Artists on Artists Lecture: Abraham Cruzvillegas on Robert Smithson Monday, February 14, 2011, 6:30pmDia:Chelsea535 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.Abraham Cruzvillegas, born in 1968, lives and works in Mexico City. His recent solo exhibitions include shows at REDCAT, Los Angeles (2009); The Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco (2009); The Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow (2008); Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Oaxaca, Mexico (2005); and Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston (2003). For more information on upcoming Artists on Artists Lectures, click here.This series is made possible by support from the SEA Foundation and by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs. Image: (left) courtesy Abraham Cruzvillegas; (right) Robert Smithson, Map of Broken Glass (Atlantis), 1969. Lannan Foundation; long-term loan. Photo: Florian Holzherr.
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Readings in Contemporary Poetry: Ann Lauterbach and Paul Foster Johnson
Thursday, February 17, 2011, 6:30pmDia:Chelsea535 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.Ann Lauterbach, a New York City native, is the author of eight books of poetry and the recipient of several prestigious fellowships as well as a National Book Award nomination. She is currently the co-chair of Writing at the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College, and visiting core critic at the Yale University School of Art. Paul Foster Johnson, a New York-based editor, is the author of Refrains/Unworkings, the upcoming Study in Pavilions and Safe Rooms, and, with E. Tracy Grinnell, the g-o-n-g press chapbook Quadriga. His poems have appeared in The Awl, Jacket, Cannot Exist, GAM, EOAGH, Fence, and Octopus. For more information on upcoming Readings in Contemporary Poetry, click here.This series is supported in part by Barbara and Charles Wright and an anonymous donor. Image: Ann Lauterbach (left), photo: Marina van Zuylen. Paul Foster Johnson (right), photo: Chris Warrington. |
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Film Screening: Autoconstrucción (2009) by Abraham Cruzvillegas
Sunday, February 20, 2011, 3:00pm
New Museum
235 Bowery, New York, NY 10002
212 219 1222 www.newmuseum.org
$8 general, $6 Dia members.
Through his interest in autoconstrucción ("self-construction"), Abraham Cruzvillegas explores economies of the makeshift, the handmade and the recycled. In this film, commissioned by REDCAT in Los Angeles, Cruzvillegas examines his childhood home and the neighborhood of Ajusco, a district in the south of Mexico City founded by migrants who, like his parents, settled in what was deemed uninhabitable land in the 1960s.
Co-presented by Dia Art Foundation.
Please note: This program contains explicit content.
For more information, click here.
Image: Ajusco, Mexico City. Location of Abraham Cruzvillegas' film. Photo: Ryan Inouye.
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Opening at the Hirshhorn: Blinky Palermo: Retrospective 1964-1977
February 24, 2011-May 15, 2011
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
Independence Avenue at Seventh Street SW, Washington, DC 20013
202 633 4674 www.hirshhorn.si.edu
Dia Art Foundation and CCS Bard introduced the first North American retrospective of the work of Blinky Palermo (1943-1977). The retrospective is curated by Lynne Cooke and, after traveling to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, opens this month at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (February 24-May 15, 2011). The exhibition will culminate at Dia:Beacon and CCS Bard (June 25-October 31, 2011).
For more information on Blinky Palermo: Retrospective 1964-1977, click here.
The national tour of Blinky Palermo: Retrospective 1964-1977 is made possible by GUCCI. Additional tour support is provided by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the Brown Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and Glenstone. Funding for the publication is provided in part by Sotheby's, the Marx Family Advised Fund at Aspen Community Foundation, and The Andrew J. and Christine C. Hall Foundation.
Image: Image: Blinky Palermo, To the People of New York City (Part IX), 1976. Collection Dia Art Foundation. Photo: Bill Jacobson.
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Gallery Talk: Gary Carrión-Murayari on Walter De Maria
Saturday, February 26, 2011, 2pm
Dia:Beacon, Riggio Galleries
3 Beekman Street, Beacon, NY 12508
845 440 0100 www.diaart.org
Free with museum admission. For reservations, click here.
Gary Carrión-Murayari was recently appointed Associate Curator at the New Museum, New York. Prior to that, he worked for seven years at the Whitney Museum of American Art where he curated or co-curated exhibitions including "Television Delivers People," "Elad Lassry: Three Films," and "Whitney on Site: Tauba Auerbach." His most recent exhibition is "Karthik Pandian: Unearth." Together with Francesco Bonami, he co-curated the 2010 Whitney Biennial.
For more information on upcoming Gallery Talks, click here.
Image: Walter De Maria, Silver Meters, 1976. Stainless steel and silver, 1 of 8 units, 3/4 x 39 3/8 x 39 3/8 inches. Dia Art Foundation. Photo: Jerry Thompson.
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St. Luke's Chamber Ensemble at Dia:Beacon, Baroque Reworked
Sunday, February 27, 2011, 2pm
Dia:Beacon, Riggio Galleries
3 Beekman Street, Beacon, NY 12508
845 440 0100 www.diaart.org
$35 general admission; $25 for Dia members; $10 students; children under 12 are free
Three-concert series subscriptions $85 or $70 for members.
Part of OSL's Muses & Origins series, this performance will include the premiere of a new work by Phil Kline inspired by a composition from the late Renaissance master Giovanni Gabrielli.
For more information, click here.
Image:St. Luke's Chamber Ensemble at Dia:Beacon.
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