Please Join Us for Upcoming Events:
February 21 Gallery Talk, Lynne Cooke on Imi Knoebel
February 22 Zoe Leonard in Conversation with Lynne Cooke
February 23 Artists on Artists Lecture, Tony Feher on Dan Flavin
February 28 Gregg Bordowitz on Zoe Leonard at the Hispanic Society
March 1 St. Luke's Chamber Ensemble at Dia:Beacon
March 2 Artists on Artists Lecture, Sharon Hayes on Merce Cunningham
March 3 Lynne Cooke in Conversation with Kenneth Baker at 192 Books
 
 
Lynne Cooke, curator at Dia Art Foundation and chief curator and deputy director at the Reina Sofia, Madrid, will lecture on Imi Knoebel
 
Imi Knoebel, 24 Colors- for Blinky, 1977

Saturday, February 21, 2009, *12:30pm

Dia:Beacon
Riggio Galleries
3 Beekman Street Beacon, New York 12508
845 440 0100 www.diaart.org
 
Free with museum admission.
For reservations call 845 440 0100 x44 or [email protected]
 
Lynne Cooke
was appointed curator at Dia Art Foundation, New York in 1991. In 2008, she became chief curator and deputy director at the Reina Sofia in Madrid. Co-curator of the 1991 Carnegie International, and Artistic Director of the 1996 Sydney Biennale she has also curated exhibitions in numerous venues in North America, Europe and elsewhere. She has been on the faculty for Curatorial Studies at Bard College in addition to teaching as a visiting scholar in the Graduate Fine Art departments of several universities. Among her numerous publications are recent essays on the works of Rodney Graham, Jorge Pardo, Francis Al�s, Richard Serra, Agnes Martin, and Zoe Leonard. 
 
Imi Knoebel was born in Dessau, Germany, in 1940. From 1963 to 1971, he was a student of Joseph Beuys at the Kunstakademie D�sseldorf. His first exhibition, IMI + IMI, with Imi Giese, a fellow student of Beuys's, was held in Copenhagen in 1968. Since that time, Knoebel has exhibited his works in Documentas 5 (1972), 6 (1977), 7 (1982), and 8 (1987), and at Sonsbeek (1971). In 1987 Knoebel oversaw an installation of his own work, as well as that of Beuys and Blinky Palermo, for the inaugural exhibitions at Dia's galleries on West 22nd Street in New York City. In 1996-97, a retrospective of his work traveled throughout Europe, to such venues as Haus der Kunst, Munich; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; and Institut Valenci� d'Art Modern, Centre Julio Gonz�lez, Valencia. In summer 2009, he will have a major retrospective at the Hamburger Bahnhof and the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin. His monumental cycle, 24 Colors-for Blinky, 1977, is currently on view at Dia:Beacon. He lives and works in D�sseldorf.
 
Gallery Talks at Dia:Beacon is a series that takes place the last Saturday of every month at 1pm and is free with museum admission. Focused on the work of the artists in Dia's collection, the one-hour presentations are given by curators, art historians, and writers, and take place in museum's galleries.

Image: Imi Knoebel, 24 Colors- for Blinky, 1977. Installation view at Dia:Beacon, Beacon, NY. Dia Art Foundation, New York. Photo: Bill Jacobson.
 

 
Zoe Leonard in Conversation with Lynne Cooke at Dia:Beacon
 
 Zoe Leonard, You see I am here after all, 2008
 
Sunday, February 22, 2009, 12:30pm
 
Dia:Beacon
Riggio Galleries
3 Beekman Street, Beacon, NY 12508
845 440 0100
www.diaart.org

Free with museum admission.  For reservations call 845 440 0100 x44 or [email protected].
 
A series of conversations with artists and other members of the art community. These conversations create a unique forum in which an open dialogue is created.
 
Zoe Leonard was born in 1961 in Liberty, New York, and now lives and works in New York City. She has exhibited internationally since 1990, including recent solo presentations at the Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio (2007); Villa Arson, Nice, France (2007); Paula Cooper Gallery, New York City (2003); Center for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw (1999); Centre National de la Photographie, Paris (1998); Kunsthalle Basel (1997); and the Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago (1993). In 2007, Leonard was the subject of a 20-year career retrospective at the Kunstmuseum Winterthur, in Winterthur, Switzerland, which traveled to the Reina Sof�a in Madrid in winter 2008.
 
Image: Zoe Leonard, You see I am here after all, 2008. Installation at Dia:Beacon, Beacon, NY. Courtesy the artist and Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne. Photo: Bill Jacobson, New York.
 

 
Artists on Artist Lecture Series, Tony Feher on Dan Flavin
 
Tony Feher, Untitled, circa 1992Dan Flavin, Installation at Dia:Beacon

Monday, February 23, 2009, 6:30pm

Dia Art Foundation
535 West 22nd Street, 5th Floor
New York, NY 10011
212 989 5566 
www.diaart.org
 
Admission for the lecture is $6 general; $3 for students, seniors, and Dia members. For reservations call 212 293 5583 or
[email protected]

 
New York-based artist Tony Feher was born in 1956 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Among his recent one-person shows are exhibitions at the Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis (2007); Chinati Foundation, Marfa, Texas (2005); La Fundaci�n La Caixa, Lleida, Spain (2004); and University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley (2002).
 
Dan Flavin was born in 1933 in New York City, where he later studied art history at the New School for Social Research (1956) and Columbia University (1957-59). His first solo show was at the Judson Gallery, New York, in 1961. Flavin made his first work with electric light that same year, and he began using commercial fluorescent bulbs in 1963. Major exhibitions of Flavin's work include those at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (1967), the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa (1969), and the Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden (1989). In 1983, Dia opened the Dan Flavin Art Institute in Bridgehampton, New York, a permanent exhibition designed by the artist in a converted firehouse and open to the public each summer. In 1992 Flavin created a monumental installation for the reopening of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. He died in 1996, leaving designs for a light installation for Milan's Chiesa Rossa that was realized posthumously with Dia's support. Flavin's last completed work, untitled (1996) occupies the stairwell at Dia's exhibition space in Chelsea.
 
Funding
Made possible by a grant from Art for Art's Sake, New York, and by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, this series, established in 2001, highlights the work of contemporary artists from the perspective of their colleagues and peers, and focuses on artists in Dia's collection and exhibition programs.

Images: (left) Tony Feher, Untitled, circa 1992. Glass jars with metal screw lids, red, green, blue and yellow marbles. overall dimensions 7 x 9 1/2 x 2 1/4 inches, 17.8 x 24.1 x 5.7 cm. Artist�s certificate. (right) Dan Flavin. "monument" to V. Tatlin XI, 1964; "monument" to V. Tatlin, 1966; "monument" to V. Tatlin, 1966-69; and untitled, 1970. Installation at Dia:Beacon, Beacon, NY. � Estate of Dan Flavin/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Bill Jacobson.

 
 
Gregg Bordowitz Discusses Zoe Leonard: Derrotero at the Hispanic Society
 
Zoe Leonard, Analogue, 1998-2007. C-prints and gelatin silver prints
 
Saturday, February 28, 2009, 4pm
 
Dia at the Hispanic Society of America
Broadway between 155th and 156th Streets, NYC
Take 1 train to 157th Street and Broadway
212 989 5566 www.diaart.org
Admission is free.
 
For reservations call 212 293 5582 or [email protected].
 
Gregg Bordowitz discusses Zoe Leonard's project at the Hispanic Society delivering a talk titled "The Problem of Belief in Art."
 
Gregg Bordowitz is a writer, film and video maker. His films, including Fast Trip Long Drop (1993), A Cloud In Trousers (1995), The Suicide  (1996), and Habit (2001) have been widely shown in festivals, museums, movie theaters and broadcast internationally. A collection of his essays, titled The AIDS Crisis Is Ridiculous and Other Writings 1986-2003, was published by MIT Press in the fall of 2004. For this collection, Bordowitz received the 2006 Frank Jewitt Mather Award from the College Art Association.  In addition, he has received a Rockefeller Intercultural Arts Fellowship and a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship, among other grants and awards.  Bordowitz is a member of the faculty of the Film/Video/New Media Department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and he is on the faculty of the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program.
 
Image: Zoe Leonard, Analogue, 1998-2007. C-prints and gelatin silver prints. Variable dimensions. Courtesy the artist and Galerie Capitain, Cologne. Photo credit: Bill Jacobson Studio, New York. Installation view from the exhibition "Zoe Leonard: Derrotero," Dia at the Hispanic Society of America. November 5, 2008-April 12, 2009.
 

St. Luke's Chamber Ensemble Performs at Dia:Beacon
 
St. Luke's Chamber Ensemble, performance at Dia:Beacon, 2005

Sunday, March 1, 2009, 2pm

Dia:Beacon, Riggio Galleries
3 Beekman Street, Beacon, NY 12508
845 440 0100 www.diaart.org
 
$35 general admission, $25 members, $10 students, children under 12 are free.
For information and tickets, call St. Luke's at 212 594 6100 or visit www.OSLmusic.org.
Tickets are also available at the door on the day of the performance only.

Clash Tango
 
Exploring the clash and fusion of South American folk traditions and western classical chamber music, this varied program features works by Latin American composers influenced by the indigenous music and dance of Argentina, Brazil, Cuba, and Peru.

GOLIJOV Last Round for string nonet
PEREIRA Suite Nordestina for string quartet
FRANK Cuatro Bosquejos Pre-Incaicos for flute and cello*
D'RIVERA Wapango for string quartet
LOPES-GAVIL�N Mi Menor Conga for string quartet
PIAZZOLLA La Muerte del Angel for flute, clarinet, string quartet and bass
GOLIJOV Lullaby and Doina for flute, clarinet, string quartet and bass
VILLA-LOBOS Piano Trio No. 1 in C minor
*OSL commission
 Image: St. Luke's Chamber Ensemble, performance at Dia:Beacon, Beacon, NY.
 
 
 
Artists on Artists Lecture Series, Sharon Hayes on Merce Cunningham
 
Sharon Hayes, "Everything Else Has Failed! ...", 2007Beacon Events, 2008. Performance at Dia:Beacon, Beacon, NY 
 
Monday, March 2, 2009, 6:30pm

Dia Art Foundation
535 West 22nd Street, 5th Floor
New York, NY 10011
212 989 5566  www.diaart.org
 
Admission for the lecture is $6 general; $3 for students, seniors, and Dia members. For reservations call 212 293 5583 or [email protected].

 
Born in 1970, Sharon Hayes lives and works in New York. Her recent solo exhibitions include shows at the Warsaw Museum of Art, Warsaw, Poland (2008); a collaborative project at the Tate Modern, London (2008); The New Museum for Contemporary Art, New York (2007); Art in General, New York (2005); and P.S.1 Center for Contemporary Art, New York (2001).
 
Merce Cunningham, one of the most influential figures in modern dance, presented his first New York solo concert with composer John Cage in April 1944. He established the Merce Cunningham Dance Company at Black Mountain College, in North Carolina in 1953, and has since choreographed nearly 200 works for MCDC. Many of these were created in collaboration with visual artists including Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, Bruce Nauman, and Andy Warhol. MCDC always performs with live music, and since 1991 Mr. Cunningham has used the computer program DanceForms in all of his choreography.
 
Funding
Made possible by a grant from Art for Art's Sake, New York, and by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, this series, established in 2001, highlights the work of contemporary artists from the perspective of their colleagues and peers, and focuses on artists in Dia's collection and exhibition programs.


Images: (left) Sharon Hayes, "Everything Else Has Failed! Don't You Think It's Time for Love," 2007, documentation of performance, photo by Andrea Geyer. (right) Beacon Events, 2008. Performance at Dia:Beacon, Beacon, NY. Choreography: Merce Cunningham. Photo: Anna Finke.
 

Lynne Cooke in Conversation with Kenneth Baker on his book "The Lightning Field" at 192 Books
 
Tuesday, March 3, 2009, 7pm

192 Books
192 Tenth Avenue at 21st Street, NYC
For reservations call 212 255 4022
 
Walter De Maria's The Lightning Field (1977) is one of the 20th century's most significant works of land art. Situated in a remote area of desert in southwestern New Mexico, it comprises 400 polished, stainless-steel poles (spaced 220 feet apart) installed in a grid measuring one mile by one kilometer. A sculpture to be explored on foot, The Lightning Field is intended to be experienced over an extended period of time. Critic Kenneth Baker visited The Lightning Field numerous times over the course of the past 30 years in order to write this text. Inspired and challenged by this remarkable artwork, Baker speculates on the course of our contemporary human condition. But, rather than building on ideas in narrative sequence, he deploys quotation to affect multiple perspectives and points of view. Baker's citations and elegantly crafted prose are arrayed - in a metaphorical parallel to De Maria's choreographing of the vast landscape of the American Southwest - to create a compelling text. "The Lightning Field" is published by Yale University Press, 2008.
 
Lynne Cooke is the curator at Dia Art Foundation and chief curator and deputy director at the Reina Sofia, Madrid. Kenneth Baker is an art critic for the San Francisco Chronicle.


 
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