Antoni Tąpies Film Program
Every Saturday and Sunday, through October 18, 2009
Screenings at 12pm, 2pm, and 4pmDia:Beacon, Riggio Galleries
3 Beekman Street, Beacon, NY 12508
845 440 0100 info@diaart.org
Free with museum admission.
A. T. Alfabet Tąpies, 2004 (52 minutes)
A documentary by Daniel Hernįndez. Courtesy Alea Docs & Films, Barcelona.
Presented in conjunction with the exhibition Antoni Tąpies: The Resources of Rhetoric, this documentary, filmed on the occasion of Antoni Tąpies's 80th birthday in 2003, includes extensive interviews with Tąpies regarding his life, influences, and approach to artistic practice as it follows him from his studio near Barcelona to the installation of exhibitions in Paris and New York. Antoni Tąpies: The Resources of Rhetoric is currently on view through October 18, 2009. Image: Antoni Tąpies, L'escala (The Ladder), 1974. Mixed media on wood, 98 2/5 x 118 1/10 inches (250 x 300 cm). Fundación Telefónica, en depósito en el Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofķa. © Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofķa. |
Orange County Community Free Day
Saturday, August 8, 2009, 11am to 6pm
Dia:Beacon, Riggio Galleries
3 Beekman Street, Beacon, NY 12508
845 440 0100 info@diaart.org
For Dia's series of Community Free Days, residents of Orange County are invited to visit Dia:Beacon free of charge. Residents should present a valid driver's license, voter registration card, or other government-issued ID for free entry to the museum for a day of special programs.
12:00pm
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 Art Foundation's collection that is now listed on the State and National Register of Historical Places. The talk will begin in the forecourt of the museum.
1:00pm
Guided Tours of Dia's collection will begin in the main entrance to the museum.
2:00pm
Family Day: Line, Rhythm, Chance. Dia:Beacon educators will lead families on a guided exploration through the museum with movement-based learning. Family Day will begin in the Imi Knoebel galleries.
Open to children age six and above accompanied by an adult.
Chronogram is proud to be a media sponsor of Orange County Community Free Day.
Funding
Community Free Days are made possible in part with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency.
Community Free Days at Dia:Beacon
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. Upcoming Community Free Days include Putman County on October 10th and Ulster County on December 12th.
Image: Exterior view, Dia:Beacon, Riggio Galleries, 2003. Photo: ©Richard Barnes. Courtesy Dia Art Foundation.
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Gallery Talk, Steven Evans, Assistant Director for Beacon, will lecture on Max Neuhaus
Saturday, August 29, 2009, * 12:45pm
Dia:Beacon, Riggio Galleries
3 Beekman Street, Beacon, NY 12508
845 440 0100 info@diaart.org
Free with museum admission. For reservations call 845 440 0100 x44 or gallerytalks@diaart.org.
Steven Evans is Dia Art Foundation's Assistant Director for Beacon. He has worked extensively with Dia artists and colleagues to realize some of the most impressive contemporary art projects of the last two decades. In addition to his duties at Dia Art Foundation, Evans has organized exhibitions, written on art, and exhibited his artwork.
Although Max Neuhaus was born in Beaumont, Texas, in 1939, he spent part of his early childhood in Fishkill, New York, before attending high school in Houston, Texas. From 1957 to 1962, he studied percussion at the Manhattan School of Music, after which he toured the United States and Europe as a percussion soloist and gave recitals at Carnegie Hall. In 1966, he made his first acoustic artwork. Thereafter, he used sound to transform space and perceptions of place in works he termed "sound installations." His work has been exhibited internationally in museums and galleries, including solo shows at the Museum of Modern Art, New York (1978); Musée d'art moderne de la ville de Paris (1983); and the Kunsthalle, Bern (1989). He was also included in Documenta 6 (1977) and 9 (1992), the 1983 Whitney Biennial, and the 1999 Venice Biennale. In addition to Times Square (1977) and Time Piece Beacon (2005), which are both in Dia's collection, permanent sound works by Neuhaus include those in Graz, Austria; Geneva, Switzerland; Bern, Switzerland; Turin, Italy; Bordeaux, France; and Kassel, Germany, among other locations. Max Neuhaus passed away on February 3, 2009 near his home in Naples, Italy.
Funding
Gallery Talks are made possible in part with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency.
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: Max Neuhaus, drawing for Time Piece Beacon, 2005. Long-term installation at Dia:Beacon, Beacon, NY. © 2005 Max Neuhaus. Dia Art Foundation. Photo: Cathy Carver.
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