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

On Community Free Days, residents of neighboring counties Columbia, Dutchess, Orange, Putnam, Rockland, Ulster, and Westchester are invited to visit Dia:Beacon free of charge. Please bring a driver's license or other government-issued ID for entry into the museum.

Programs are also open to the general public and are free with museum admission.

12:00pm
Introducing Dia:Beacon
Susan Sayre Batton, Managing Director, Dia:Beacon will discuss the transformation of Dia:Beacon from a Nabisco Box Printing factory to a museum and introduce key aspects of Dia's renowned collection and distinctive history.

1:00-1:30pm
Guided tours and family tours
Tours will include recently reinstalled galleries dedicated to the work of John Chamberlain, Walter De Maria, Imi Knoebel, Agnes Martin, and Robert Ryman, as well as the special exhibition, Franz Erhard Walther: Work as Action.

2:00-4:00pm
Premiere screening of "New School," a film on contemporary Hudson Valley artists, followed by a conversation with the filmmaker and featured artists
Ty Marshal is a filmmaker who currently serves as the coordinator of Creative Arts Academy at the Community Folk Art Center in Syracuse, New York. Through a series of brief interviews, Marshal has profiled over twenty Hudson Valley-based artists ranging in background from emerging to established.

Image: Dia:Beacon, Riggio Galleries, 2003. Photo: © Richard Barnes.

 

Thursday, December 16, 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.

Charles Bernstein was born in New York City in 1950. He attended the Bronx High School of Science and Harvard University, from which he graduated in 1972. He is the author of 40 books, ranging from large-scale collections of poetry and essays to pamphlets, libretti, translations, and collaborations. Recent works include All the Whiskey in Heaven: Selected Poems (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010); Girly Man (University of Chicago Press, 2006); With Strings (University of Chicago Press, 2001); and Republics of Reality: 1975-1995 (Sun & Moon Press, 2000). He has published two books of essays, A Poetics (Harvard University Press, 1992) and Content's Dream: Essays 1975-1984 (Sun & Moon Press, 1986, 1994; reprinted by Northwestern University Press, 2001); and one essay/poem collection, My Way: Speeches and Poems (University of Chicago Press, 1999). In spring 2011 Bernstein will publish The Attack of the Difficult Poems: Essays & Inventions (University of Chicago Press, 2011).

Tim Peterson (Trace) is a poet, critic, editor, and curator. The author of Since I Moved In (Chax Press), Peterson also has a new chapbook, VIOLET SPEECH, forthcoming from 2nd Avenue Poetry. Peterson edits EOAGH: A Journal of the Arts and curates a number of events in the New York City area including the talk series Quips & Cranks (with Vincent Katz) at The School of Visual Arts, the Zinc Bar poetry series, and the TENDENCIES: Poetics & Practice talks series on queer theory and the manifesto at CUNY Graduate Center.

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

Image: Charles Bernstein (left), photo: Susan Bee. Tim Peterson (right), photo: Tim Peterson.

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

Free with admission. For reservations, click here.

Larissa Harris is curator at the Queens Museum of Art, where she is developing programs to take place during and after the museum's planned expansion, to be completed by 2012. From 2004-2008, she was associate director of the Center for Advanced Visual Studies at MIT where she worked on new projects by Michael Smith, Damon Rich/the Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP), John Malpede, and John Bell; and established new initiatives including a visiting artist series, student residency program, and a residency for Boston-area artists. She is also half of a partnership called The Steins, which produces occasional, extremely brief exhibitions in basements in the Lower East Side.

For more information on upcoming Gallery Talks, click here.

Image: Andy Warhol, Shadows, 1978-79. Dia Art Foundation Photo: Bill Jacobson.