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April 23 to May 23, 2017

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François Chaignaud & Cecilia Bengolea


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12/05/2017 15:00 12/05/2017 23:45 America/New_York François Chaignaud & Cecilia Bengolea Over two weekends from May 12–14 and May 19–21, François Chaignaud and Cecilia Bengolea’s program at Dia:Beacon traces the trajectory of the artists’ twelve-year creative partnership. Each performance includes three consecutive episodes, transitioning through the layered references that inform their collaborative work—from the musical structures of polyphonic singing, through the transcendent dance of Sylphides (2009), to the recent ensemble work Dub Love (2014). Event DetailsFriday, May 12, 2017, 3 pm Dia:Beacon3 Beekman StreetBeacon, NY 12508 The program will be staged in Dia:Beacon’s lower-level gallery.  Free with museum admission. Reservations are not required, but recommended.  Cecilia Bengolea was born in Buenos Aires in 1979. She lives and works in Paris.  François Chaignaud was born in Rennes, France, in 1983. He lives and works in Paris.      Dia Beacon FALSE DD/MM/YYYY François Chaignaud & Cecilia Bengolea

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François Chaignaud & Cecilia Bengolea


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13/05/2017 15:00 13/05/2017 23:45 America/New_York François Chaignaud & Cecilia Bengolea Over two weekends from May 12–14 and May 19–21, François Chaignaud and Cecilia Bengolea’s program at Dia:Beacon traces the trajectory of the artists’ twelve-year creative partnership. Each performance includes three consecutive episodes, transitioning through the layered references that inform their collaborative work—from the musical structures of polyphonic singing, through the transcendent dance of Sylphides (2009), to the recent ensemble work Dub Love (2014). Event DetailsSaturday, May 13, 2017, 3 pm Dia:Beacon3 Beekman StreetBeacon, NY 12508 The program will be staged in Dia:Beacon’s lower-level gallery.  Free with museum admission. Reservations are not required, but recommended.  Cecilia Bengolea was born in Buenos Aires in 1979. She lives and works in Paris.  François Chaignaud was born in Rennes, France, in 1983. He lives and works in Paris.      Dia Beacon FALSE DD/MM/YYYY François Chaignaud & Cecilia Bengolea

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François Chaignaud & Cecilia Bengolea


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14/05/2017 15:00 14/05/2017 23:45 America/New_York François Chaignaud & Cecilia Bengolea Over two weekends from May 12–14 and May 19–21, François Chaignaud and Cecilia Bengolea’s program at Dia:Beacon traces the trajectory of the artists’ twelve-year creative partnership. Each performance includes three consecutive episodes, transitioning through the layered references that inform their collaborative work—from the musical structures of polyphonic singing, through the transcendent dance of Sylphides (2009), to the recent ensemble work Dub Love (2014). Event DetailsFriday, May 14, 2017, 3 pm Dia:Beacon3 Beekman StreetBeacon, NY 12508 The program will be staged in Dia:Beacon’s lower-level gallery.  Free with museum admission. Reservations are not required, but recommended.  Cecilia Bengolea was born in Buenos Aires in 1979. She lives and works in Paris.  François Chaignaud was born in Rennes, France, in 1983. He lives and works in Paris.      Dia Beacon FALSE DD/MM/YYYY François Chaignaud & Cecilia Bengolea

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15/05/2017 18:30 15/05/2017 00:00 America/New_York François Chaignaud and Cecilia Bengolea with Kelly Kivland On the occasion of François Chaignaud and Cecilia Bengolea’s performances at Dia:Beacon, the Cultural Services of the French Embassy will host a conversation with the Paris-based choreographers and Dia associate curator Kelly Kivland. Event Details Monday, May 15, 2017, 6:30 pm  Cultural Services of the French Embassy972 Fifth AvenueNew York City Free; no reservations required.   For more information, visit www.frenchculture.org. Cecilia Bengolea was born in Buenos Aires in 1979. She lives and works in Paris.  François Chaignaud was born in Rennes, France, in 1983. He lives and works in Paris.  Chaignaud and Bengolea have been collaborating since 2004. Their work has been presented at the Festival d’Avignon, Tanz im August in Berlin, Festival Montpellier Danse, Tate Modern and Sadler’s Wells Theatre in London, Lyon Biennial, Abrons Art Center and the Kitchen in New York, Centre Pompidou and Festival d’Automne in Paris, and Impulstanz in Vienna. In 2014 they received the Young Artist Prize at the Gwangju Biennial in Korea, and in 2009 they received the Prix de la révélation chorégraphique from the Syndicat de la critique in Paris. Their choreographed work includes Pâquerette (2005–08), Sylphides (2009), Castor et Pollux (2010), (M)IMOSA (cowritten and performed with Trajal Harrell and Marlene Monteiro Freitas; 2011), altered natives’ Say Yes to Another Excess – TWERK (2012), Dub Love (2014), and DFS – CREATION (2016). In recent years, they have realized commissions with the Ballet de l’Opéra de Lyon (HOW SLOW THE WIND, 2014), Ballet de Lorraine (DEVOTED, 2015), and TanzTheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch (The Lighters – Dancehall Polyphony, 2015).     FALSE DD/MM/YYYY François Chaignaud and Cecilia Bengolea with Kelly Kivland

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François Chaignaud & Cecilia Bengolea


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19/05/2017 15:00 19/05/2017 23:45 America/New_York François Chaignaud & Cecilia Bengolea Over two weekends from May 12–14 and May 19–21, François Chaignaud and Cecilia Bengolea’s program at Dia:Beacon traces the trajectory of the artists’ twelve-year creative partnership. Each performance includes three consecutive episodes, transitioning through the layered references that inform their collaborative work—from the musical structures of polyphonic singing, through the transcendent dance of Sylphides (2009), to the recent ensemble work Dub Love (2014). Event DetailsFriday, May 19, 2017, 3 pm Dia:Beacon3 Beekman StreetBeacon, NY 12508 The program will be staged in Dia:Beacon’s lower-level gallery.  Free with museum admission. Reservations are not required, but recommended.  Cecilia Bengolea was born in Buenos Aires in 1979. She lives and works in Paris.  François Chaignaud was born in Rennes, France, in 1983. He lives and works in Paris.      Dia Beacon FALSE DD/MM/YYYY François Chaignaud & Cecilia Bengolea

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François Chaignaud & Cecilia Bengolea


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20/05/2017 15:00 20/05/2017 23:45 America/New_York François Chaignaud & Cecilia Bengolea Over two weekends from May 12–14 and May 19–21, François Chaignaud and Cecilia Bengolea’s program at Dia:Beacon traces the trajectory of the artists’ twelve-year creative partnership. Each performance includes three consecutive episodes, transitioning through the layered references that inform their collaborative work—from the musical structures of polyphonic singing, through the transcendent dance of Sylphides (2009), to the recent ensemble work Dub Love (2014). Event DetailsFriday, May 20, 2017, 3 pm Dia:Beacon3 Beekman StreetBeacon, NY 12508 The program will be staged in Dia:Beacon’s lower-level gallery.  Free with museum admission. Reservations are not required, but recommended.  Cecilia Bengolea was born in Buenos Aires in 1979. She lives and works in Paris.  François Chaignaud was born in Rennes, France, in 1983. He lives and works in Paris.      Dia Beacon FALSE DD/MM/YYYY François Chaignaud & Cecilia Bengolea

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François Chaignaud & Cecilia Bengolea


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21/05/2017 15:00 21/05/2017 23:45 America/New_York François Chaignaud & Cecilia Bengolea Over two weekends from May 12–14 and May 19–21, François Chaignaud and Cecilia Bengolea’s program at Dia:Beacon traces the trajectory of the artists’ twelve-year creative partnership. Each performance includes three consecutive episodes, transitioning through the layered references that inform their collaborative work—from the musical structures of polyphonic singing, through the transcendent dance of Sylphides (2009), to the recent ensemble work Dub Love (2014). Event DetailsFriday, May 21, 2017, 3 pm Dia:Beacon3 Beekman StreetBeacon, NY 12508 The program will be staged in Dia:Beacon’s lower-level gallery.  Free with museum admission. Reservations are not required, but recommended.  Cecilia Bengolea was born in Buenos Aires in 1979. She lives and works in Paris.  François Chaignaud was born in Rennes, France, in 1983. He lives and works in Paris.      Dia Beacon FALSE DD/MM/YYYY François Chaignaud & Cecilia Bengolea

Dia Talks

Josh Kline on Dan Graham


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Artists on Artists Lecture Series

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25/04/2017 18:30 25/04/2017 23:45 America/New_York Josh Kline on Dan Graham Event DetailsTuesday, April 25, 2017, 6:30 pmDia:Chelsea535 West 22nd Street, 5th FloorNew York City Free for Dia members; $10 general admission; $6 admission for students and seniors Advance tickets are no longer available. Walk up tickets will be sold based on availability.Josh Kline was born in Philadelphia in 1979. Recent solo exhibitions include Unemployment at the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy (2016), and Freedom at both the Portland Art Museum, Oregon (2016), and Modern Art Oxford (2015). In 2016, his work was also included in the Berlin Biennale and group exhibitions at venues including Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC, and White Cube, London. He currently lives and works in New York City.     Dia Chelsea FALSE DD/MM/YYYY Josh Kline on Dan Graham

Book Launch

Robert Ryman Book Launch


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Book Launches

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29/04/2017 14:30 29/04/2017 23:45 America/New_York Robert Ryman Book Launch Event DetailsSaturday, April 29, 2017, 2:30 pm Dia:Beacon3 Beekman StreetBeacon, NY 12508 A conversation with two of Robert Ryman’s sons, Cordy and Ethan Ryman, and Dia deputy director and chief curator, Courtney J. Martin, will occur at 2:30 pm. Books will be available for purchase. Free with museum admission. Reservations encouraged.  Generous support for Robert Ryman has been provided by the Fundación Jumex Arte Contemporáneo and the Audrey Irmas Foundation for Social Justice, and additional support was provided by Anthony Grant and the Marx Family Advised Fund at Aspen Community Foundation. A publication of the Sackler Institute at Dia Art Foundation.     Dia Beacon FALSE DD/MM/YYYY Robert Ryman Book Launch

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Sam Falls on Robert Irwin


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Artists on Artists Lecture Series

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02/05/2017 18:30 02/05/2017 23:45 America/New_York Sam Falls on Robert Irwin Event DetailsTuesday, May 2, 2017, 6:30 pm Dia:Chelsea535 West 22nd Street, 5th FloorNew York City Free for Dia members; $10 general admission; $6 admission for students and seniors Advance ticket purchases recommended. Tickets are also available for purchase at the door, subject to availability.Sam Falls was born in San Diego in 1984. Recent solo exhibitions have been presented at Ballroom Marfa, Texas, Fondazione Giuliani, Rome, and the Kitchen, New York City (all in 2015). He has realized several public works including Light Over Time, a multisite project with the Public Art Fund in New York City (2014–15), Untitled (Healing pavilion…) at Collins Park, Miami (2015), and Untitled (Tuileries Colored Sculpture) in Jardins des Tuileries, Paris (2013). He lives and works in Los Angeles.     Dia Chelsea FALSE DD/MM/YYYY Sam Falls on Robert Irwin

Poetry Reading

Eleni Sikelianos and Will Alexander


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Readings in Contemporary Poetry

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09/05/2017 18:30 09/05/2017 23:45 America/New_York Eleni Sikelianos and Will Alexander Event DetailsTuesday, May 9, 2017, 6:30 pmDia:Chelsea535 West 22nd Street, 5th FloorNew York City  Readings in Contemporary Poetry curator, Vincent Katz provided an introduction for the evening's reading. Free for Dia members; $10 general admission; $6 admission for students and seniors Advance ticket purchases recommended. Tickets are also available for purchase at the door, subject to availability.  Eleni SikelianosEleni Sikelianos is the author of ten books of poetry and hybrid works, most recently Make Yourself Happy (Coffee House Press, 2017). These works frequently employ a range of forms (poetry, prose, document, and visual) and fields (often the sciences) as a means to explore ways of being and knowing. She has collaborated widely with other artists, including composer Philip Glass and filmmaker Ed Bowes. Her work has earned her two National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, a New York Foundation for the Arts award, and a National Poetry Series selection, among other awards. A frequent participant in international festivals and programs, her poems and hybrid works have been translated into over a dozen languages. Sikélianòs has taught poetry in public schools, homeless shelters, and prisons, and is part of the guest faculty at the Naropa University Summer Writing Program in Boulder, Colorado. She currently teaches at the University of Denver, where she founded and runs the Writers in the Schools program.  from Your Kingdomyou arrange your syllables like a flockof self-forming starlings in a draft aimed outyour mouth and at an ear—there isanother here—you see the dimtraceries of human faces, charcoal in a night chamberbut also so palea pupil could not find such a pearlin a milk pool and other hues as the toneworld presents itself as sculpted and so you rise to greet it, sing, around the timetight patches of photoreceptors amassinto the absurdity of eyes which have to develop50, a hundred times and birdsdo it better than you, youstumble at the gate with the sharksand hummingbirds, a photon hits an opsin and tripsa switch and you learn to bend the light, transparentcrystallins clumping like jelly and itgoes opaque—were yousupposed to keep those feathers?if not for flight, why? Will AlexanderWill Alexander is a poet, novelist, essayist, philosopher, aphorist, playwright, visual artist, and pianist. He is author of thirty collections of writing in the above-mentioned genres. He is a recipient of the Whiting Fellowship for Poetry, California Arts Council Fellowship, PEN Oakland-Josephine Miles Literary Award, American Book Award, and Jackson Poetry Prize. His work has been translated into French, German, Romanian, and Spanish. Beginning After-ExistenceOn the threshing floorthere are spiders which astonishwith replications which irradiate which strike resistance which terrify which de-foil carnivorous amoebas with each fiber with each mandible with each blood knot gone astray flailing embryonic shifting out of red or exerted magma threading their weight throughout a melanotic angle into ghostly osmosis     Dia Chelsea FALSE DD/MM/YYYY Eleni Sikelianos and Will Alexander

Special Event

Community Free Day


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13/05/2017 11:00 13/05/2017 18:00 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, May 13, 201711 am–6 pm Dia:Beacon, Riggio Galleries3 Beekman StreetBeacon, NY 12508 Please bring a driver’s license or other government-issued ID for entry to the museum. Schedule 11 amLight PartyJoin young artists from Beacon High School to explore how digital media can inform and contribute to a shared experience in the Dia:Beacon galleries. (1.5 hours) 11:30 amBeing in the MakingFamilies and children of all ages discover together how artworks at Dia:Beacon are continuously in the making with artist educator Hannah Verrill. (45 minutes)  12 pmChoice, Permutation, Variation TourConsider how artists such as Walter De Maria, Dan Flavin, and Sol LeWitt devised simple, systematic parameters to generate diverse bodies of work with educator Heather Cotter. (1 hour) 12:30 pmSeeing as Moving as Feeling TourExamine the relationships created between the body, environment, and objects through the work of Robert Irwin, Fred Sandback, Richard Serra, and Anne Truitt with educator Lu Shirley Dai. (1 hour)  2 pm DiaTalksAlexandra Truitt and curator James Meyer discuss the work of Anne Truitt. (1 hour) 3 pm Performance: François Chaignaud and Cecilia BengoleaTracing the trajectory of the artists’ twelve-year creative partnership, this performance includes three consecutive episodes, transitioning from the musical structures of polyphonic singing, through the transcendent dance of Sylphides (2009), to the recent ensemble work Dub Love (2014). (2 hours) 5 pm Beer TastingEnjoy beers from Beacon-based microbrewery 2 Way Brewing Company. (45 minutes) Funding Community Free Day at Dia:Beacon is made possible, in part, through the generosity of the Dyson Foundation and 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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Light Party


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13/05/2017 11:00 13/05/2017 00:00 America/New_York Light Party Event DetailsSaturday, May 13, 2017, 11 am Dia:Beacon3 Beekman StreetBeacon, NY 12508Free with museum admission.Family-friendly, drop-in program.No reservations required. This event is part of Community Free Day. Join young artists from Beacon High School to explore how digital media can inform and contribute to a shared experience in the Dia:Beacon galleries. (1.5 hours) Students, teachers, and families are invited to attend a reception with light refreshments immediately following the program in the Serra mezzanine. The Arts Education Program at Dia:BeaconDia:Beacon's partnership with the Beacon City School District provides K–12 students with an intimate setting to respond critically to the art and programs at Dia:Beacon through multi-session workshops both at school and in the galleries.  Dia:Beacon’s annual collaboration with Beacon High School offers students and teachers an opportunity to develop a deep and sustained relationship with the collection and to collaborate with peers, teachers, and museum educators to design and realize a participatory public program for Community Free Day.     Dia Beacon FALSE DD/MM/YYYY Light Party

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Being in the Making


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13/05/2017 11:30 13/05/2017 23:45 America/New_York Being in the Making Event DetailsSaturday, May 13, 2017, 11:30 am Dia:Beacon3 Beekman StreetBeacon, NY 12508 Free with museum admission.Family-friendly, all ages program.Reservations required at the admissions desk. This event is part of Community Free Day. Families and children of all ages discover together how artworks at Dia:Beacon are continuously in the making with artist educator Hannah Verrill. (45 minutes) Hannah Verrill Hannah Verrill is a choreographer based in New York. Verrill works with the body as an experiential instrument contending with dynamics of time and space. She uses movement, video, text, and installation to break open these experiences, resulting in performative events. Her work has been shown at American Medium, New York, HERE Arts Center, New York, Movement Research, New York, Center for Performance Research, New York, WeisAcres, New York, Glasshouse Gallery, New York, Links Hall, Chicago, Nightingale Cinema, Chicago, Defibrillator Gallery, Chicago, and Pieter, Los Angeles. She has been an artist-in-residence at Links Hall in Chicago and the Oxbow School of Art in Saugatuck, Michigan, and is currently in residence at Chez Bushwick in New York as part of the collaborative Kwok Verrill.      Dia Beacon FALSE DD/MM/YYYY Being in the Making

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Choice, Permutation, Variation Tour


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13/05/2017 12:00 13/05/2017 23:45 America/New_York Choice, Permutation, Variation Tour Event DetailsSaturday, May 13, 2017, 12 pm  Dia:Beacon3 Beekman StreetBeacon, NY 12508 Public tour.Free with museum admission.Reservations required at the admissions desk. This event is part of Community Free Day. Consider how artists such as Walter De Maria, Dan Flavin, and Sol LeWitt devised simple parameters to realize diverse bodies of work with educator Heather Cotter. (1 hour)  Heather Cotter Heather Cotter is an art historian and art educator based in the New York area. She has taught educational programs and led tours for adult audiences at museums including the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and Museum of Modern Art in New York. She currently teaches courses in art history and museum studies at Westchester Community College in Valhalla, New York, and Purchase College, State University of New York. Cotter studied art history at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, and Sotheby’s Institute of Art, London, and has received master’s degrees in art history and arts in education respectively from Boston University and Harvard University, Cambridge.     Dia Beacon FALSE DD/MM/YYYY Choice, Permutation, Variation Tour

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Seeing as Moving as Feeling


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13/05/2017 12:30 13/05/2017 23:45 America/New_York Seeing as Moving as Feeling Event DetailsSaturday, May 13, 2017, 12:30 pm  Dia:Beacon3 Beekman StreetBeacon, NY 12508 Public tour.Free with museum admission.Reservations required at the admissions desk. This event is part of Community Free Day. Examine the relationships created between the body, environment, and objects through the work of Robert Irwin, Fred Sandback, Richard Serra, and Anne Truitt with educator Lu Shirley Dai. (1 hour) Lu Shirley Dai Lu Shirley Dai graduated magna cum laude from Barnard College, New York, where she studied art history and dance. Influenced by her interest in both disciplines, as well as an immense curiosity about the connection between these two art forms, Dai is actively researching and exploring the interaction among dance, visual art, and technology through choreography. Dia Beacon FALSE DD/MM/YYYY Seeing as Moving as Feeling

Dia Talks

Alexandra Truitt and James Meyer on Anne Truitt


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Dia Talks

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13/05/2017 14:00 13/05/2017 00:00 America/New_York Alexandra Truitt and James Meyer on Anne Truitt DiaTalks is a new series that brings together leading scholars, curators, and writers to consider the work of a single artist currently on view at Dia, in the form of lectures, discussions, and symposia. Event DetailsSaturday, May 13, 2017, 2 pm Dia:Beacon3 Beekman StreetBeacon, NY 12508 Free with museum admission. No reservations required.  Alexandra Truitt is the daughter of noted American journalist James Truitt and artist Anne Truitt. In 1985 she began working as director of Sander Gallery, a position that she held until 1988 when owner Gerd Sander returned to Germany to found the August Sander Archive. Since then Truitt has worked as an independent photo editor and picture researcher with major clients across the publishing industry. She manages the Estate of Anne Truitt, and currently divides her time between New York City and South Salem, New York.  James Meyer is a curator in the department of modern art at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, where he is working on an Anne Truitt exhibition that will open on November 19, 2017. He also is a curatorial and academic advisor at Dia Art Foundation, New York.     Dia Beacon FALSE DD/MM/YYYY Alexandra Truitt and James Meyer on Anne Truitt

Members’ Event

Reception with François Chaignaud and Cecilia Bengolea


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20/05/2017 17:00 20/05/2017 18:00 America/New_York Reception with François Chaignaud and Cecilia Bengolea Event DetailsSaturday, May 20, 2017, 5–6 pmFor Supporter members and above. Join as a member to attend. Dia:Beacon3 Beekman StreetBeacon, New York Celebrate François Chaignaud and Cecilia Bengolea's new dance commission at Dia:Beacon. Join the choreographers for an outdoor reception after their performance.  RSVP by May 17 at rsvp@diaart.org or 212 293 5602.     Dia Beacon FALSE DD/MM/YYYY Reception with François Chaignaud and Cecilia Bengolea

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