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Tickets now on sale for Robert Whitman's Passport (2010)
$25 general admission; $15 members, students, and seniors (includes museum admission)
Dia Art Foundation is pleased to announce the world premiere of Passport, a new theater piece by artist Robert Whitman, a pioneer of multimedia installation and performances.
This ambitious new work was co-commissioned by Dia and Peak Performances @ Montclair State (NJ) and will be performed simultaneously in two locations: outdoors at Riverfront Park, near Dia:Beacon, and indoors on the proscenium stage at the Alexander Kasser Theater at Montclair State University.
Saturday, April 16, and Sunday, April 17, 2011, 8pm
Round-trip coach transportation will be provided on both evenings between Manhattan and Beacon at an additional cost.
For event tickets, travel reservations, and more information on this special presentation, click here.
Robert Whitman, Passport, 2010. Rehearsal on the Hudson River, Beacon, NY, November 2010. Photo: Ben Bloom.
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Koo Jeong A: Perspectives from the Curator
Saturday, March 5, 2011, 2pmDia at the Hispanic SocietyBroadway between 155th and 156th Streets, New York, NY 10032 By subway, take number 1 train to 157th and Broadway 212 989 5566 www.diaart.orgFree to the general public.
Free shuttle transportation between Chelsea and The Hispanic Society will be provided as a courtesy to all attendees. Reservations required.
For event and travel reservations and more information, click here. Koo Jeong A: Perspectives from the Curator is an exclusive series of gallery talks led by Dia's curator Yasmil Raymond. These exhibition-related special events provide visitors a unique opportunity to view Koo Jeong A's Constellation Congress through the curator's eye, as Raymond distills her insights into the creation and realization of this three-part exhibition.
Image: Koo Jeong A, Ousss Sister, 2010. Black-and-white video, silent, 5:09 min. Courtesy the artist. "Koo Jeong A: Constellation Congress," Dia at the Hispanic Society of America. November 5, 2010-June 26, 2011. Photo: Cathy Carver, New York.
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Readings in Contemporary Poetry: John Ashbery and Paolo Javier
Thursday, March 10, 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.John Ashbery was born in 1927 in Rochester, NY. He earned degrees from Harvard and Columbia University and was a Fulbright Scholar in France. He has served as executive editor of ARTnews, art critic for New York Magazine and Newsweek, and was a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets from 1988 to 1999. His work, translated into more than twenty-five languages, has garnered numerous awards including a 2008 International Griffin Poetry Prize, two Guggenheim Fellowships, and a MacArthur Fellowship. Paolo Javier is the Queens Borough Poet Laureate. He is the author of four chapbooks and three full-length poetry collections, including The Feeling Is Actual (Fall 2011). Javier also edits 2nd Avenue Poetry and curates two reading series: PRJCTNS, devoted to live film narration and performance, and Queens Poet Lore, a roving poetry series set across the borough. 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: John Ashbery (left), photo: © Lynn Davis. Paolo Javier (right), photo: Serena Liu.
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Exhibition Machines: A Conversation with Philippe Vergne and Paul Chan at the New Museum
Thursday, March 10, 2011, 7pm
New Museum
235 Bowery, New York, NY 10002
212 219 1222 www.newmuseum.org
For tickets and more information, click here.
Philippe Vergne is the director of Dia Art Foundation, formerly serving as deputy director and chief curator of the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, where he inaugurated over twenty-five international exhibitions. He also co-curated the 2006 Whitney Biennial with Chrissie Iles.
Paul Chan is an artist who lives and works in New York. He has had recent solo exhibitions at the New Museum, New York; Serpentine Gallery, London; the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia; and Portikus, Frankfurt. Chan's single channel videos have been screened in film festivals worldwide, including the 2007 Sundance Film Festival.
This special event is part of The Now Museum conference organized by Independent Curators International, the PhD Program in Art History at CUNY Graduate Center, and the New Museum.
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Freeze Frame: An Afternoon with Herb and Dorothy
Saturday, March 12, 2011, 12pm
Dia:Beacon, Riggio Galleries
3 Beekman Street, Beacon, NY 12508
845 440 0100 www.diaart.org
For tickets, click here.
Join Dia:Beacon, 4th Wall Productions, and The Beacon Theatre for a special presentation of Herb and Dorothy (2008), a multi-award winning documentary film about the extraordinary true story of how one couple built a world-class art collection with modest means and an ingenious eye.
A panel discussion and reception with the filmmakers will immediately follow the screening.
For more information, click here.
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192 Books Presents: Zoe Leonard in Conversation with Anne Reynolds
Tuesday, March 15, 2011, 7pm
192 Books
192 10th Avenue, New York, NY 10011
212 255 4022 www.192books.org
Free to the general public. Seating is limited.
For more information and reservations, click here.
Zoe Leonard is a multimedia artist who has exhibited internationally since 1990. Together with Dia Art Foundation and Yale University Press, Leonard recently released Zoe Leonard: You see I am here after all (2010), a complement to her installation composed of vintage postcards of Niagara Falls, which was on view at Dia:Beacon from September 21, 2008 until January 9, 2011.
Ann Reynolds is associate professor in the department of art and art history and the Center for Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of Robert Smithson: Learning from New Jersey and Elsewhere (2003).
Books purchased at the event will be signed by the author.
Image: Cover of Zoe Leonard: You see I am here after all (2010).
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Artists on Artists Lecture: Laylah Ali on Joseph Beuys
Monday, March 21, 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.Laylah Ali was born in 1968 in Buffalo, NY, and currently lives and works in Williamstown, MA. Among her many solo exhibitions are recent presentations at deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA (2008); University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson (2008); Institute of International Visual Arts, London (2007); and Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia (2007). 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: Joseph Beuys (left), installation view of Fond III/3, 1979, and Fond IV/4, 1979. © Estate of Joseph Beuys/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn. Photo: Nic Tenwiggenhorn. Laylah Ali (right), Untitled from the "Typology" series, 2007. Ink on paper. Courtesy the artist.
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Gallery Talk: Doryun Chong on On Kawara
Saturday, March 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.
Doryun Chong is Associate Curator of Painting and Sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. His recent projects at MoMA include Projects 94: Henrik Olesen (2010) and Bruce Nauman: Days (2009).
For more information on upcoming Gallery Talks, click here.
Image: On Kawara, installation view at Dia:Beacon. Photo: Bill Jacobson.
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Last chance at Dia:Beacon: Andy Warhol, Shadows (1978-79)
On view through March 27, 2011
Dia:Beacon, Riggio Galleries
3 Beekman Street, Beacon, NY 12508
845 440 0100 www.diaart.org
Acquired by Dia as a single group, this monumental series of 102 rare abstract paintings is the culmination of Andy Warhol's interest in shadows, a focus of his work throughout the 1970s. Shadows, on view at Dia:Beacon since the museum opened in 2003, will travel to the Chicago Arts Club in April, 2011 and culminate at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC in October 2011.
For more information on Andy Warhol, Shadows (1978-79) click here.
Image: Andy Warhol, Shadows, 1978-79. Dia Art Foundation. © The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. Photo: Bill Jacobson
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