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Yve-Alain Bois and Benjamin
H. D. Buchloh on François Morellet

Saturday, February 3, 2018, 2:30 pm
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Event DetailsSaturday, February 3, 2018, 2:30 pm Dia:Chelsea535 West 22nd Street, 5th FloorNew York City This event has reached capacity. Advance reservations are no longer available. Walk-up tickets will be available at the door, subject to availability. Dia Art Foundation presents a conversation between prominent scholars Yve-Alain Bois and Benjamin H. D. Buchloh. Adjunct curator of François Morellet, Béatrice Gross, moderates the conversation. Yve-Alain Bois is Professor of Art History in the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey. Bois is the author of Painting as Model (MIT Press, 1991), an editor of the journal October, and coeditor of Art Since 1900: Modernism, Antimodernism, Postmodernism (Thames & Hudson, 2004) with Benjamin H. D. Buchloh, Hal Foster, and Rosalind Krauss. In 2016 October published an anthology of François Morellet’s writings along with Bois’s “François Morellet/Sol LeWitt: A Case Study Revisited.” He is currently working on the catalogue raisonné of Ellsworth Kelly’s paintings and sculpture. Benjamin H. D. Buchloh is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Modern Art at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Buchloh is the author of Neo-Avantgarde and Culture Industry: Essays on European and American Art from 1955 to 1975 (MIT Press, 2001) and Formalism and Historicity: Models and Methods in Twentieth-Century Art (MIT Press, 2015), as well an editor of the journal October and a contributor at the magazine Artforum. Along with Yve-Alain Bois, Hal Foster, and Rosalind Krauss, he is the coeditor of Art Since 1900: Modernism, Antimodernism, Postmodernism (Thames & Hudson, 2004). In 2007 Buchloh received the Venice Biennale’s Golden Lion Award for Contemporary Art History and Criticism. He has previously written essays for Dia on artists James Coleman and Thomas Hirschhorn. This program is made possible by support from Lisa and Tom Blumenthal. Symposia and other DiaTalks are part of the Sackler Institute at Dia Art Foundation. Public programs at Dia:Chelsea are supported in part by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

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François Morellet Symposium

Saturday, March 3, 2018, 11 am–4 pm
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Event DetailsSaturday, March 3, 2018, 11 am–3:30 pm Dia:Chelsea535 West 22nd Street, 5th FloorNew York City $5 for Dia members; $10 general admission; $8 admission for students and seniors Advance ticket purchases recommended. Tickets are also available for purchase at the door, subject to availability. In conjunction with the exhibition of works by François Morellet, Dia Art Foundation hosts a group of scholars, curators, artists, and writers for a symposium on Morellet’s multifaceted oeuvre and extensive career. Speakers reflect on his practice from a diverse array of perspectives. Participants include Alexander Alberro, John Armleder, Béatrice Gross, Valerie Hillings, and Daniel Levin Becker. The symposium will conclude with a panel discussion and question-and-answer session with all of the participants. Symposium TopicsAlexander Alberro: “Morellet and 1950s Geometric Abstraction in Brazil”Béatrice Gross: “Geometry in Motion: Morellet’s Style Versatile”Valerie Hillings: “Six Heads Are Better Than One: François Morellet and the Groupe de Recherche d’Art Visuel (1960–68)”Daniel Levin Becker: “Morellet: Wordplay, Constraint, Chance, and the Ouvroir de littérature potentielle” This program is made possible by support from Lisa and Tom Blumenthal. Symposia and other DiaTalks are part of the Sackler Institute at Dia Art Foundation. Public programs at Dia:Chelsea are supported in part by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

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