completed solo presentations and projects at, among others, Aspen Art Museum, Colorado; Baltimore Museum of Art; Boca Raton Museum of Art, Florida; deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, Massachusetts; Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; and National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC. She recently retired after twenty years as the director of the Rinehart School of Sculpture at the Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore. Hassinger lives in New York.  Donna De Salvo is Dia's senior adjunct curator of special projects. In the 1990s, she was the Robert Lehman Curator at the Parrish Art Museum, where she organized numerous exhibitions including an installation of work by Maren Hassinger.    Christina Mossaides Strassfield is the museum director and chief curator of the Guild Hall Museum in East Hampton, New York. She was curator at Guild Hall from 1990–96 and returned to the institution in 2002.  Offsite FALSE DD/MM/YYYY A Conversation with Maren Hassinger, Donna De Salvo, and Christina Mossaides Strassfield

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Hudson Valley Free Day


Dia Beacon

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29/08/2021 00:00 29/08/2021 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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