Saturday, October 13, 2012, 11 am-6 pm

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, October 13, 2012. Please bring a driver's license or other government-issued ID for entry to the museum.

Special programs include: Exploring LeWitt's Lines, which starts with a tour of the Sol LeWitt galleries and ends with an interactive workshop where participants will collaboratively create an example of a LeWitt wall drawing; "The art of seeing takes an effort," led by Roger Lipsey, PhD, and presented in collaboration with the Garrison Institute, will be a tour of works by Richard Serra, Agnes Martin, and Sol LeWitt considering a contemplative approach to viewing art; and Lost and Found: Exploring the Internal Cartography of Experience, an investigation led by installation artist Daniel Oates-Kuhn into the geographic and chronological characteristics of Dia:Beacon's collection.

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Saturday, October 13, 2012, 2 pm

Veronica Roberts is a curator based in New York. She is director of research for the Sol LeWitt: Wall Drawings catalogue raisonné and adjunct associate curator of contemporary art at the Indianapolis Museum of Art. 

Thursday, October 18, 2012, 6:30 pm

Jim Dine is the author of numerous books of poetry and memoirs, the most recent of which is 52 Books. His paintings, sculptures, photography, and prints have been the subject of nine major surveys and retrospectives since 1970. Jim Dine will be accompanied by bassist, Marc Marder. 

Karen Weiser is the author of To Light Out, a collection of poems from Ugly Duckling Presse. She lives in New York City and received her PhD from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.

Free with museum admission. 

Discussions have been held at international venues, including the California Institute of the Arts, Los Angeles (1971); New York University (1971, 1977); Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven (1976-83, 1985, 1986, 2009); Documenta 7, Kassel (1982); and the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (1981, 2005).
 
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Tuesday-Saturday 12-6 pm  

Admission is free.

Thomas Hirschhorn was born in 1957 in Bern, Switzerland.His work has recently been exhibited at venues, including the Bienal de São Paulo (2006), Carnegie International, Pittsburgh (2008), and the Swiss Pavilion at the 54th Venice Biennale (2011).

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Through December 31, 2012

Dan Flavin Art Institute

Corwith Avenue Bridgehampton New York

Jean-Luc Moulène was born in 1955 in Reims, France. His work has been exhibited at international venues, including Documenta 10, Kassel (1997); the Bienal de São Paulo (2002); the 50th Venice Biennale (2003); Center for Contemporary Art, Kitakyushu, Japan (2004); Musée du Louvre, Paris (2005); and Carré d'art-Musée d'art contemporain, Nîmes, France (2009).

Through December 31, 2012

Circa 1971 presents a selection of video and film works by key figures in early video art from the collection of Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI). The exhibition includes work by Eleanor Antin, John Baldessari, Gordon Matta-Clark, Nam June Paik, Carolee Schneemann, TVTV, and Steina and Woody Vasulka, among others.

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