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November 18 to December 18, 2018

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A.K. Burns on Nancy Holt

Tuesday, November 27, 2018, 6:30 pm
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Event DetailsTuesday, November 27, 2018, 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 The event is sold out. Advance reservations are no longer available. A.K. Burns was born in Capitola, California, in 1975. She received her MFA from the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, in 2010, and is a professor at the City University of New York’s Hunter College and at New York University. Burns’s work has recently been featured in exhibitions at the Harvard Art Museum in Cambridge, Massachusetts (2018), New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York (2017), and Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (2016). Her collaborations with Katherine Hubbard were performed in New York at the Whitney Museum of American Art (2015), Metropolitan Museum of Art (2015), and Brooklyn Museum (2012). Community Action Center (2010), her video collaboration with A. L. Steiner, has been screened at numerous venues including the Museum of Modern Art in New York and Tate Modern in London. Burnsco founded W.A.G.E. (Working Artists and the Greater Economy) in 2008, and cofounded and coedited Randy from 2010 to 2013. She is the recipient of a Radcliffe Institute Fellowship at Harvard University (2016–17) and a Creative Capital Foundation Visual Arts Award (2015), among other awards. Burns lives and works in New York.

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Andy Warhol’s Impact on Contemporary Art and Design

Wednesday, November 28, 2018, 6:30 pm
205 West 39th Street, New York City

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Event DetailsWednesday, November 28, 2018 Calvin Klein, Inc.205 West 39th StreetNew York City Jessica Morgan, Dia Art Foundation’s Nathalie de Gunzburg Director, moderates a panel discussion on Andy Warhol. The panelists include Sandra Brant, George Condo, and Raf Simons, who have all engaged personally with Warhol or otherwise been inspired by his work and larger-than-life persona. Together the artists and creative figures discuss Warhol’s wide-ranging and lasting impact on contemporary art and design. The event is sold-out. Advance reservations are no longer available. Sandra Brant, who collaborated with Warhol to create Interview magazine, has been a cultural bellwether since the 1970s. Brant worked with Warhol on the film L’Amour (1973) as well as several art publishing projects. As a personal friend of the artist, she was also captured in a number of his screenprints. Following Warhol’s death in 1987, Brant Publications purchased Interview. Brant worked at the magazine serving as chief executive officer, president, and publisher from 1989 to 2008. Following her departure from Interview in 2008, she was named an international editor at Vanity Fair alongside her then-partner of over twenty-five years, Ingrid Sischy. Brant joined Dia’s Board of Trustees in 1989 and is Dia’s longest-standing trustee. George Condo was born in 1957 in Concord, New Hampshire, and studied art history and music theory at the University of Massachusetts in Lowell. In 2011 the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York presented aretrospective of his work, Mental States, which traveled to Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam, Hayward Gallery in London, and Schirn Kunsthalle in Frankfurt. In 2016 Condo’s work was the feature of a museum-wide exhibition, Confrontation, at the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. He was also the subject of a major retrospective of works on paper titled The Way I Think at the Phillips Collection in Washington, DC, in 2017, which traveled to the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark. Condo joined Dia’s Board of Trustees in 2015. Raf Simons serves as the Chief Creative Officer of Calvin Klein, Inc. In this role, Simons leads the creative strategy of the CALVIN KLEIN brand globally across the designer, contemporary, bridge, jeans, underwear, and home categories in addition to overseeing all aspects of Global Marketing and Communications, Visual Creative Services, and Store Design. Simons was born and raised in Belgium, where he later studied and obtained a degree in industrial and furniture design. In 1995 he launched his eponymous line, Raf Simons. In 2005 he was appointed creative director of Jil Sander, where he served at the helm for seven years. Simons assumed the position of creative director at Dior in 2012, a position he held until 2015. Simons lives and works in New York City.

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Donna De Salvo on Andy Warhol

Saturday, December 1, 2018, 2 pm
205 West 39th Street, New York City

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Event DetailsSaturday, December 1, 2018, 2 pm Calvin Klein, Inc. 205 West 39th StreetNew York City Free for Dia members; $10 general admission; $6 admission for students and seniors The event is sold-out. Advance tickets are no longer available. Donna De Salvo joined the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, in 2004 and was appointed as the museum’s first chief curator in 2006, a post that she held until 2015. With the opening of the Whitney’s new building, De Salvo assumed the role of Deputy Director for International Initiatives and Senior Curator. As deputy director and senior curator, she organizes exhibitions and collection displays, codirects the painting and sculpture committee, oversees the Andy Warhol Film Project, and leads the museum’s efforts to define and communicate an expanded notion of art in the United States, both domestically and internationally. Recent exhibitions that she has co-organized include Andy Warhol—From A to B and Back Again (2018–19), Hélio Oiticica: To Organize Delirium (2017), Open Plan: Michael Heizer (2016), Open Plan: Steve McQueen (2016), and America Is Hard to See (2015). Before joining the Whitney, De Salvo held curatorial positions at Dia Art Foundation in New York, Tate Modern in London, Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, and Wexner Center for the Arts at the Ohio State University in Columbus.

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Lyle Ashton Harris on Andy Warhol

Tuesday, December 11, 2018, 6:30 pm
205 West 39th Street, New York City

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Event DetailsTuesday, December 11, 2018, 6:30 pm Calvin Klein, Inc. 205 West 39th StreetNew York City Free for Dia members; $10 general admission; $6 admission for students and seniors The event is sold out. Advance reservations are no longer available. Lyle Ashton Harris was born in New York in 1965. He received his MFA from the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia in 1990 and graduated from the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program in New York in 1992. Harris is the recipient of a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship (2016) and David C. Driskell Prize (2014), among other awards. His work has been shown at numerous institutions and biennials, including the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art in Ridgefield, Connecticut, Busan Biennial in South Korea, Corcoran Gallery of Artin Washington, DC, São Paulo Biennial, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, Venice Biennale, Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, and Whitney Biennial in New York. Recent solo exhibitions have taken place at Participant Inc. in New York (2018), Studio Museum in Harlem (2011), and Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art (2008). His publication, Lyle Ashton Harris: Today I Shall Judge Nothing That Occurs, was published by Aperture in 2017. Harris is a professor at New York University and lives and works in New York.

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