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Learning Program

Saturday Studio at Dia Beacon

Saturday, April 12, 2025, 10:30 am
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Event detailsSaturday, April 12, 202510:30 am–12 pm Dia Beacon Learning Lab3 Beekman StreetBeacon, New York Free. Spaces are limited; registration opens Friday, April 4, 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.

Tour

Public Tour of Steve McQueen

Saturday, April 12, 2025, 2 pm
Dia Chelsea

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Dia Talks

Madame Architect Presents: Dia’s Jessica Morgan with Architecture Research Office’s Kim Yao and Adam Yarinsky

Wednesday, April 16, 2025, 6:30 pm
Dia Chelsea

Dia Talks

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Event detailsWednesday, April 16, 20256:30 pm Dia Chelsea537 West 22nd StreetNew York, New York Free. Spaces are limited; register here. Join Madame Architect’s Kate Reggev for a conversation with Dia director Jessica Morgan and Architecture Research Office’s Kim Yao and Adam Yarinsky about the design of Dia Chelsea. The conversation is introduced by Madame Architect editor-in-chief Julia Gamolina. Julia Gamolina is the founder and editor-in-chief of Madame Architect, a digital magazine focused on the extraordinary women that shape our world. Trained as an architect and with over a decade of experience across all aspects of design, business development, and communications, she is also an associate principal at Ennead Architects, New York, and teaches graduate professional practice and media courses at Pratt Institute, Brooklyn. Her writing has been featured in A Women’s Thing, Fast Company, Metropolis Magazine, and the Architect’s Newspaper, and she serves on the advisory board for Untapped New York’s Journalism Fellowship. In 2023 and 2024, Gamolina was included in Wallpaper*’s USA 300, a list of the people defining the creative landscape of the United States. In 2024, Madame Architect received the Architecture in Media Award from the American Institute of Architects New York. She earned her bachelor of architecture at Cornell University, Ithaca, graduating with the Charles Goodwin Sands Memorial Medal for exceptional thesis. Jessica Morgan is Dia’s Nathalie de Gunzburg Director. Kate Reggev is an architect, project manager, historian, design writer, and educator with over a decade of experience in the design, construction, and preservation worlds. She is currently the project manager leading the design and construction of the Cohen Career Collective, a 160,000–square foot workforce training and educational center at LaGuardia Community College, Long Island City. Previously, she was a project manager at Zubatkin Owner Representation and an associate at the architecture firm of Beyer Blinder Belle, both in New York. Reggev also writes about architecture and design for publications like Architectural Digest and Dwell; teaches in the Historic Preservation Program at Columbia University, New York; consults on preservation projects; and authors an historical column at Madame Architect. She’s been quoted in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and Architectural Digest, and lectures across the country about architecture, preservation, and design. Reggev holds a master of architecture and a master of science in historic preservation from Columbia University, as well as a bachelor of arts in architecture, cum laude, from Barnard College at Columbia University. Kim Yao, Fellow of the American Institute of Architects, is a principal at Architecture Research Office (ARO), a New York firm united in its collaborative process, commitment to accountable action, and social and environmental responsibility. ARO’s diverse body of work has earned the firm over 100 design awards including the 2020 Architecture Firm Award from the American Institute of Architects. Yao is a lecturer at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, and has taught at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation at Columbia University; Parson’s School of Constructed Environments at the New School; and Barnard College, all in New York. She has lectured throughout the United States and abroad. Yao has been awarded the American Institute of Architects New York (AIANY) Medal of Honor and the Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation Mentorship Award. She was president of AIANY in 2020 and serves on the board of the Center for Architecture, also in New York. She holds a bachelor of architecture from Columbia University, and a master of architecture from Princeton University, New Jersey. Adam Yarinsky, Fellow of the American Institute of Architects, is a principal of Architecture Research Office (ARO). He is a lecturer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, and has taught at Harvard University, Cambridge; University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; Princeton University, New Jersey; Yale University, New Haven; the University of Virginia, Charlottesville; and other institutions. He has also lectured widely and written about ARO’s work. Yarinsky served on the board of Places Journal from 2012 to 2018, and he is on the Dean’s Advisory Board of the University of Virginia’s School of Architecture. He was a Fall/Winter 2023 resident at the American Academy in Rome. Yarinsky holds a bachelor of architecture from the University of Virginia and a master of architecture from Princeton University.

Learning Program

Evergreen Minds Workshop

Saturday, April 19, 2025, 10:30 am–12 pm
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Evergreen Minds Workshops

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Event detailsSaturday, April 19, 202510:30 am–12 pm Dia Beacon3 Beekman StreetBeacon, New York Free. Spaces are limited; registration opens Saturday, March 29. In this program, designed for adults living with dementia and their care partners, participants engage with one artist or gallery at Dia Beacon with guidance from Dia educators and Dr. Michelle Olson, art therapist and executive director of Evergreen Minds. Following an in-gallery discussion, participants create their own works of art based on their experience. Please note: this program requires walking through gallery spaces. Seating will be provided throughout the program and wheelchairs are available upon request. For more information, email learning@diaart.org. Evergreen Minds is an organization based in the gorgeous Mahicantuck (Hudson River) Valley region of New York. Evergreen Minds offers people living with dementia opportunities for meaningful connections and pathways to physical, social, and emotional well-being through mindful immersions in nature and expressive arts. Evergreen Minds runs on the generous support of its community. If you are able, please consider making a donation.

Learning Program

Play Sets: Michael Heizer

Saturday, April 19, 2025, 10:30 am
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Play Sets

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Event detailsSaturday, April 19, 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 April 19, Dia educators will focus on the work of Michael Heizer. 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

Max Hooper Schneider on Lucas Samaras and Meg Webster

Saturday, April 19, 2025, 2 pm
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Event details Saturday, April 19, 20252 pm Dia Beacon3 Beekman StreetBeacon, New York Free with museum admission. Artist Max Hooper Schneider discusses the work of Lucas Samaras and Meg Webster—both on long-term view at Dia Beacon—reflecting on the intersections of their practices as well as their combined influence on his own. Max Hooper Schneider was born in Los Angeles in 1982. He graduated from Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 2011 with a master’s degree in landscape architecture. The foregrounding of material technologies and tactics of defamiliarization within the fields of biology, philosophy, landscape architecture, and varying subcultures continue to inform his polymathic practice. Hooper Schneider’s work explores and develops the aesthetics of succession, abandonment, and the uncanny through the creation of habitats and installations that materialize and dramatize nature in diverse ways. In his practice, nature is conceived as a process of ceaseless morphogenic modulation, a relentless onslaught in which bodies, as formed matters, are continuously created, transformed, and destroyed. The resultant work voids the difference between the natural and the artificial, challenges conventional systems of both scientific and artistic classification, upsets valuations of high and low culture, and suggests a worldview that strives to dislocate humans from their assumed position of centrality and superiority as knowers and actors in the world. Obsessive travel, documentation, and field work in distant regions, as well as the sacrificing of his own material compositions to environmental elements, remain integral to his codex of artistic procedures. He continues to experiment across institutions, venues, and outdoor sites locally and internationally and his work is held in major public and private collections around the world. Hooper Schneider lives in Los Angeles.

Learning Program

Play Sets: Renée Green

Saturday, April 26, 2025, 10:30 am
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Play Sets

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Event detailsSaturday, April 26, 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 April 26, Dia educators will focus on the work of Renée Green. 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.

Special Event

Hudson Valley Free Day

Sunday, April 27, 2025, 10 am–5 pm
Dia Beacon

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Event detailsSunday, April 27, 202510 am–5 pm Dia Beacon3 BeekmanBeacon, New York 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. To get tickets for Hudson Valley Free Day please fill out our Free Admission Request. Hudson Valley Free Days at Dia Beacon are made possible by Charlie Pohlad.

Learning Program

Play Sets: stanley brouwn

Sunday, April 27, 2025, 10:30 am
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Play Sets

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Event detailsSunday, April 27, 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 April 27, Dia educators will focus on the work of stanley brouwn. 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

Steffani Jemison with Leslie Cuyjet on Maren Hassinger and Senga Nengudi

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

Artists on Artists Lecture Series

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Event details Wednesday, April 30, 20256:30 pm Dia Chelsea 537 West 22nd Street New York, New York Free. Spaces are limited; register for the event here. Steffani Jemison was born in Berkeley, California, in 1981. Working across performance, text, and sculpture, Jemison investigates and complicates modernist histories through the concept of the Black vernacular. Recent solo presentations include Steffani Jemison: New Videos, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (2019); Bound, Greene Naftali, New York (2024); and Tumblers, Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève (2024). Recent group exhibitions include the 2019 Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of America Art, New York; Greater New York, MoMA PS1, Queens (2021); and Flight into Egypt: Black Artists and Ancient Egypt, 1876–Now, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (2024). Jemison is the author of several books including Truth and Greatness (2011), Sensus Plenior (2017), and A Rock, A River, A Street (2018), and contributed an essay to the exhibition catalog for Las Vegas Ikebana: Maren Hassinger and Senga Nengudi at the Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery, Reed College, Portland (2025). Jemison lives in Brooklyn. Leslie Cuyjet is a choreographer, dancer, and writer. Her layered, research-based events integrating video, text, and performance explore notions of Black embodiment within postmodernist histories of dance and movement. Her work has been featured at the Center for Performance Research, Brooklyn (2020); the Shed, New York (2021); and the Kitchen, New York (2021 and 2023), among others. With Jemison, Cuyjet presented her work Ephemeral Organ at the Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center at Rensselaer, Troy, New York (2024–25). Cuyjet lives in Brooklyn.

Book Launch

Delcy Morelos Book Launch

Friday, May 2, 2025, 6:30 pm
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Book Launches

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Event detailsFriday, May 2, 20256:30 pm Dia Chelsea537 West 22nd StreetNew York, New York Free. Spaces are limited; register here. Dia is proud to host artist Delcy Morelos and curators Alexis Lowry and Zuna Maza for a conversation around the recently published Delcy Morelos, the companion volume to the artist’s recent exhibition at Dia Chelsea, Delcy Morelos: El abrazo (The Embrace), and the first book published about her work in the United States. For more than a decade, Morelos has worked primarily with earth, creating immersive environments of geometrically abstract forms. Drawing on Indigenous cosmologies, her work explores the sustaining power of mud in its many forms, as a source of life and sustenance. This bilingual monograph approaches Morelos’s two soil-based installations, Cielo terrenal (2023) and El abrazo (2023), to explore the artist’s role in the history of Land art. The texts consider the natural materials used in her Dia commission and their sensory, spatial, and phenomenological impact. The volume also features a selection of stories sourced from Indigenous Colombian communities—Bará, Matapí, Tanimuca, M+n+ca, Uitoto N+pode, and Yucuna Kamejeyá—that underscore Morelos’s acute understanding of the sacred relationship between land and its inhabitants. Alexis Lowry is a curatorial director at Hauser & Wirth, New York. Formerly a curator at Dia, she organized Delcy Morelos: El abrazo. She has also served as curator of Brown University’s David Winton Bell Gallery in Providence, Rhode Island, and a project manager for Creative Time in New York. She is on the board of directors of the Triple Aught Foundation and the Subcommittee on Public Art at Brown University. Zuna Maza is the assistant curator at El Museo del Barrio, New York. She has held curatorial roles and fellowships at Dia Art Foundation, where she curated Delcy Morelos: El abrazo, as well as at the Museum of Modern Art and the Studio Museum in Harlem, all in New York. She received her MA from Hunter College in New York. Delcy Morelos was born in Tierralta, Colombia, in 1967. Morelos’s practice encompasses painting, installation, and sculpture. Over the last decade the artist has focused on large-scale site-specific installations, using soil, clay, natural fibers, and other organic materials. Morelos graduated from the Escuela de Bellas Artes de Cartagena, Colombia, in 1991. Recent solo presentations include those at NC-arte, Bogotá (2018); Röda Sten Konsthall, Gothenburg, Sweden (2018); Galería Santa Fe, Bogotá (2019); Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, Canada (2019); and Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires (2022). Recent group shows include Dum Som Jag (One as Another), Havremagasinet, Boden, Sweden (2016), and Sami Dáiddaguovddáš, Karasjok, Norway (2017); 45 Salón Nacional de Artistas: el revés de la trama (45th National Artists’ Salon: The Reverse of the Plot), Bogotá (2019); 59th Venice Biennale: The Milk of Dreams (2022); and the 5th Aichi Triennale: STILL ALIVE (2022). Her work is included in the collections of Banco de la República (Biblioteca Luis Ángel Arango); Fundación Gilberto Alzate Avendaño; Museo de Arte Moderno de Cartagena; and Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá. She lives in Bogotá.

Learning Program

Play Sets: Robert Ryman

Saturday, May 3, 2025, 10:30 am
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Play Sets

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Event detailsSaturday, May 3, 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 May 3, Dia educators will focus on the work of Robert Ryman. 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.