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March 7 to April 6, 2025

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Learning Program

Saturday Studio at Dia Beacon

Saturday, March 8, 2025, 10:30 am
Dia Beacon

Event detailsSaturday, March 8, 202510:30 am–12 pm Dia Beacon Learning Lab3 Beekman StreetBeacon, New York Free. Spaces are limited; registration opens Friday, February 28, at 9 am. Join a practicing artist for a workshop of art-making, material experimentation, and play at Dia Beacon. Designed for all ages, Saturday Studio is a family-friendly program that is most suitable for children ages five and up. Saturday Studio begins promptly at 10:30 am at Dia Beacon. For more information, please contact learning@diaart.org.

Members’ Event

Viewing with the Artist of Renée Green: The Equator Has Moved

Saturday, March 8, 2025, 11 am
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Event detailsSaturday, March 8, 202511 am Dia Beacon3 Beekman StreetBeacon, New York For all members. Join or renew today. Join us at Dia Beacon for an exclusive viewing of Renée Green: The Equator Has Moved, with an introduction by the artist and Dia curator and co–department head, Jordan Carter. Guests are invited to stay for a conversation with Green taking place in the Gerhard Richter gallery at 2 pm. RSVP to Anna Richards at membership@diaart.org or 212 293 5520.

Tour

Public Tour of Steve McQueen

Saturday, March 8, 2025, 2 pm
Dia Chelsea

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Dia Talks

A Conversation with Renée Green

Saturday, March 8, 2025, 2 pm
Dia Beacon

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Event details Saturday, March 8, 20252 pm Dia Beacon3 Beekman StreetBeacon, New York Free with museum admission. On the occasion of Renée Green: The Equator Has Moved, the artist joins Dia curator and co–department head Jordan Carter in conversation. The program takes place in the Gerhard Richter gallery at Dia Beacon. Renée Green was born in Cleveland in 1959. She graduated from Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut, in 1981, and participated in the Whitney Museum of American Art’s Independent Study Program in New York in 1989–90. Surveys of her work have been held at Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne, Switzerland (2009–10); Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco (2010); and KW Institute for Contemporary Art and daadgalerie, Berlin (2021–22), in collaboration with Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich (2023). Extensive solo presentations include those at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (1993); Secession, Vienna (1999); Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona (2000); National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, United Kingdom (2008); MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles (2015); and Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Cambridge, Massachusetts (2016–18). In 2009, a retrospective of her films took place at Jeu de Paume, Paris. Her work has been included in numerous biennials, including those at the Whitney Museum of American Art (1993 and 2022), Venice (1993), Gwangju (1997), Berlin (2001), Seville (2006), and Istanbul (2007), as well as in Documenta 11, Kassel (2002). A prolific writer, Green’s essays and fiction have appeared in magazines and journals such as Collapse, October, Texte zur Kunst, and Transition. She is the author of Other Planes of There: Selected Writings (2014), and the editor of Negotiations in the Contact Zone (2003). Green is a professor in the Art, Culture, and Technology program at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She lives in Somerville, Massachusetts, and New York.

Dia Talks

Julia Scher on Bruce Nauman

Wednesday, March 12, 2025, 6:30 pm
Dia Chelsea

Artists on Artists Lecture Series

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Event details Wednesday, March 12, 20256:30 pm Dia Chelsea 537 West 22nd Street New York, New York Free. Spaces are limited; register for the event here. Julia Scher was born in Los Angeles in 1954. Scher’s work across performance, video, installation, and sculpture conflates apparatuses of surveillance and technology with the politics of gender. Recent solo presentations include Maximum Security Society at Kunsthalle Zürich (2022–23) and Abteiberg Museum, Mönchengladbach, Germany (2023), and American Landscape at Ortuzar Projects, New York (2024). Recent group exhibitions include those at the Hessel Museum of Art at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York (2018); Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (2018); and Museum of Modern Art, New York (2023). Scher has taught at Columbia University, New York; Harvard University, Cambridge; and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, among others. Scher lives in Cologne.

Learning Program

Play Sets: Meg Webster

Saturday, March 15, 2025, 10:30 am
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Play Sets

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Event detailsSaturday, March 15, 202510:30–11:15 am Dia Beacon3 Beekman StreetBeacon, New York Free. Spaces are limited and offered on a first-come, first-served basis. Explore the galleries through in-depth engagements with a single artist or artwork. Each program includes hands-on exercises that invite participants to see, think, and imagine in new ways. On March 15, Dia educators will focus on the work of Meg Webster. Recommended for families with children ages five and up. All families participating in the Play Sets program receive free admission to Dia Beacon for the day. For more information, please contact learning@diaart.org.

Dia Talks

Swamp Summit: Dirt and Water

Thursday–Friday, March 20–21, 2025
Dia Beacon and Dia Chelsea

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Event detailsThursday, March 20, 2025Dia Beacon3 Beekman StreetBeacon, New York Friday, March 21, 2025Dia Chelsea537 West 22nd StreetNew York, New York Free. Spaces are limited; registration details to come. From March 20 to 21, Dia Art Foundation and Storefront for Art and Architecture co-host a convening of artists, architects, writers, curators, anthropologists, scholars, environmental activists, poets, and other practitioners. The gathering aims to foster conversation about the relationship between natural and built environments, focusing on the entangled threshold where water meets land. Participants will engage in dialogue that addresses pressing environmental issues in the context of legacies of art, historically excluded communities, and how those working at the intersection of art and architecture are in a unique position to address these questions. The convening culminates a year of Swamplands programming at Storefront, and a series of recent and upcoming projects at Dia that examine these themes. It also honors the history of institutional relationships shaped by intertwined curatorial interests. While the first day of the summit is closed for Swamp Summit participants, the public is invited to join on March 21 for a series of engagements at Dia Chelsea taking place from 3 to 7 pm. Detailed schedule and participants to be announced.

Learning Program

Play Sets: Andy Warhol

Saturday, March 22, 2025, 10:30 am
Dia Beacon

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Event detailsSaturday, March 22, 202510:30–11:15 am Dia Beacon3 Beekman StreetBeacon, New York Free. Spaces are limited and offered on a first-come, first-served basis. Explore the galleries through in-depth engagements with a single artist or artwork. Each program includes hands-on exercises that invite participants to see, think, and imagine in new ways. On March 22, Dia educators will focus on the work of Andy Warhol. Recommended for families with children ages five and up. All families participating in the Play Sets program receive free admission to Dia Beacon for the day. For more information, please contact learning@diaart.org.

Poetry Reading

Poetry &: In Search of . . . Sugarcane / The Break-Up with LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs and Gabri Christa

Saturday, March 29, 2025, 12–3 pm
Dia Chelsea

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Event detailsSaturday, March 29, 202512–3 pm Dia Chelsea537 West 22nd StreetNew York, New York Free. Spaces are limited; register here. Poet and vocalist LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs debuts a new multimedia project comprising the publication In Search of . . . Sugarcane and the video The Break-Up (both 2025) as part of a “memorial service” at Dia Chelsea. The publication draws from Diggs’s book Village (2023) and magnifies it with a hybrid essay documenting the purchase of a five-story postwar building in Central Harlem as well as its surrounding block and community. Meanwhile, in The Break-Up, made in collaboration with Gabri Christa and modeled on the works of Theo Anthony and Chris Marker, a native Harlemite is determined to fight and remain in a rent-stabilized apartment despite the ghosts and memories that speak through the sounds of active demolition, water leaks, and unwelcome visitors. A performative installation—featuring the video, an altar to Diggs’s Apartment 5RE, and the accompanying publication—takes inspiration from the state of tenant rights in New York and the mysterious phenomena known as “UEO” (unidentified European owner) to call for awareness to the national housing crisis, displacement, and the embodied impact of spatial and communal memory. Using text, performance, and moving-image, Diggs poses the questions: When is home no longer home? What are the dilemmas and legacies that perplex the native Harlemite? Why are UEOs like the Loch Ness Monster? The viewing starts at 12 pm and the service begins at 2 pm. LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs was born and raised in New York. She is an interdisciplinary poet, sound artist, and author of TwERK (2013) and Village (2023), among other titles. Diggs’s work is truly hybrid: Languages and modes are grafted together and furl out insistently from each bound splice. Diggs has received a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship (2015), a Whiting Award (2016), and a C.D. Wright Award for Poetry from the Foundation of Contemporary Art (2020), as well as grants and fellowships from Cave Canem, Creative Capital, Howard Foundation, and the Japan–United States Friendship Commission. Diggs has performed at an array of venues from CalArts, Valencia, and the Museum of Modern Art, New York, to poetry festivals in Denmark and Romania. As an independent curator, artistic director, and producer, she has presented events for BAMCafé, Brooklyn; Lincoln Center Out of Doors, New York; and El Museo del Barrio, New York. She teaches at Brooklyn and Barnard Colleges and lives in New York. Gabri Christa was born and raised in Curaçao. She is a transdisciplinary artist whose work explores social issues through a postcolonial and experimental lens, and her creative practice centers multigenerational work. Her award-winning films have been screened at international festivals, museums, and galleries, and her latest screendance film, KANKANTRI (Silk Cotton Tree, 2024), is touring to various festivals worldwide. Christa was named one of the world’s 100 best filmmakers at Pangea Day (2008), a TED project, and awards for her choreography include a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship (1999). An Atlantic Fellow for Equity in Global Brain Health, she is an associate professor of professional practice at Barnard College, New York, as well as founding director of the college’s Movement Lab, and founder of the Moving Body – Moving Image Festival. Christa lives in New York and is on the city’s Cultural Affairs Advisory Commission.

Learning Program

Play Sets: Larry Bell

Saturday, March 29, 2025, 10:30 am
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Play Sets

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Event detailsSaturday, March 29, 202510:30–11:15 am Dia Beacon3 Beekman StreetBeacon, New York Free. Spaces are limited and offered on a first-come, first-served basis. Explore the galleries through in-depth engagements with a single artist or artwork. Each program includes hands-on exercises that invite participants to see, think, and imagine in new ways. On March 29, Dia educators will focus on the work of Larry Bell. Recommended for families with children ages five and up. All families participating in the Play Sets program receive free admission to Dia Beacon for the day. For more information, please contact learning@diaart.org.

Learning Program

Play Sets: Keith Sonnier’s Ba-O-Ba VI

Sunday, March 30, 2025, 10:30 am
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Event detailsSunday, March 30, 202510:30–11:15 am Dia Beacon3 Beekman StreetBeacon, New York Free. Spaces are limited and offered on a first-come, first-served basis. Explore the galleries through in-depth engagements with a single artist or artwork. Each program includes hands-on exercises that invite participants to see, think, and imagine in new ways. On March 30, Dia educators will focus on the work of Keith Sonnier. Recommended for families with children ages five and up. All families participating in the Play Sets program receive free admission to Dia Beacon for the day. For more information, please contact learning@diaart.org.

Dia Talks

Martine Syms on Walter De Maria

Wednesday, April 2, 2025, 6:30 pm
Dia Chelsea

Artists on Artists Lecture Series

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Event detailsWednesday, April 2, 20256:30 pm Dia Chelsea 537 West 22nd Street New York, New York Free. Spaces are limited; register for the event here. Martine Syms was born in Los Angeles in 1988. Syms’s work across media and genres, often employing humor and narration, explores notions of the self within popular culture. Recent solo presentations include Projects 106: Martine Syms, Museum of Modern Art, New York (2017); She Mad: Season One, Bergen Kunsthall, Norway (2021–22), and Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (2022–23); and Total, Lafayette Anticipations, Paris (2024–25). Recent group exhibitions include those at the Moderna Museet, Stockholm (2022); Kunsthal Charlottenborg Biennale, Copenhagen (2023); and the Art Museum at the University of Toronto (2024–25). As a filmmaker, Syms directed She Mad: Bitch Zone (2020) and The African Desperate (2022). She is the author of several books including Implications and Distinctions: Format, Content, and Context in Contemporary Race Film (2011), Neural Swamp (2022), and She Mad (2024). Syms lives in Los Angeles.

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