Soho projects open for the season
The New York Earth Room and The Broken Kilometer
 Wednesday, September 14, 2011 The Broken Kilometer 393 West Broadway, between Spring and Broome Streets The New York Earth Room 141 Wooster Street, between West Houston and Prince Streets
Free to the general public.
Open Wednesday-Sunday, 12-6 pm [closed from 3-3:30 pm]
After summer closure for yearly maintenance, The Broken Kilometer (1979) and The New York Earth Room (1977) -- Walter De Maria's iconic long-term installations and two of Dia's earliest commissions -- open to the public for the 2011-2012 season.
For more information on Dia's sites in New York City, click here.
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Colloquium at Dia:Beacon
Franz Erhard Walther's First Work Set:
Actions, Instructions, and Presence, 1963-1969
Saturday, September 17, 2011, 11 am-5 pm
Dia:Beacon, Riggio Galleries
3 Beekman Street, Beacon, NY 12508
845 440 0100
www.diaart.org
Free with museum admission.
To make a reservation, click here.
Stimulated by a desire to provoke new English-language scholarship on and inquiry into Franz Erhard Walther's oeuvre, this colloquium takes the exhibition "Work as Action" as an opportunity to invite writers, curators, scholars, fellow artists, and the public to respond directly to the landmark 58-element work First Work Set -- exhibited for the first time in its totality in the United States since 1969.
For a complete schedule, list of speakers, and more information, click here.
Support for this colloquium was provided by Marieluise Hessel and the Franz Erhard Walther Foundation. Additional support was provided by Peter Freeman, Inc., New York, and Galerie Jocelyn Wolff. |
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Exhibition opening at Dia:Beacon
Circa 1971: Early Video and Film from the EAI Archive
Saturday, September 17, 2011
Dia:Beacon, Riggio Galleries
3 Beekman Street, Beacon, NY 12508
845 440 0100
www.diaart.org
Celebrating the 40th anniversary of Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), Circa 1971 takes the organization's founding year as its point of departure and presents a series of 20 pioneering moving-image artworks from the EAI collection. The exhibition includes pieces by John Baldessari, Lynda Benglis, Nancy Holt and Robert Smithson, Joan Jonas, Gordon Matta-Clark, Nam June Paik, Carolee Schneemann, and others, shown continuously on CRT monitors and as projections among installations by artists of the same generation.
Organized by guest curator and EAI Executive Director Lori Zippay in collaboration with Dia's curatorial department.
For more information on Circa 1971, click here.
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Conversation at Dia:Chelsea
Franz Erhard Walther and Jennifer Winkworth
Monday, September 19, 2011, 6:30 pm
Dia:Chelsea
535 West 22nd Street, 5th Floor, New York City
212 989 5566
www.diaart.org
$6 general, $3 Dia members, students, and seniors.
Reservations highly recommended. Tickets available at the event only.
To make a reservation, click here.
Curator Jennifer Winkworth included Walther's First Work Set in her seminal exhibition, "Spaces," at the Museum of Modern Art, New York in 1969-1970. Winkworth is currently Vice President at the Musée d'Art Moderne et d'Art Contemporain, Nice, France.
This special program is held in conjunction with the colloquium Franz Erhard Walther's First Work Set: Actions, Instructions, and Presence, 1963-1969 at Dia:Beacon on Saturday, September 17.
For more information, click here.
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Readings in Contemporary Poetry
Anselm Berrigan and John Godfrey
Thursday, September 22, 2011, 2 pm
Dia:Chelsea
535 West 22nd Street, 5th Floor, New York City
212 989 5566
www.diaart.org
$6 general, $3 Dia members, students, and seniors.
To make a reservation, click here.
Anselm Berrigan's books of poetry include Free Cell (2009), Some Notes on My Programming (2006), Zero Star Hotel (2002), the chapbook Primitive State (2010) and the book-length poem Notes from Irrelevance (2011). He is the poetry editor for The Brooklyn Rail, co-editor of the recently published Selected Poems of Ted Berrigan (2011), and a member of the Subpress collective.
John Godfrey began writing and publishing poems while at Princeton University. His recent publications include City of Corners (2008), Private Lemonade (2003), and Push the Mule (2001), and his book Tiny Gold Dress is forthcoming in 2012. He has received fellowships and grants from the General Electric Foundation, the Foundation for Contemporary Art, and the Fund for Poetry.
For more information on Dia's Readings in Contemporary Poetry Series, click here.
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Gallery Talk at Dia:Beacon
Kaira Cabañas on Blinky Palermo
Saturday, September 24, 2011, 2 pm
Dia:Beacon, Riggio Galleries
3 Beekman Street, Beacon, NY 12508
845 440 0100
www.diaart.org
Free with museum admission.
To make a reservation, click here.
Kaira M. Cabañas is a Lecturer and Director of the MA program in Modern Art (MODA) at Columbia University. She received her Ph.D. from Princeton University in 2007 and is currently preparing her first book, The Myth of Nouveau Réalisme: Pierre Restany and the Neo-Avantgarde.
For more information on Dia:Beacon's series of Gallery Talks, click here.
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Smithsonian Magazine Museum Day
Free admission to Dia:Beacon
Saturday, September 24, 2011
Dia:Beacon, Riggio Galleries
3 Beekman Street, Beacon, NY 12508
845 440 0100
www.diaart.org
Museum Day ticket required for free entry. One ticket per household, for two people.
To download your official Museum Day ticket, click here.
Museum Day is an annual event hosted by Smithsonian Magazine in which institutions across the country offer free admission to anyone presenting a Museum Day Ticket. Dia:Beacon proudly supports this nationwide initiative as a participating museum.
For more information, click here.
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Blinky Palermo: Retrospective 1964-1977
Exhibition walkthrough with artist Cheryl Donegan
Sunday, September 25, 2011, 2 pm
Dia:Beacon, Riggio Galleries
3 Beekman Street, Beacon, NY 12508
845 440 0100
www.diaart.org
Free with museum admission.
To make a reservation, click here.
The third in a series of artist-led public programs coinciding with Blinky Palermo: Retrospective 1964-1977, contemporary artist Cheryl Donegan will guide visitors through the installation at Dia:Beacon, focusing on Palermo's late works in relation to his evolving practice.
Cheryl Donegan lives and works in New York. She received her B.F.A. in Painting at the Rhode Island School of Design and an M.F.A. at Hunter College in New York. Donegan emerged in the 1990s with video works that were direct, irreverent performances, infused with an ironic eroticism. More recently, in her paintings, Donegan derives abstraction from debased images of consumer objects and spaces. Her work has been exhibited internationally, including at The Museum of Modern Art, New York (2009); the Whitney Biennial, New York (1995); and the Venice Biennale (1993).
For more information on Dia's series of Artist Walkthroughs of the Palermo Retrospective, 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. |
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Images (in order of appearance): Franz Erhard Walther, Kopf Leib Glieder, 1967. "Franz Erhard Walther: Work as Action," Beacon, NY. Courtesy Dia Art Foundation, NY. Photo: Paula Court. Walter De Maria, The Broken Kilometer, 1979. Long-term installation at 393 West Broadway, New York City. Photo: John Abbott. Copyright Dia Art Foundation. Walter De Maria, The New York Earth Room, 1977. Long-term installation at 141 Wooster Street, New York City. Photo: John Cliett. Copyright Dia Art Foundation. Franz Erhard Walther, Weste, 1965. "Franz Erhard Walther: Work as Action," Dia:Beacon, Riggio Galleries, Beacon, NY. Courtesy Dia Art Foundation, NY. Photo: Paula Court. Franz Erhard Walther, installation view of "Franz Erhard Walther: Work as Action," Dia:Beacon, Riggio Galleries, Beacon, New York. Photo: David Allison. Nam June Paik, Jud Yalkut. "TV Cello Premiere," 1971. Courtesy Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), New York. Gordon Matta-Clark. "Chinatown Voyeur," 1971. Courtesy Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), New York. Franz Erhard Walther, Zentriert, (1967). "Franz Erhard Walther: Work as Action." Dia:Beacon, Riggio Galleries, Beacon, NY. Courtesy Dia Art Foundation, NY. Photo: Paula Court. Franz Erhard Walther, 8 Nesselplatten (1963), Zwei Pappröhren (Verlegenheitsstück) (1962), Zwei Gläser mit Reis (1963), and Handbrett I (1962/1963). Photo: David Allison. John Godfrey. Photo: John Sarsgaard. Kaira Cabañas. Photo: Marco Roso. Installation view of "Blinky Palermo: Retrospective 1964-1977" at Dia:Beacon. Photo by Bill Jacobson. Cheryl Donegan, Untitled (Dress/Kobu), 2011. Spray paint on canvas. Image courtesy the artist. Blinky Palermo, Graue Scheibe (Gray Disk), 1970. Oil, synthetic paint on cotton on wood-core plywood, 5 3/4 x 10 1/2 x 3/4 inches (13.1 x 26.5 x 1.8 cm). Collection Olga Lina and Stella Liza Knoebel.
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