Trisha Brown Dance Company Performances at Dia:Beacon 
Saturday, February 13, 2010, 12pm and 2pm
Sunday, February 14, 2010, 12pm and 2pm
Dia:Beacon, Riggio Galleries
3 Beekman Street, Beacon, NY 12508
845 440 0100 www.diaart.org
$35 general admission
$20 admission for Dia members, students, and seniors
Includes museum admission.
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In February, Dia presents the second in a series of performances by Trisha Brown Dance Company. Moving through several different galleries at Dia:Beacon, the program will include a variety of works from the repertory of Brown's groundbreaking 40-year career in the context of artworks by her peers. The performance weekend will be bracketed by a month-long presentation of archival material from the company's collection, including screenings of vintage performance footage.
For more information about Trisha Brown Dance Company at Dia:Beacon click here.
Image: Trisha Brown Dance Company, Group Primary Accumulation (1973), with Leah Morrison, Tamara Riewe, and Laurel Tentindo. Performance at Dia:Beacon, Beacon, NY. November 2009. Background: Andy Warhol, Shadows (1978-79). © 2010 The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts / ARS, New York. Photo: © Stephanie Berger.
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Trisha Brown in Conversation with Independent Curator Klaus Kertess and Dia Director Philippe Vergne
Saturday, February 13, 2010, 3pm
Dia:Beacon, Riggio Galleries
3 Beekman Street, Beacon, NY 12508
845 440 0100 www.diaart.org
Free with museum admission. For reservations, click here.
Trisha Brown discusses her 40-year career as a groundbreaking dancer-choreographer with independent curator Klaus Kertess and Dia director Philippe Vergne.
Klaus Kertess co-founded and directed the Bykert Gallery in New York City from 1966 to 1975, and has curated numerous exhibitions including the 1995 Whitney Biennial. Among his many publications since 1975 are monographs on Peter Hujar, Brice Marden, and Joan Mitchell, and recent essays on John Chamberlain, Albert Oehlen, and Matthew Ritchie. In 2009, Kertess received the Lawrence A. Fleischman award for scholarly excellence in the field of American art history from the Smithsonian Archives for American Art. A selection of his writings will be published in fall 2010.
For more information about Trisha Brown Dance Company at Dia:Beacon click here.
Image: Trisha Brown Dance Company, Sticks (1973), with Dai Jian. Performance at Dia:Beacon, Beacon, NY. November 2009. Left: Sol LeWitt, Wall Drawings #1085: Drawing Series-Composite, Part I-IV, #1-24, A + B, 1968 © 2009 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Background: Dan Flavin, untitled, 1970. © 2010 Stephen Flavin/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: © Stephanie Berger.
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Artists on Artists Lecture Series: Luis Camnitzer on Blinky Palermo 
Monday, February 15, 2010 6:30pm
Dia:Chelsea
535 West 22nd Street, 5th Floor, New York, NY 10011
212 989 5566 www.diaart.org
$6 general, $3 Dia members, students, and seniors
For reservations click here.
German-born Uruguayan artist Luis Camnitzer was born in 1937 and has lived and worked in New York since 1964. Among his many solo exhibitions are recent shows at Museo de Arte Diseño Contemporáneo, San José, Costa Rica (2007); Kunsthalle Kiel (2003); The Kitchen, New York (2001); and Museo del Barrio, New York (1995). Camnitzer was the recipient of Guggenheim Fellowships in 1982 and 1961. His work will be the subject of a retrospective organized by the Daros Collection, Zurich, in 2010.
For more information on upcoming Artists on Artists Lectures click here.
Image: (left) Luis Camnitzer, Landscape As An Attitude, 1979. Silver gelatin photograph, 9 ½ x 13 1/8 inches. Courtesy Alexander Gray Associates, New York, NY. (right) Blinky Palermo, To the People of New York City (Part IX), 1976-77. Installation at Dia:Beacon, Beacon, NY. Dia Art Foundation. Photo: Bill Jacobson.
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Gallery Talk: Bettina Funcke and Johanna Burton on Zoe Leonard
Saturday, February 27, 2010, 1pm
Dia:Beacon, Riggio Galleries
3 Beekman Street, Beacon, NY 12508
845 440 0100 www.diaart.org
Free with museum admission. For reservations click here.
Bettina Funcke's book, Pop or Populus: Art between High and Low, was recently translated into English and published by Sternberg Press (2009). She has lectured at Bard College, Columbia University, Yale University, and the ZKM in Karlsruhe, Germany. Her writings on contemporary art and its production have been published in Afterall, Artforum, Bookforum, Parkett, Public, and Texte zur Kunst. A co-founder of The Leopard Press and the Continuous Project group, Funcke has worked as an editor at Dia Art Foundation and recently as Senior Editor U.S., Parkett.
Johanna Burton, a New York-based art historian and critic, has written extensively on postwar and contemporary art for numerous publications including Artforum, Parkett, and Texte zur Kunst; and she is the editor of Cindy Sherman (2006), a collection of critical essays on the artist for MIT Press's October Files series. In 2008 Burton was appointed Associate Director and Senior Faculty Member at the Whitney Independent Study Program in New York.
For more information and upcoming Gallery Talks click here.
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.
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St. Luke's Chamber Ensemble at Dia:Beacon
Sunday, February 28, 2010, 2pm
Dia:Beacon, Riggio Galleries
3 Beekman Street, Beacon, NY 12508
845 440 0100 www.diaart.org
$35 general admission, $25 for Dia members
Three-concert series subscriptions $85 or $70 for Dia members.
For information and tickets, call St. Luke's 212 594 6100 or visit www.oslmusic.org
Magical History Tour
Journey through four centuries of music celebrating the Hudson River Quadricentennial, Henry Purcell's 350th birthday, and St. Luke's 35th anniversary including music by Purcell, American composers John Adams and Arthur Foote, and the world premiere of a new work by Joan Tower.
For information on upcoming performances by St. Luke's Chamber Ensemble click here.
Image: St. Luke's Chamber Ensemble, performance at Dia:Beacon, Beacon, NY.
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Enrique Vila-Matas Responds to
chronotopes & dioramas at Dia at the Hispanic Society
Wednesday, March 3, 2010, 7pm
Dia at the Hispanic Society of America
Broadway between 155th and 156th Streets, New York City
Take number 1 train to 157th Street and Broadway
212 989 5566 www.diaart.org
Free admission. For reservations, click here.
Enrique Vila-Matas was born in Barcelona in 1948. Among his many novels are El mal de Montano (2002), Exploradores del abismo (2007), Doctor Pasavento (2005) and Dublinesque (forthcoming, 2010). Vila-Matas's Historia abreviada de la literatura portátil (1985) and Bartleby y compañía (2000) are among those books included by Gonzalez-Foerster in chronotopes & dioramas.
* Please note this lecture will be in Spanish with English translation.
For more information on Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, chronotopes & dioramas, click here.
Image: Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, chronotopes & dioramas, 2009. Installation view, Dia at the Hispanic Society, September 23, 2009-June 27, 2010. Photo Cathy Carver.
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Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster in Conversation with Lynne Cooke at Dia at the Hispanic Society 
Saturday, March 6, 2010, 2pm
Dia at the Hispanic Society of America
Broadway between 155th and 156th Streets, New York City
Take number 1 train to 157th Street and Broadway
212 989 5566 www.diaart.org
Free admission. For reservations, click here.
Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster discusses chronotopes & dioramas, her project for Dia at the Hispanic Society, with exhibition curator Lynne Cooke. Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster was born in 1965 in Strasbourg, France. Among her recent solo exhibitions are projects for The Turbine Hall, Tate Modern, London (2008); MUSAC Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y Léon (2008); Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris / ARC, Paris (2007); Kunsthalle Zürich, Zurich (2004); and Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (2002). She also participated in The 53rd International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia (2009), Skulptur Projekte Münster (2007) and Documenta XI, Kassel (2002). She is the recipient of the 2002 Marcel Duchamp Award, Paris, the 1996-97 Mies van der Rohe Award, Krefeld, and the Villa Kujoyama, Kyoto artist residency in 1996-97. In November 2009, she presented in collaboration with composer Ari Benjamin-Meyers a new performance in New York City as part of PERFORMA 09. Gonzalez-Foerster lives and works in Paris and Rio de Janeiro.
For more information on Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, chronotopes & dioramas, click here.
Image: Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, chronotopes & dioramas, 2009. Installation view, Dia at the Hispanic Society, September 23, 2009-June 27, 2010. Photo Cathy Carver.
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