Dia Art Foundation: March Dia News
Recent Installation at Dia:Beacon: Agnes Martin Galleries
Mar. 3: CANCELLED: Enrique Vila-Matas responds to chronotopes & dioramas
Mar. 4: SoHo Night: Walter De Maria's The New York Earth Room and The Broken Kilometer Open Late
Mar. 6: Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster in conversation with Lynne Cooke
Mar. 15: Artists on Artists Lecture Series: Gedi Sibony on Bruce Nauman
Mar. 16: Franz Erhard Walther in conversation with Tobi Maier and Yasmil Raymond
Mar. 27: Gallery Talk: Yasmil Raymond on Donald Judd
Recent Installation at Dia:Beacon: Agnes Martin Galleries

Agnes Martin  

March 1, 2010 and Ongoing

Dia:Beacon, Riggio Galleries
3 Beekman Street, Beacon, NY 12508
845 440 0100 www.diaart.org

This presentation of Agnes Martin paintings from Dia's collection focuses on early works from 1957-60 and late works from 1999-2002.

Agnes Martin was born in Saskatchewan, Canada, in 1912. She gained a BA in 1942 and an MA in 1952 from Teachers College at Columbia University, New York, while intermittently living in New Mexico. In 1957 she relocated to Coenties Slip in Lower Manhattan, where her neighbors included artists Robert Indiana, Ellsworth Kelly, James Rosenquist, Leonore Tawney, and Ann Wilson. Martin had her first one-person exhibition in 1958 at the Betty Parsons Gallery, New York, and surveys at venues including the Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (1973), the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (1991), the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (1992), and the Menil Collection, Houston (2002). Martin continued to live and work in Taos, New Mexico, until her death on December 16, 2004.

For more information about the recent installation, click here.

Image: Agnes Martin, The Spring, 1958. Dia Art Foundation; Anonymous Gift. Photo: Bill Jacobson.

CANCELLED: Enrique Vila-Matas responds to chronotopes & dioramas


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

WE REGRET TO ANNOUNCE THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED.

For more information on Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, chronotopes & dioramas, click here.

SoHo Night: Walter De Maria's The New York Earth Room and The Broken Kilometer Open Late

Walter De Maria, The New York Earth Room  Walter De Maria, The Broken Kilometer

Thursday, March 4, 2010, 6-9pm

The New York Earth Room, 1977
141 Wooster Street
New York City

The Broken Kilometer, 1979
393 West Broadway
New York City

Admission is free.

Walter De Maria's long-term installations The New York Earth Room, 1977, and The Broken Kilometer, 1979, will be open last as part of The Armory Show's SoHo Night.

For more information about Dia sites in New York City, click here.

Image: (left) Walter De Maria, The New York Earth Room, 1977. Long-term installation at 141 Wooster Street, New York City. Photo: John Cliett. Courtesy Dia Art Foundation. (right) Walter De Maria, The Broken Kilometer, 1979. Long-term installation at 393 West Broadway, New York City. Photo: John Abbott. Courtesy Dia Art Foundation.

Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster in Conversation with Lynne Cooke

Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster 

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

Enter through the American Academy of Arts and Letters entrance at 633 West 155th Street.

Free admission. Space is limited, for reservations, click here.

Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster was born in 1965 in Strasbourg, France, and today lives and works in Paris and Rio de Janeiro. Recent solo exhibitions include projects for The Turbine Hall, Tate Modern, London (2008); MUSAC Museo de Arte Contempor�neo de Castilla y L�on (2008); Mus�e d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris / ARC, Paris (2007); Kunsthalle Z�rich, Zurich (2004); and Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (2002). She also participated in The 53rd International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia (2009), Skulptur Projekte M�nster (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.

Lynne Cooke was appointed curator at Dia Art Foundation, New York in 1991 and in 2009 was named Dia's curator at large. In 2008, she became chief curator 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 Francis Al�s, Richard Serra, Agnes Martin, and Zoe Leonard.

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.



Artists on Artists Lecture Series: Gedi Sibony on Bruce Nauman

Gedi Sibony Bruce Nauman

Monday, March 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.

Gedi Sibony was born in 1973 in New York, where he lives and works. Recent one-person exhibitions include presentations at the Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis (2009); Kunsthalle St. Gallen, Switzerland (2007); Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis (2007); and FRAC Champagne-Ardenne, Reims, France (2007).


For more information on upcoming Artists on Artists Lectures click here.

Image: (left) Gedi Sibony, Installation view, 2009. Courtesy Gladstone Gallery, Brussels and Greene Naftali, New York. Photo: David Regan. (right) Bruce Nauman, Double Poke in the Eye II, 1985. New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York. Courtesy Brooke Alexander, Inc. � 2010 Bruce Nauman / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.


Franz Erhard Walther in conversation with Tobi Maier and Yasmil Raymond

Franz Erhard Walther

Tuesday, March 16, 2010, 7pm

Goethe-Institut Wyoming Building
5 East 3rd Street at Bowery, New York City


Admission is free. For reservations click here.

Dia Art Foundation, Goethe-Institut New York, and Ludlow 38 present a conversation between Franz Erhard Walther, Tobi Maier, Curator, Ludlow 38, and Yasmil Raymond, Curator, Dia Art Foundation.

Franz Erhard Walther was born in 1939 in Fulda, Germany, where he lives and works. Walther studied at the D�sseldorf Kunstakademie in 1962-64, and lived in New York in the late 1960s and early 1970s. He has exhibited extensively worldwide since 1967. He participated in documentas 5 (1972), 6 (1977), 7 (1982), and 8 (1987), and his work was included in the landmark 1969 exhibition When Attitudes Become Form, Kunsthalle Bern, Bern. A major retrospective of his work since 1958 is currently on view at Mus�e d'art moderne et contemporain, Geneva. An exhibition of Walther's work from the 1960s will open at Peter Freeman, Inc. New York, on March 11 and remain on view until May 1, 2010.

Image: Franz Erhard Walther, Sockel, vier Bereiche (Keeping the Canvas Square in Shape), number 49 from 1.Werksatz, 1967. Photo: Timm Rautert. Courtesy Peter Freeman, Inc.

Gallery Talk: Yasmil Raymond on Donald Judd

Donald Judd  

Saturday, March 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.

Yasmil Raymond was appointed curator of Dia Art Foundation in May 2009. Prior to joining Dia, Ms. Raymond worked at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis where she organized solo exhibitions with Tom�s Saraceno and Tino Sehgal, and the recent exhibition Abstract Resistance, which opened in February 2010, among other projects. Ms. Raymond received her B.F.A. from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (1999) and her M.A. from the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College (2004). In 2004 Ms. Raymond received the Monique Beudert Curatorial Award, given by the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College.

For more information and upcoming Gallery Talks click here.

Image: Donald Judd, untitled, 1976. Installation view, Dia:Beacon, Beacon, NY. Dia Art Foundation; gift of the Brown Foundation. Photo: Bill Jacobson.

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