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Dutchess County Community Free Day
Saturday, April 11, 2009, 11am-4pm Dia:Beacon, Riggio Galleries
3 Beekman Street Beacon, New York 12508
845 440 0100 www.diaart.org
For Dia's series of Community Free Days, residents of Dutchess County are invited to visit Dia:Beacon for a day of special programs free of charge. Residents should present a valid driver's license, or other government-issued ID for free entry to the museum.
For program reservations, call 845 440 0100 x44 or email rsvp@diaart.org
12:00pm Welcome by Philippe Vergne, Director, Dia Art Foundation, in the forecourt of the museum.
12:15pm Gallery Talk: Building Dia:Beacon. Steven Evans, Assistant Director for Beacon, will discuss the transformation of Dia:Beacon from a former Nabisco box printing facility into an internationally acclaimed museum for Dia's collection that is listed on the State and National Registers of Historical Places. The talk will begin in the forecourt of the museum.
1:00pm Guided tours of Dia's collection with museum guides will begin in the Imi Knoebel galleries.
2:00pm Family Day: Line, Rhythm, Chance. Dia:Beacon educators will lead families on a guided exploration through the museum with movement-based learning that will conclude with activities in the Learning Lab. Family Day will begin in the Imi Knoebel galleries. (Open to children age six and above accompanied by an adult)
Community Free Days
For Dia's series of Community Free Days, residents of neighboring counties are invited to visit
Dia:Beacon free of charge on selected Saturdays throughout the year. The dates are chosen to alternate year-to-year, offering residents of each county an opportunity to experience the range of seasons at the museum. The dates coincide with "Second Saturday Beacon," a monthly city-wide arts and culture open house. Please bring a driver's license or other government-issued ID for entry to the museum. Upcoming Community Free days include Columbia County, June 13; Orange County, August 8; Putnam County, October 10; and Ulster County, December 12.
Image: Exterior view, Dia:Beacon, Riggio Galleries, 2003. Photo: ©Richard Barnes. Courtesy Dia Art Foundation.
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LAST CHANCE, Zoe Leonard: Derrotero at Dia at the Hispanic Society
Final Day, Sunday, April 12, 2009, 1-4pm
Dia at the Hispanic Society
Broadway between 155th and 156th Streets New York City
By subway take number 1 train to 157th Street and Broadway
212 989 5566 www.diaart.org
Admission is free
East Building Gallery, Zoe Leonard, Analogue
Hours: Tuesday-Saturday, 10am-4:30pm, Sunday 1-4:30pm
OPEN: Good Friday, April 10 and Easter Sunday, April 12
Main Building, Zoe Leonard, A Route through the Collection
Special holiday hours, week of April 6:
Tuesday-Thursday 10am - 4:30pm, Saturday, 10am - 4:30pm
PLEASE NOTE, THIS PART OF LEONARD'S EXHIBITION WILL BE CLOSED on Good Friday, April 10 and Easter Sunday, April 12
Dia Art Foundation presents Derrotero, an exhibition by New York-based artist Zoe Leonard, the second in a series of contemporary art projects commissioned by Dia for The Hispanic Society of America. Derrotero-taken from the Spanish word for itinerary, ship's route, diary of a journey, or collection of sea charts-reflects Leonard's interest in mapping and navigation. For this two-part presentation, Leonard has contextualized her monumental photographic work Analogue (1998-2007), shown in its entirety for the first time in New York, with A Route through the Collection, a selection of portolan charts and atlases from the Hispanic Society's exceptional library.
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 Fotomuseum Winterthur, in Winterthur, Switzerland, which traveled to the Reina Sofía in Madrid in winter 2008.
Funding
Dia's program at The Hispanic Society of America is generously supported by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs; New York City Councilmember Robert Jackson; Joshua Mack; Erica and Joseph Samuels; and Thea Westreich and Ethan Wagner.
Image: Zoe Leonard, Analogue, 1998-2007. Installation view from the exhibition "Zoe Leonard: Derrotero," Dia at the Hispanic Society of America, November 5, 2008-April 12, 2009. © the artist, Courtesy Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne. Photo: Bill Jacobson.
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April 16-October 19, 2009
Thursday-Monday, 11am-6pm
Dia:Beacon, Riggio Galleries
3 Beekman Street, Beacon, NY 12508
845 440 0100 www.diaart.org
Dia:Beacon, which is lit almost entirely by natural light via skylights, changes its public hours to coincide with seasonal changes in daylight.
For information about the "One-Day Getaways" discounted rail and admissions package for Dia:Beacon, visit Metro-North's website at http://www.mta.nyc.ny.us/mnr/html/getaways/outbound_diabeacon.htm
Image: West garden, Dia:Beacon, Riggio Galleries. Photo: Ken Goebel. Courtesy Dia Art Foundation.
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The Dan Flavin Art Institute Opens for 2009-2010 Season
Opening Thursday, April 23, 2009
The Dan Flavin Art Institute
Corwith Avenue off Main Street
Bridgehampton, New York
631 537 1476 www.diaart.org
April 23-October 18, 2009, Thursday-Sunday, 12pm-6pm
October 24, 2009-April 11, 2010, Saturday-Sunday, 12pm-6pm
Admission is free
Permanent installation of nine Dan Flavin works
Also on view "Imi Knoebel, Knife Cuts Part 2"
Established in 1983 as a permanent installation of Flavin's work, this renovated firehouse holds a permanent installation of nine works in fluorescent light created by the artist between 1963 and 1981, and a gallery for changing exhibitions. Planned by the artist for the second-floor gallery of the space, the permanent installation traces Flavin's practice from 1963-when he decided to work solely with standard fluorescent fixtures and tubes-to 1983 when the presentation was realized. In creating this exhibition, Flavin conceived of the sculptures and the architecture as a single, unified installation. By manipulating the formal, phenomenal, and referential characteristics of light, the installation asks viewers to consider a series of contrasts-between colors, intensities of light, structure and formlessness, the obvious and the mysterious, and the serious and the humorous.
Imi Knoebel, Knife Cuts Part 2, is the latest in a series of temporary exhibitions at the Dan Flavin Art Institute that has included works by Louise Bourgeois (1989), Andy Warhol (1987 and 1992), Fred Sandback (2004-2006), and John Chamberlain (2007). First shown in 1977 at Heiner Friedrich Galerie in Cologne, Imi Knoebel's Untitled, 1977, consists of vibrantly colored paper cut outs in oil and acrylic on paper. Imi Knoebel, Knife Cuts Part 1 was on view May 22-December 2008.
The Dan Flavin Art Institute is supported in part by David Zwirner Gallery.
Photo: (left) Exterior view, The Dan Flavin Art Institute, Bridgehampton, New York. Long-term installation. Photo: Florian Holzherr. (right) Installation view, The Dan Flavin Art Institute, Bridgehampton, New York. Long-term installation. Photo: Florian Holzherr.
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Janet Kraynak, Assistant Professor of Contemporary Art, New School University, will lecture on Bruce Nauman
Saturday, April 25, 2009, 1pm
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 gallerytalks@diaart.org.
Janet Kraynak is the Assistant Professor of Contemporary Art at New School University in New York. A specialist in postwar and contemporary art, she has published widely on topics such as performance, alternative media, feminism, participatory aesthetics and globalization. The editor of a book-length anthology of Bruce Nauman's writings and interviews (MIT Press, 2003), she is currently completing a critical re-evaluation of the artist's early work, entitled Reiterating Nauman.
Bruce Nauman was born in Fort Wayne, Indiana, in 1941. He acquired an M.F.A. from the University of California, Davis, in 1966. His debut show was at the Nicholas Wilder Gallery, Los Angeles, in 1966, and since then he has exhibited widely in North America and Europe, including contributions to Documentas 4 (1968), 5 (1972), and 7 (1982), in Kassel, Germany, and to the Whitney Biennials of 1984, 1991, and 1997. Several major exhibitions of his work toured, principally in Europe, in the 1980s, and in 1994-95 the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C., organized a retrospective. Recent exhibitions include "Elusive Signs: Bruce Nauman Works with Light," organized by the Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee and "A Rose Has No Teeth: Bruce Nauman in the 1960s," organized by the University of California's Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive. In 2009, Nauman will represent the United States at the 53rd Venice Biennale. Since 1979, Nauman has lived on a ranch near Galisteo, New Mexico, where, in addition to continuing his studio practice, he breeds horses.
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: Bruce Nauman, Mapping the Studio I (Fat Chance John Cage), 2001. Installation at Dia:Beacon, Beacon, NY. Lannan Foundation; long-term loan. Photo: Stuart Tyson.
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