Lessons in the Sky: A Filmic Tribute to Audubon
Organized by Andrea Grover
Tuesday, June 16, 2009, 8:30pm
Free admission. For reservations, call 212 293 5582 or Tuesdays@diaart.org.
All programs are outdoors, please visit www.diaart.org for inclement weather updates.
Dia at the Hispanic Society
Audubon Terrace, Broadway between
155th and 156th streets, New York City
By subway take number 1 train to 157th and Broadway
John James Audubon's New York farm, Minniesland, once occupied 40 wilderness acres of what is now the Washington Heights Neighborhood in Upper Manhattan. This cinematic tribute to the universal pastime of bird watching is a nod to the farmland that once comprised this region, Audubon's life work with birds, and the timeless current of artists' studies of wildlife. This screening will showcase artist-made short films and videos on birds and natural history in a variety of genres including performance, documentary, experimental, animation, audio works, and found footage. Includes works by Simone Bennett, Klara Hobza, Nina Katchadourian, Emily Kuehn, Julia Oldham, and Dana Sherwood and the Black Forest Fancies, among others.
Andrea Grover is the founder of Aurora Picture Show, a nonprofit center for film, video, and new media in Houston, Texas. Grover dedicates her time to curating, promoting, and writing about artist-made film and video works, live cinema, and real-time video performance. Among her curatorial projects are a traveling screening of works by the late video pioneer, activist, and iconoclast Andy Mann (2005); a film screening, co-curated with the late Diane Shamash of Minetta Brook, New York, which featured films by James Benning, Peter Hutton, and Andy Warhol (2006); "Phantom Captain: Art and Crowdsourcing," at apexart, New York (2006); and a series of screenings and public lectures for the exhibition "No Zoning" at the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston. Presently she hosts a biannual screening series called Menil Movies, highlighting films and videos from the archive of The Menil Collection, Houston, and is co-curator and producer (with Sandra Percival) of the public art series "Confluence: Points of View on Buffalo Bayou."
Funding
Special thanks to The Hispanic Society of America and The Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance (NoMAA). This program is generously supported by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and New York City Councilmember Robert Jackson. Beverages compliments of Brooklyn Brewery. Lessons in the Sky is made possible, in part, by The Experimental Television Center's Presentation Funds program, which is supported by the New York State Council on the Arts.
Image: Emily Kuehn, The RealTime and Life of John James Audubon Video and Animation, 2008. Video Still. |
Robert Lubar, Associate Professor, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, will lecture on Antoni Tāpies
Saturday, June 27, 2009, 1pm
Dia:Beacon, Riggio Galleries
3 Beekman Street, Beacon, NY 12508
845 440 0100 www.diaart.org
Robert S. Lubar is Associate Professor of Fine Arts at the New York University, Institute of Fine Arts. He has written and lectured extensively on Spanish art, and particularly on Catalonian artists such as Antoni Tapies, Joan Mirķ and Salvador Dalí. His articles have appeared in Art Bulletin, Art in America, Arts Magazine, Revista de Catalunya, Revista de Occidente and Romance Quarterly, among other publications. He is a frequent lecturer in Spain, and has given talks at the Fundaciķ Joan Mirķ; Museu Picasso, Barcelona; El Museo del Prado; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía; and the Museo Picasso Málaga, to name a few. His essays have appeared in the catalogues Barcelona and Modernity; Madrid-Barcelona, 1930-1936. La tradiciķn de lo nuevo; Joan Mirķ: Painting and Anti-Painting; Salvador Dalí: A Mythology; Picasso. Musas y Modelos among many others. Recently he has edited the forthcoming The Trial of Salvador Dalí (Madrid: Siruela), and is currently working on the book Barcelona: Painting and Politics in the "City of Bombs" 1898-1939, to be published by the Yale University Press.
Antoni Tāpies was born in Barcelona, Spain, in 1923 into a family of booksellers and Catalan nationalist politicians. During protracted periods of illness in his adolescence, he began drawing and developing a serious interest in literature. In 1944, after abandoning law studies at Barcelona University, he began to work as an artist. Tāpies first exhibited his work in the late 1940s and had his first solo exhibition in 1950 at Galeries Laietanes, Barcelona, and his first New York solo exhibition in 1953 at Martha Jackson Gallery. He first traveled abroad, to Paris, in 1951, where he met Pablo Picasso, and in 1953 he visited New York, where he met Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline, Robert Motherwell, and Hans Hofmann. In 1984, he established the Antoni Tāpies Foundation in Barcelona. Retrospective surveys of his work have been presented at such venues as Kestner-Gesellschaft, Hannover, Germany (1962); the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (1962); the Kunsthaus Zurich (1962); the Museum des 20. Jahrhunderts, Vienna (1968); Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (1973); Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo (1977); Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (1980); Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf (1989); and Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid (2000). In 1993, Tāpies and Cristina Iglesias represented Spain at the 45th Venice Biennale. Tāpies lives and works in Barcelona.
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: Antoni Tāpies: The Resources of Rhetoric. May 16-October 19, 2009. Installation view, Dia:Beacon, Beacon, NY. Photo: Bill Jacobson.
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Art Law- After Conceptual Art, in the Digital Age, and during Lean Times
Saturday, June 27, 2009, 2pm
Dia:Beacon, Riggio Galleries
3 Beekman Street, Beacon, NY 12508
845 440 0100 www.diaart.org
$10 general admission per class.
Free admission for Members of Dia, the Dutchess County Arts Council, and Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts.
For program reservations, call 845 440 0100 x19 or email rsvpVLA@diaart.org.
A Professional Development Series on contemporary legal issues for artists and arts organizations presented at Dia:Beacon by Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts, NYC.
Copyright Law for Visual Artists
This workshop is appropriate for artists and arts organizations in all fields. Topics will include the general standards for copyright protection; non-copyrightable subject matter; works of authorship (categories; exclusive rights); moral rights; publication, notice, and other formalities; the advantages of registration; ownership (initial ownership; transfers; works-for-hire); infringement and remedies; fair use; and protection duration. The workshop will also provide a brief overview of trademark law and how it differs from copyright.
All classes will be will be taught by Sergio Muņoz Sarmiento, Associate Director, Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts, NYC. For more information on upcoming classes please visit http://www.diaart.org/prg/special/Image: Exterior view, Dia:Beacon, Riggio Galleries. ŠRichard Barnes. Courtesy Dia Art Foundation.
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The Collection of Silence
A Project by Eileen Myles
Tuesday, June 30, 2009, 7pm
Free admission. For reservations, call 212 293 5582 or Tuesdays@diaart.org.
All programs are outdoors, please visit www.diaart.org for inclement weather updates.
Dia at the Hispanic Society
Audubon Terrace, Broadway between
155th and 156th streets, New York City
By subway take number 1 train to 157th and Broadway
Eileen Myles will present The Collection of Silence, a baroque site-specific work around the ways in which silence is central to the syntax and punctuation of everyday life. A diverse group of poets will present short pieces at various locations on the outdoor plaza of Audubon Terrace, where they will be joined by a group of students from PS4. Also accompanied by dancers, Buddhists, an opera singer, and a life drawing class, this mute and active gathering will demonstrate and celebrate the collective power of silence and the capacity of an unvoiced poem to serve the communal purposes of public life. Participants include poets Charles Bernstein, Stephanie Gray, Tim Liu, Monica De la Torre, Rachel Zolf, Christine Hou, and Julie Patton, dancer-choreographer Christine Elmo, The Village Zendo, and soprano Juliana Snapper. The silent texts will be available in a bilingual edition at the performance.
Eileen Myles is a poet (Sorry, Tree), who writes fiction (Cool for You), and a performer and libretticist whose opera "Hell" (with composer Michael Webster) was performed on both coasts in 2004 and again in 2006. From 2002-2007, she directed the writing program at the University of California, San Diego, and is currently Professor Emeritus of Writing & Literature there. The Importance of Being Iceland, a collection of writings on art, culture, and queerness for which she received a Warhol/Creative Capital grant, will be out in July from Semiotext(e)/MIT. She lives in New York.
Funding
Special thanks to The Hispanic Society of America and The Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance (NoMAA). This program is generously supported by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and New York City Councilmember Robert Jackson. Beverages compliments of Brooklyn Brewery. Lessons in the Sky is made possible, in part, by The Experimental Television Center's Presentation Funds program, which is supported by the New York State Council on the Arts.
Image: Eileen Myles. Photo: Alice O'Malley.
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