Dia Talks

DIA-CFD-July8-2017-182 — Photo: Eva Deitch
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Building upon Dia's Gallery Talks program, this series brings together leading scholars, curators, and writers to consider the work of a single artist currently on view at Dia, in the form of lectures, discussions, and symposia.

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Jessica Vaughn in Conversation with Stephen Kwok and Alexis Lowry on Charlotte Posenenske

Saturday, October 8, 2022, 2 pm, Dia Beacon
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Hassinger, installation view, 2021 — Dia Talks

A Conversation with Maren Hassinger, Donna De Salvo, and Christina Mossaides Strassfield

August 21, 2021, 12 pm, Offsite
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Screen Shot 2021-06-16 at 12.32.51 PM — Dia Talks

Lucy Raven in Conversation with Lucy R. Lippard and Alexis Lowry

Tuesday, June 22, 5 pm, Dia Online
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Mario Merz, <em>Is space bent or straight?</em>, 1973. Collezione Merz, Turin. Installation view, Dia Beacon, Riggio Galleries, Beacon, New York, 2020. © Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/SIAE, Rome. Photo: Bill Jacobson Studio, New York, courtesy Dia Art Foundation, New York — Dia Talks

A Conversation on Mario and Marisa Merz with Teresa Kittler and Matilde Guidelli-Guidi

Thursday, March 25, 2021, 6 pm, Dia Online
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Jill Magid, Yellow Cereal — Dia Talks

Jill Magid in Conversation with Nicholas Fox Weber

Tuesday, March 9, 2021, 12 pm, Dia Online
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ex1972mm_art_001 copy — Dia Talks

A Conversation on Mario Merz at the Walker Art Center with Vincenzo de Bellis and Matilde Guidelli-Guidi

Thursday, February 25, 2021, 6 pm, Dia Online
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Merz_installation view, 2020 — Dia Talks

Manuel Borja-Villel in Conversation with Matilde Guidelli-Guidi on Mario Merz

Thursday, January 28, 2021, 12 pm, Dia Online
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lucas (1) — Dia Talks

Artist Web Projects: 25th Anniversary Series

Saturday, January 16, 2021, 12 pm, Dia Online
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Fantastic Prayers (detail), 1995 — Dia Talks

Conversation with Constance DeJong on Fantastic Prayers Moderated by Rebecca Cleman and Karen Kelly

December 17, 2020, 7 pm, Dia Online
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Abbas and Abou-Rahme, Postscript: after everything is extracted, part of May amnesia never kiss us o — Dia Talks

Artist Web Project Launch Event

December 15, 2020, 5 pm, Dia Online
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ArtistsonArtistsRobertSmithson — Dia Talks

Artists on Robert Smithson Book Launch

December 8, 2020, 5 pm, Dia Online
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MAG_installation view — Dia Talks

A Conversation with Jill Magid, Matilde Guidelli-Guidi, and Justine Ludwig

October 28, 2020, 5 pm, Dia Online
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Barbara Bloom, Half Full — Half Empty — Dia Talks

Barbara Bloom in Conversation with Kelly Kivland

October 27, 2020, 5 pm, Dia Online
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Four fluorescent geometric forms occupy a dark room. On the back wall there is a vertical magenta rectangle leaned against it and a purple square painting with a small, neon green piece of draftwood floating off-center. In the back corner there is a vertical green rectangle leaned against it. All three forms are under a line of violet fluorescent lights. To the right is a large horizontal magenta rectangle with dark brushstrokes on wooden stilts. — Dia Talks

Artist Walk-Through with Jacqueline Humphries

Sunday, March 8, 2020, 12 and 2 pm, Dia Bridgehampton
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White powder covers the wooden floor of an industrial space. Purple and gray objects are arranged at the far end of the space. — Dia Talks

Barry Le Va in Conversation with James Meyer

Saturday, February 8, 2020, 2 pm, Dia Beacon
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Bold red measurements run the length of a massive white wall that is interrupted by a doorway opening leading into another large space. The visible measurements read 9' 8 — Dia Talks

Mel Bochner in Conversation with Alexis Lowry and James Meyer

Saturday, February 8, 2020, 11:30 am, Dia Beacon
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Two massive swathes of multicolored canvas are tied at various points and strung up from the ceiling of an airy, bright, white room. The canvases are painted and splattered with an array of vibrant, pastel, and metallic colors. The artwork floats above the floor. The swathe of canvas in the foreground closely hugs the wall and the canvas in the background arcs outwards with a corner pinned to the wall. — Dia Talks

A Conversation between Jessica Bell Brown and Eric N. Mack on Sam Gilliam

Saturday, November 23, 2019, 2 pm, Dia Beacon
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Large, smooth, curved wooden shapes and cubes abutt and pile atop each other in the center of a room, with wooden panels and empty frames leaning on the walls, all stained a reddish brown. — Dia Talks

Johannes Stüttgen on Imi Knoebel

Saturday, October 5, 2019, 2 pm, Dia Beacon
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A vertical fluorescent green rectangle leans against the corner of a dark room. — Dia Talks

Jacqueline Humphries in Conversation with Rachel Harrison, Jessica Morgan, and Charline von Heyl

Friday, August 9, 2019, 6 pm, Parrish Art Museum
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Images of sculptures by Charlotte Posenenske in Dia Beacon — Screening

An Evening of Screenings in Conjunction with Charlotte Posenenske: Work in Progress

Thursday, July 11, 2019, 6:30 pm, Dia Chelsea
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<p>Photo: Eva Deitch</p> — Dia Talks

Posenenske Sessions

Fridays, May 31–June 21, 2019, 6 pm, Dia Beacon
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A vertically oriented, rectangular, white-and-brown work on paper is placed near the ceiling and stretches along a white wall down to a wooden floor. Next to it is a horizontally oriented, rectangular, white, brown, and black work on paper that is placed on the wall just above the floor. A plus sign is placed on the wall between the two works on paper. — Dia Talks

Evangelia Antonakos on Dorothea Rockburne

Saturday, May 18, 2019, 2 pm, Dia Beacon
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Two identical yellow, rectangular-gridded structures touch a white wall. The left structure sits on the groun and leans against the wall. The right structure hangs on the wall. — Dia Talks

Rita McBride and Ulrich Lehmann on Charlotte Posenenske

Saturday, March 9, 2019, 2 pm, Dia Beacon
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Nancy Holt Symposium

Saturday, February 9, 2019, 10 am–5 pm, Dia Chelsea

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A large, concrete tube oculus looks out onto a desert basin, a faraway mountain range, and a clear blue sky. The tube has various sized circles drilled through the concrete in a constellation pattern and outside light casts into the space. — Dia Talks

Nancy Holt: Zeroing In

Screening in collaboration with Electronic Arts Intermix

Thursday, January 31, 2019, 6:30 pm, Dia Chelsea
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ROC_Egyptian Painting: Stele, 1980 — Dia Talks

Robert Storr on Dorothea Rockburne

Saturday, January 26, 2019, 2 pm, Dia Beacon
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WAR_installation view_205 W 39th Street — Dia Talks

Donna De Salvo on Andy Warhol

Saturday, December 1, 2018, 2 pm, 205 West 39th Street, New York City
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WAR_installation view_205 W 39th Street — Dia Talks

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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A square four by four grid of shiney dark textuerd tiles hangs on a white gallery wall. The bottom edge touches the gallery's wood floor. On the adjacent wall hangs a larger light grey painting with small white squares painted in the canvas's four corners. — Dia Talks

Mary Corse: A Symposium

Friday, October 12, 2018, 1–5:30 pm,
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2005 9-08 Spiral Jetty — Dia Talks

Bonnie Baxter and Jaimi Butler on Robert Smithson

Saturday, October 6, 2018, 2 pm, Dia Beacon
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A square, black painting of sixteen glazed, ceramic titles is placed on a white wall above a wooden floor. — Dia Talks

Kellie Jones on “Women and the Dreamwork”

Saturday, September 15, 2018, 2 pm, Dia Beacon
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SON_Installation view — Dia Talks

Keith Sonnier in Conversation with Nate Lowman and Adam McEwen

Friday, July 20, 2018, 6 pm, Parrish Art Museum
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Two vintage Chevrolet pickup trucks, one red, one black, in an open gallery space with a row of large windows in the background. Placed vertically in the trucks' flatbeds are circular, square, and triangular polished-stainless-steel rods. — Dia Talks

Brett Littman on Walter De Maria

Saturday, June 9, 2018, 2 pm, Dia Beacon
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A thin, neon white string of fluorescent light hangs from the exposed ceiling in two strands from a single point. Two paintings of identical geometric subject matter but different scale hang on the wall with a doorway between them. — Dia Talks

François Morellet Symposium

Saturday, March 3, 2018, 11 am–4 pm, Dia Chelsea
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Three square paintings with black-and-white geometric subject matter hang on a white wall. In the background a square mirror sits in a corner and leans forward against a vertical steel bar. — Dia Talks

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

Saturday, February 3, 2018, 2:30 pm, Dia Chelsea
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Lars Nittve and Jessica Morgan on Walter De Maria

Saturday, January 20, 2018, 2 pm, Dia Beacon

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Three-Cornered_Desire (1) — Dia Talks

Thomas Crow on John Chamberlain

Saturday, October 14, 2017, 2:30 pm, Dia Beacon
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Two colorful abstract paintings hang on two adjoining white walls. — Dia Talks

Jessica Morgan with Mary Heilmann and Laura Owens

Thursday, August 24, 2017, 5 pm, Parrish Art Museum
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STU_Sayreville Strata Quartet 1976 — Dia Talks

Anna Lovatt on Michelle Stuart

Saturday, July 8, 2017, 2:30 pm, Dia Beacon
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Two mannequins stand side-by-side and look to the right. The left mannequin is a woman with short coiffed hair and make-up. The right mannequin is an older man with a greying hair whose hairline receeds to the middle of his head and a neatly trimmed mutton chop beard with no goatee. Both busts are wearing white, grey, and red quarter-zip hoodies. The background wall is completely covered in framed images. — Dia Talks

Alex Bacon on Hanne Darboven

Saturday, June 24, 2017, 2:30 pm, Dia Chelsea
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François Chaignaud and Cecilia Bengolea with Kelly Kivland

Monday, May 15, 2017, 6:30 pm,

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Truitt, Installation view — Dia Talks

Alexandra Truitt and James Meyer on Anne Truitt

Saturday, May 13, 2017, 2 pm, Dia Beacon
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The top half of a square-shaped, grey robot angles forward. Its eyes and mouth are horizontal rectanglar holes and its nose is a protruding triangular prism. The visible leftside of the head has a circle hole in the place of an ear. The top of head has a protruding lit up lightbulb. The background wall is completely covered in framed images. — Dia Talks

Christophe Cherix on Hanne Darboven

Saturday, April 22, 2017, 2:30 pm, Dia Chelsea
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don_stahl_dia_Suga-6 — Dia Talks

Alexandra Munroe on Kishio Suga

Saturday, April 8, 2017, 2:30 pm, Dia Chelsea
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Small aluminum tower on left side of an aluminum platform. — Dia Talks

Jane McFadden on Walter De Maria

Saturday, January 14, 2017, 2:30 pm, Dia Beacon
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A pile of dirt and moss is strewn with strips of felt and metal rods above a cement floor. — Dia Talks

Jeffrey Weiss on Robert Morris

Saturday, October 8, 2016, 2:30 pm, Dia Beacon
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