Dia Art Foundation: November Dia News
Nov. 5: Koo Jeong A Exhibition Opens at Dia:Beacon, the Hispanic Society, and The Dan Flavin Art Institute
Nov. 5-7: Dia at The NY Art Book Fair
Nov. 8: Artist on Artist Lecture: Kim Gordon on Dan Graham SOLD OUT
Nov. 18: Readings in Contemporary Poetry: Eileen Myles and Stacy Szymaszek
Nov. 27: Gallery Talk: Gabriela Rangel on Bruce Nauman POSTPONED
Nov. 30: Reading and Book launch for Zoe Leonard: You see I am here after all
Koo Jeong A: Constellation Congress Opens at Dia:Beacon, the Hispanic Society, and The Dan Flavin Art Institute

Koo Jeong-A

November 5, 2010-June 26, 2011

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.

Koo Jeong A's immersive installation at the Hispanic Society will comprise new multimedia works that were commissioned by Dia, including architectural interventions guided by feng shui principles, an olfactory element, and a video projection, among other works.


November 5, 2010-June 26, 2011

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

Free with museum admission.

At Dia:Beacon, Koo Jeong A will present a new iteration of the outdoor sculpture A Reality Upgrade & End Alone (2003/2010) consisting of approximately five thousand glittering stones.

November 5, 2010-September 4, 2011

The Dan Flavin Art Institute
Corwith Avenue, off Main Street
Bridgehampton, New York
631 537 1476 www.diaart.org

Free admission.

Koo Jeong A has created a selection of new works on paper for The Dan Flavin Art Institute's first-floor gallery.


For more information on Koo Jeong A: Constellation Congress, click here.

Image: Koo Jeong-A, Writer's Observatorium, 2010. Print on plywood. Photo courtesy the artist and Yvon Lambert Gallery.

Dia at The NY Art Book Fair

New York Book Fair
 

Public Preview on Thursday, November 4, 6-9pm
Friday, November 5-Saturday, November 6, 11am-7pm
Sunday, November 7, 11am-5pm

MoMA PS1
22-25 Jackson Avenue at 46th Avenue
Long Island City, NY www.ps1.org

Free admission.

You can find Dia at booth S02.

For more information on the NY Art Fair, click here.

Artists on Artists Lecture: Kim Gordon on Dan Graham

Kim Gordon, Dan Graham
 
Monday, November 8, 2010, 6:30pm


Dia:Chelsea
535 West 22nd Street, 5th Floor, New York, NY 10011
212 989 5566 www.diaart.org

Sold Out. 

Kim Gordon was born in 1953 in Rochester, New York. She is a musician, artist, video director and a member of the bands Sonic Youth and Free Kitten. Her work has been exhibited at such venues as the South London Gallery (2005) and the Gothenburg Biennale (2003). She curated, among others, the Club In The Shadow, a collaboration with artist Jutta Koether.

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

Image: (left) Kim Gordon with Jutta Koether, performance by Bad Adult as part of "Performing/Guzzling" at KS Art. Photo: Stefano Giovanni. (right) Dan Graham, Rooftop Urban Park Project, 1981-1991 

Readings in Contemporary Poetry: Eileen Myles and Stacy Syzmaszek

Eileen Myles and Stacy Syzmaszek 

Thursday, November 18, 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.

Eileen Myles was born in Arlington, MA and moved to New York in 1974. Her Inferno (a poet's novel) (OR Books, 2010) is just out from www.orbooks.com. For her collection of essays, The Importance of Being Iceland (MIT press, 2009), she received a Warhol/Creative Capital grant. Sorry, Tree (Wave Books, 2007) is her most recent book of poems. In 2010 the Poetry Society of America awarded Myles the Shelley Prize. She is a Prof. Emeritus of Writing at UC San Diego. She'll be Hurst professor at Washington U, St. Louis in November 2010. She lives in New York. For more information, visit www.eileenmyles.com.

Stacy Szymaszek was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin .She is the author of the books Emptied of All Ships (Litmus Press, 2005) and Hyperglossia (Litmus Press, 2009), as well as numerous chapbooks, including Orizaba: A Voyage with Hart Crane (Faux Press, 2008), Stacy S.: Autoportraits (OMG, 2008), and from Hart Island (Albion Books, 2009). From 1999 to 2005, she worked at Woodland Pattern Book Center in Milwaukee. In 2005 she moved to New York City where she is the current Artistic Director of the Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church.

For more information on upcoming Reading in Contemporary Poetry, click here.

Image: (left) Eileen Myles, Photo: Leopoldine Core. (right) Stacy Szymaszek, Photo: Stacy Szymaszek.

Gallery Talk: Gabriela Rangel on Bruce Nauman

Bruce Nauman

This event has been postponed.

Dia:Beacon, Riggio Galleries

3 Beekman Street, Beacon, NY 12508
845 440 0100 www.diaart.org

For updated information, click here.

Gabriela Rangel holds an M.A. in Curatorial Studies from the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College, an M.A. in Media and Communications Studies from the Universidad Católica Andrés Bello in Caracas, and a B.A. in Film Studies from the International Film School at San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba. She is currently the Director of Visual Arts and Chief Curator at the Americas Society. She co-edited A Principality of Its Own: Forty Years of Visual Arts at the Americas Society (2006), and has contributed to publications including Art Nexus, Arte al Día, Trans and Parkett, and to books on artists including Liliana Porter, Claudio Perna, and others.

For more information on upcoming Gallery Talks, click here.

Image: Bruce Nauman, Mapping the Studio I (Fat Chance John Cage), 2001. Lannan Foundation: long-term loan. Photo: Stuart Tyson.

Reading and Book Launch for Zoe Leonard: You see I am here after all

Zoe Leonard

Tuesday, November 30, 2010, 7pm

Location to be announced.

As a corollary to Leonard's installation on view at Dia:Beacon composed of vintage postcards of Niagara Falls, this publication expands on several of the project's thematic aspects. With essays by Lynne Cooke, Angela Miller, Ann Reynolds, and Lytle Shaw. Distributed by Yale University Press.


Image: Blinky Palermo, To the People of New York City (Part XII), 1976. Collection Dia Art Foundation. Photo: Bill Jacobson.

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