Koo Jeong A: Perspectives from the Curator
Saturday, April 2, 2011, 2 pm Dia:Beacon, Riggio Galleries3 Beekman Street, Beacon, NY 12508 845 440 0100 www.diaart.org
Free with museum admission.
For reservations, 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, A Reality Upgrade & End Alone, 2003/2010. Rhinestones. "Koo Jeong A: Constellation Congress," Dia:Beacon, Beacon, NY. Dia Art Foundation. Courtesy the artist. Photo: Cathy Carver, New York.
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Artists on Artists Lecture: Josephine Meckseper on Hanne Darboven
Monday, April 4, 2011, 6:30 pm
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.Josephine Meckseper was born in 1964 in Lilienthal, Germany, and currently lives in New York. Among her many solo exhibitions are recent presentations at Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana (2009); The Art Museum of the University of Houston, Texas (2009); migros museum für gegenwartskunst, Zurich, Switzerland (2009); and Museum of Modern Art, New York (2008). Image: (left) Hanne Darboven. Kulturgeschichte 1880-1983, 1980-1983. Installation view at Dia:Beacon. Photo: Cathy Carver, New York. (right) Installation view, Josephine Meckseper, FLAG Art Foundation, New York, 2011. Photo credit: Genevieve Hanson.
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| Community Free Day at Dia:Beacon featuring award-winning author Susan Goldman Rubin
Saturday, April 9, 2011, 11 am-4 pm
Dia:Beacon, Riggio Galleries
3 Beekman Street, Beacon, NY 12508
845 440 0100 www.diaart.org
Residents of Columbia, Dutchess, Greene, Orange, Putnam, Rockland, Sullivan, Ulster, and Westchester Counties are invited to visit Dia:Beacon free of charge. Please bring a driver's license or other government-issued ID for entry to the museum.
Programs are also open to the general public and are free with museum admission.
For complete information, click here.
11:00 am - Children's reading and book signing by award-winning author Susan Goldman Rubin Susan Goldman Rubin lives in Malibu, California, and has written more than 45 books for young people, including Andy Warhol: Pop Art Painter, a 2007 ALA Notable Book. She has been an instructor in the UCLA Extension Writers Program for over 20 years and has also discussed her work on the Today Show, BBC Radio and C-Span. Reservations for the reading are recommended and can be made by clicking here or calling 845.440.0100 x23. 12:00 pm - Introducing Dia:Beacon Tour led by Susan Sayre Batton, managing director, Dia:Beacon. 1:00 pm - Family tours of the collection Family tours for children ages 5+ (accompanied by an adult) 2:00 pm - Conversations with Museum Guides Image: Susan Goldman Rubin. right: Breaking the Rules, What is Contemporary Art?, 2010 |
Robert Whitman, Passport (2011)
 Saturday, April 16, and Sunday, April 17, 2011, 8 pm Riverfront Park near Dia:Beacon
3 Beekman Street, Beacon, NY 12508
845 440 0100 www.diaart.org
$25 general admission; $15 members, students, and seniors (includes museum admission) Dia Art Foundation is pleased to announce the world premiere of Passport, a theater piece by Robert Whitman, pioneer of multimedia installation and performances. Co-commissioned by Dia and Peak Performances @ Montclair State University, the ambitious work will be performed simultaneously in two places: outside on the banks of the Hudson River near Dia:Beacon, and indoors at the Alexander Kasser Theater at Montclair State University in New Jersey. 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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Readings in Contemporary Poetry: Michael Lally and Brenda Iijima
Thursday, March 10, 2011, 6:30 pmDia: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.Michael Lally's publications include the 2006 edition of the long poem March 18, 2003 written in protest on the eve of the invasion of Iraq and illustrated by Alex Katz with a preface by Vincent Katz. Lally has worked as a film and TV actor on shows, NYPD Blue, Deadwood, and in the film, Drugstore Cowboy. He is also the author of Lally's Alley, a blog covering poetry, movies, and politics, among other topics. Brenda Iijima was born in North Adams, Massachusetts. She is the author of Around Sea (O Books), Animate, Inanimate Aims (Litmus Press), revv. you'll-ution (Displaced Press) and If Not Metamorphic (Ahsahta Press) as well as numerous chapbooks and artists' books. She is also the editor of eco language reader (Nightboat Books) and Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs. This series is supported in part by Barbara and Charles Wright and an anonymous donor. Image: Michael Lally (left), photo: Philipa Scott. Brenda Iijima (right).
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Gallery Talk: Anthony Huberman on Franz Erhard Walther
Saturday, April 30, 2011, 2 pm
Dia:Beacon, Riggio Galleries
3 Beekman Street, Beacon, NY 12508
845 440 0100 www.diaart.org
Free with museum admission. For reservations, click here.
Anthony Huberman is a curator and writer based in New York. As Chief Curator of the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, he organized exhibitions with Gedi Sibony, Lutz Bacher, Bruce Nauman, John Armleder, and Olivier Mosset, and initiated The Front Room, an ongoing series with young artists. He has worked as a curator at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris and at Sculpture Center in New York, and is currently a Visiting Professor at Hunter College.
For more information on upcoming Gallery Talks, click here.
Image: Franz Erhard Walther, installation view of "Franz Erhard Walther: Work as Action," Dia:Beacon, Riggio Galleries, Beacon, New York. October 2, 2010-February 13, 2012. Photo: David Allison.
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