Last week, Dia Art Foundation announced its return to the Chelsea neighborhood that it helped to pioneer, outlining plans to construct a new 22,000-square-foot project space on West 22nd Street. Designed by Roger Duffy, design partner at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, the space will serve as a center for new projects and programs in the heart of New York's art world, and as a central lookout point for the constellation of sites and programs that embody Dia's mission to advance, realize, and preserve the visions of extraordinary artists.

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Fionn Meade is a faculty member at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, and in the MFA program for Visual Arts, Columbia University. He was recently the curator at SculptureCenter, New York, and was previously a curator at the Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, and worked with Tom Eccles on Rachel Harrison: Consider the Lobster, and Maria Lind on The Greenroom: Reconsidering the Documentary and Contemporary Art at the Hessel Museum of Art and CCS Bard Galleries. His writing appears in Artforum, Bomb, Bidoun, the Fillip Review, Mousse, Spike Quarterly, and Parkett, among other publications, and he was the recipient of an Arts Writers Grant from Creative Capital | Andy Warhol Foundation. Recent catalog writing includes essays on Elad Lassry for the Kunsthalle Zürich (JRP|Ringier), and Mark Morrisroe for the Fotomuseum Winterthur (JRP|Ringier).

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Opus + One is the first comprehensive exhibition in North America devoted to the work of Paris-based artist Jean-Luc Moulène. A new project, Monochromes/Samples (2011), on the ground floor gallery at the Dan Flavin Art Institute accompanies the installation at Dia:Beacon, Riggio Galleries.

The second floor gallery has a permanent installation of Flavin's work. Conceived by the artist in 1983, the presentation includes nine works in fluorescent light created between 1963, when Flavin decided to work solely with standard fluorescent fixtures and tubes, and 1981, shortly before the Dan Flavin Art Institute was realized.

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