Residents of Beacon and neighboring counties (Columbia, Dutchess, Greene, Orange, Putnam, Rockland, Sullivan, Ulster, and Westchester) are invited to visit Dia:Beacon free of charge on Saturday, July 14, 2012. Please bring a driver's license or other government-issued ID for entry to the museum.

Special programs include a collaborative tour of the collection and sites, From the Hudson River to Spiral Jetty: Reclaiming Nature through Art, led by Dia:Beacon Arts education associate, April Lee, and Clearwater Foundation director of shipboard education, Maija Niemisto. The tour will explore unique approaches to environmental activism through the work of Clearwater founder Pete Seeger, and Dia artists such as Joseph Beuys, Robert Smithson, and George Trakas. An interactive tour of the collection and hands-on workshop for all ages, Energy, Entropy, Cycles, will offer visitors the opportunity to explore these themes through the creation of simple switchboards and other mechanical functions.

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Andria Hickey is the associate curator at the Public Art Fund. Recent exhibitions include A Promise Is a Cloud, featuring new public art commissions by local and international artists, and Oscar Tuazon: People at Brooklyn Bridge Park through April 2013. Prior to joining Public Art Fund, she was the curator at Art in General, where she commissioned new works by Luis Jacob, Brendan Fernandes, and Emily Roysdon, among others. From 2007-10, she was the curatorial fellow in the department of Visual Arts at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. While at the Walker, Hickey collaborated on exhibitions including The Quick and the Dead (2008), Haegue Yang: Integrity of the Insider (2009), and Yves Klein: With the Void, Full Powers (2010), among others. Before joining the Walker, Hickey was an independent curator and writer, working in non-profit artist-run centers in Montreal and Newfoundland. Hickey completed her MA in Art History at Concordia University in Montreal and has contributed texts to a wide variety of journals and exhibition catalogues.  

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Christoph Cox is professor of philosophy at Hampshire College and a faculty member at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College. He is the author of Nietzsche: Naturalism and Interpretation and co-editor of Audio Culture: Readings in Modern Music. The recipient of a 2009 Creative Capital/Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant, Cox is editor-at-large at Cabinet magazine and writes regularly for Artforum, the Wire, and other publications. In 2009, Cox contributed the essay "Installation Duration: Time in Sound Works of Max Neuhaus" for Dia's publication Max Neuhaus: Times Square, Time Piece Beacon. He has curated exhibitions at the Kitchen, New York; Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston; New Langton Arts, San Francisco; and G Fine Art Gallery, Washington, D.C.; and has written catalog essays for exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Mass MoCA; Berlin's Akademie der Künste; among others. Cox is currently completing a philosophical book about sound art and experimental music. 

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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.

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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In conjunction with the current exhibition, Circa 1971: Early Video & Film from the EAI Archive, this panel will include artists Nancy Holt, Joan Jonas, Anthony Ramos, and Paul Ryan, all of whom are featured in the exhibition, to initiate a discussion on the generative artistic and political landscape that influenced the video art scene of the early 1970s. Moderated by Lori Zippay, director of EAI.