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June 29 to July 29, 2017

Special Event

Community Free Day


Dia Beacon

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08/07/2017 11:00 08/07/2017 06:00 America/New_York Community Free Day Dia:Beacon’s quarterly Community Free Days offer engaging programs suitable for a broad audience, including thematic tours of the collection and special exhibitions, DiaTalks, interactive workshops for children and families, and performances. Admission is free for residents of Columbia, Dutchess, Greene, Orange, Putnam, Rockland, Sullivan, Ulster, and Westchester counties. Event DetailsSaturday, July 8, 201711 am–6 pm  Dia:Beacon, Riggio Galleries3 Beekman StreetBeacon, New York Please bring a driver’s license or other government-issued ID for entry to the museum. Schedule 11:30 amFamily Tour: Moving through ColorExplore the work of John Chamberlain, Dan Flavin, and Blinky Palermo with hands-on exercises that invite families and children of all ages to see, think, and make in new ways. (1 hour)  1 pmMaterial Play: Live ScoresDrawing on the work of Bruce Nauman, families and children of all ages create and perform live scores together in this outdoor drop-in program. (2 hours) 1 pmAfter TruittMellon Curatorial Fellow Liz Hirsch leads an in-gallery conversation on Anne Truitt’s work and its impact. (1 hour)  2:30 pmDiaTalksAnna Lovatt leads a focused talk on Michelle Stuart. (1 hour)  4 pmCollection Tour: Palpable SpaceJoin a Dia educator for an engaging and thematic gallery walkthrough focusing on selected artworks on view at Dia:Beacon. (1 hour)  4 pmBeer TastingEnjoy beers from Beacon-based microbrewery 2 Way Brewing Company. (1 hour) Funding Community Free Day at Dia:Beacon is made possible, in part, through the New York State Council on the Arts, a State agency. Community Free Day is part of the Sackler Institute at Dia Art Foundation.     Dia Beacon FALSE DD/MM/YYYY Community Free Day

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Family Tour: Moving through Color


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08/07/2017 11:30 08/07/2017 23:45 America/New_York Family Tour: Moving through Color Event DetailsSaturday, July 8, 2017, 11:30 am Dia:Beacon, Riggio Galleries3 Beekman StreetBeacon, New York Family-friendly tour.Free with museum admission.Reservations required at the admissions desk.  This event is part of Community Free Day. Explore the work of John Chamberlain, Dan Flavin, and Blinky Palermo with hands-on exercises that invite families and children of all ages to see, think, and make in new ways. (1 hour) Cheri EhrlichCheri Ehrlich, Ed.D., is an art and museum educator with a doctorate from Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, in art and art education. Her research on adolescents, critical pedagogies, feminist art, and museum education appears in art-education journals and books. She is an assistant adjunct professor of art education at Brooklyn College and City College at the City University of New York, and Moore College of Art and Design, Philadelphia. Ehrlich is an educator at Dia:Beacon.     Dia Beacon FALSE DD/MM/YYYY Family Tour: Moving through Color

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Material Play: Live Score


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08/07/2017 13:00 08/07/2017 23:45 America/New_York Material Play: Live Score Event DetailsSaturday, July 8, 2017, 1 pm Dia:Beacon, Riggio Galleries3 Beekman StreetBeacon, New York Free with museum admission.Family-friendly, drop-in program.No reservations required. This event is part of Community Free Day.  Drawing on the work of Bruce Nauman, families and children of all ages create and perform live scores together in this outdoor drop-in program. (2 hours)  This program takes place outdoors, weather permitting.  Saretta MorganSaretta Morgan received a BA in creative writing from Columbia University and an MFA from Pratt Institute, both in New York. Her writing engages relationships between intimacy and organization. She has designed interactive text-based experiences for the Whitney Museum of American Art, Tenri Cultural Institute, Tamaas Cross-Cultural Organization, and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Workspace, all in New York. Morgan is a guest educator at Dia:Beacon. Isaac PoolIsaac Pool is a multidisciplinary artist based in New York. Recent performances and exhibitions have taken place at Judson Memorial Church, Knockdown Center, and LaMaMa Galleria, New York, Cave Gallery, Detroit, and Mindscape Universe, Berlin. Pool’s publications include Light Stain (What Pipeline, 2015) and Alien She (Klaus eBooks, 2013). Pool is an educator at Dia:Beacon and Dia:Chelsea.     Dia Beacon FALSE DD/MM/YYYY Material Play: Live Score

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After Truitt


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08/07/2017 13:00 08/07/2017 23:45 America/New_York After Truitt Event DetailsSaturday, July 8, 2017, 1 pm Dia:Beacon, Riggio Galleries3 Beekman StreetBeacon, New York Free with museum admission.No reservations required. This event is part of Community Free Day. Mellon Curatorial Fellow Liz Hirsch leads an in-gallery conversation on Anne Truitt’s work and its impact. (1 hour) Liz HirschLiz Hirsch is a writer, art historian, and the 2016–17 Mellon Curatorial Fellow at Dia Art Foundation. A doctoral candidate in the PhD program in art history at the Graduate Center, City University of New York, she has served as an adjunct lecturer at Hunter College, Brooklyn College, and the Spitzer School of Architecture at City College. Her writing has appeared in ARTnews, The Brooklyn Rail, T Magazine, and the recent publication The Heroine Paint: After Frankenthaler, edited by Katy Siegel (Gagosian/Rizzoli, 2015).     Dia Beacon FALSE DD/MM/YYYY After Truitt

Dia Talks

Anna Lovatt on Michelle Stuart


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08/07/2017 14:30 08/07/2017 15:30 America/New_York Anna Lovatt on Michelle Stuart Event Details Saturday, July 8, 2017, 2:30 pm Dia:Beacon 3 Beekman Street Beacon, New York Free with museum admission. No reservations required. Anna Lovatt is the Marguerite Hoffman Scholar in Residence in the department of art history at Southern Methodist University in Dallas. Her work focuses on drawing in art of the 1960s and 1970s and she has published on the work of artists including Rosemarie Castoro, Sol LeWitt, Agnes Martin, Dorothea Rockburne, Anne Truitt, and Ruth Vollmer. In 2013–14 she organized the exhibition Michelle Stuart: Drawn from Nature, which traveled to the Djanogly Art Gallery, Nottingham, England, the Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, New York, and the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, California. A book published in 2013 by Hatje Cantz accompanied the exhibition. Lovatt’s second book, titled Drawing Degree Zero: The Line from Minimal to Conceptual Art, is forthcoming from Penn State University Press.     Dia Beacon FALSE DD/MM/YYYY Anna Lovatt on Michelle Stuart

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Collection Tour: Palpable Space


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08/07/2017 16:00 08/07/2017 23:45 America/New_York Collection Tour: Palpable Space Event DetailsSaturday, July 8, 2017, 4 pm Dia:Beacon, Riggio Galleries3 Beekman StreetBeacon, New York  Public tour.Free with museum admission.Reservations required at the admissions desk. This event is part of Community Free Day. Join Dia educator Suzy Sureck for an engaging and thematic gallery walkthrough focusing on selected artworks on view at Dia:Beacon. (1 hour) Suzy SureckSuzy Sureck is a multimedia artist whose sculptural installations, drawings, videos, and photographs involve the physical and metaphoric qualities of light, shadow, water, and wind with attention to site and environment. Her works have been exhibited in Australia, Europe, India, Korea, the Middle East, and the United States. Sureck received an MA in sculpture from Cranbrook, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, a BFA from Cooper Union, New York, and studied at the Slade School of Art, London. She teaches drawing, sculpture, and seminars in contemporary art at Queens College, New York. She lives and works in Gardiner, New York, and New York City. Sureck is an educator at Dia:Beacon.     Dia Beacon FALSE DD/MM/YYYY Collection Tour: Palpable Space

Members’ Event

Closing Tour of Hanne Darboven and Kishio Suga


Dia Chelsea

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25/07/2017 18:30 25/07/2017 15:30 America/New_York Closing Tour of Hanne Darboven and Kishio Suga Event DetailsTuesday, July 25, 6:30–7:30 pm Dia:Chelsea541 and 545 West 22nd StreetNew York City Join us for an educator-led tour of Hanne Darboven’s Kulturgeschichte 1880–1983 (Cultural History 1880–1983, 1980–83) and Kishio Suga­ during the exhibitions’ final days on view at Dia:Chelsea. The tour will begin at 545 West 22nd Street. For all members. Join or renew today. RSVP to Irene Koo by July 21 to ikoo@diaart.org or 212 293 5602.     Dia Chelsea FALSE DD/MM/YYYY Closing Tour of Hanne Darboven and Kishio Suga

Concert

Hanne Darboven, Opus 18B


Dia Chelsea

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29/07/2017 15:00 29/07/2017 23:45 America/New_York Hanne Darboven, Opus 18B Event DetailsSaturday, July 29, 2017, 3 pm Dia:Chelsea545 West 22nd StreetNew York City Free with admission. No reservations required.  In conjunction with the installation of Hanne Darboven’s Kulturgeschichte 1880–1983 (Cultural History 1880–1983, 1980–83), Dia Art Foundation presents four performances of Darboven’s musical compositions for double bass. Completed in 1984, Wunschkonzert is both a large-scale visual installation and a four-part musical score for double bass, featuring Opus 17A, Opus 17B, Opus 18A, and Opus 18B. Opus 17A was first presented at the 1996 opening of Cultural History 1880–1983 at Dia Center for the Arts. In addition to Opus 17A, Robert Black, who performed the work in 1996, performs the three companion pieces—Opus 17B, Opus 18A, and Opus 18B. All four concerts take place within the installation at Dia:Chelsea to allow visitors to experience a live performance of Darboven’s musical work within the all-encompassing visual impact of her installation. Robert BlackRobert Black is a musician and composer for the solo double bass who collaborates with actors, artists, composers, dancers, musicians, and technophiles. He is a founding and current member of the musical group Bang on a Can All-Stars. Current projects include a Philip Glass commission for a seven-movement solo partita, which includes recited poetry by seven New York-based musicians and poets, and Possessed, a series of solo improvisatory performances in Utah’s rugged landscape. His CD recordings include State of the Bass (O. O. Discs, 1994), Christian Wolff: Look She Said (Complete Works for Bass) (Mode Records, 2002), Giacinto Scelsi: The Works for Double Bass (Mode Records, 2008), and Modern American Bass (New World Records, 2011), in addition to many recordings for Bang on a Can All-Stars (Cantaloupe Records). Black teaches at the Hartt School at the University of Hartford in Connecticut, Manhattan School of Music in New York, and the Festival Eleazar de Carvalho in Brazil.     Dia Chelsea FALSE DD/MM/YYYY Hanne Darboven, Opus 18B

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