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March 25 to April 24, 2017

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Family Art-Making Activities


Dia Beacon

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15/04/2017 10:00 15/04/2017 11:00 America/New_York Family Art-Making Activities Event DetailsSaturday, April 15, 10–11 amFor dual/family members and above. Join as a member to attend.   Dia:Beacon3 Beekman StreetBeacon, New York Start your weekend with a morning of family-friendly, art-making activities in the galleries before public hours. Join an artist educator to create an original pop-up book while exploring the work of Donald Judd, On Kawara, and Sol LeWitt. All ages welcome. RSVP to Irene Koo by April 12 at ikoo@diaart.org or 212 293 5602.     Dia Beacon FALSE DD/MM/YYYY Family Art-Making Activities

Dia Talks

Renée Green on Chantal Akerman and On Kawara


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Artists on Artists Lecture Series

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28/03/2017 18:30 28/03/2017 23:45 America/New_York Renée Green on Chantal Akerman and On Kawara Event DetailsTuesday, March 28, 2017, 6:30 pmDia:Chelsea535 West 22nd Street, 5th FloorNew York City Advance tickets are no longer available. Walk up tickets will be sold based on availability. Renée Green was born in Cleveland in 1959. She has had several recent solo exhibitions including Endless Dreams and Time-Based Streams at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco (2010), and the two-year engagement Pacing at the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts (2016–18). In 2016, she was selected to organize the Artists Research Laboratory at the Fondazione Antonio Ratti in Como, Italy. Her most recent books include Other Planes of There: Selected Writings (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2014), Renée Green: Endless Dreams and Time-Based Streams (San Francisco: Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 2011), and Ongoing Becomings: Retrospective 1989–2009 (Lausanne: Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts; Zürich: JRP|Ringier, 2009). Green is a professor at the program in art, culture, and technology at MIT’s School of Architecture and Planning. She lives and works in Somerville, Massachusetts, and New York City.     Dia Chelsea FALSE DD/MM/YYYY Renée Green on Chantal Akerman and On Kawara

Poetry Reading

Sylvia Gorelick and Cole Swensen


Dia Chelsea

Readings in Contemporary Poetry

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04/04/2017 18:30 04/04/2017 23:45 America/New_York Sylvia Gorelick and Cole Swensen Event DetailsTuesday, April 4, 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. Sylvia Mae GorelickSylvia Mae Gorelick is a poet, writer, and translator based in New York City. Her chapbooks include Olympians, we are breathless (Poetry will be made by all!, 2014) and Seven Poems for Bill Berkson (Kostro Editions, 2009). Her work recently appeared in the anthologies In|Filtration: An Anthology of Innovative Writing from the Hudson River Valley (Station Hill, 2016) and For Bill, Anything: Images and Text for Bill Berkson (Pressed Wafer, 2015). The University of Chicago Press published her translation of Nietzsche’s Journey to Sorrento by Paolo D’Iorio in 2016, and her translation of Stéphane Mallarmé’s Le Livre is forthcoming from Exact Change Press. POEMEmerging somehow into power you see the fog fall in and out of nightand women on the street days go by in a vertigo           of willsand wanting some          word to reach          to reinvent what          seeing means once you wake towar in your           country and           the games are           all over you want to          shatter but          shattering          can’t be                     had                      life lines moving                     through us          we are only a few                     hours into                                         dark andalready time disappears through our           hands — the truthdoes not exist — it’s everybody’s angel all the things that keep us from thinking there’s a difference between the abstract body we love           and the body suddenly precarious                                 sheltered by danger           there is nothing outside                                           representation                                but the trembling core and us inside it Cole SwensenCole Swensen is the author of sixteen books of poetry, including the upcoming On Walking On (Nightboat Books, 2017). Swensen is the recipient of the Iowa Poetry Prize, the San Francisco State Poetry Center Book Award, and a National Poetry Series selection, among others. She has also been a finalist for the National Book Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Award. Also a translator, she has won the PEN USA Award in Literary Translation and has translated over fifteen volumes of contemporary French poetry into English. Swensen is also the coeditor of American Hybrid: A Norton Anthology of New Poetry (W. W. Norton & Company, 2009). She divides her time between Paris and Providence, where she teaches at Brown University.  Debordà la derive      de la Bièvre      de Guy Debord who could sweep through any cityon a curve    could river aloft          even an old river knotted        in the middleof the night      can be traced by its heat               Debord who refused to followthe meticulous scent    only a city could in such debt        could a city disarticulate
its flickering grid       in walking is      the destruction of city planning           the de- Haussmannization of the mind on an October afternoon       filtered light         fingering                   a break in the seal      cast aside       decades later     a group of young peoplegot into the habit of walking a straight line across Paris    no matter what buildingsrivers or other obstacles happened        to get in their way        they unlocked
the genetic sequence     and not without effect    on the English Inclosure Acts ofthe 18th and 19th centuries    though this is difficult to document    which is oneof its principal strengths.     Dia Chelsea FALSE DD/MM/YYYY Sylvia Gorelick and Cole Swensen

Dia Talks

Alexandra Munroe on Kishio Suga


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Dia Talks

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08/04/2017 14:30 08/04/2017 15:30 America/New_York Alexandra Munroe on Kishio Suga Event DetailsSaturday, April 8, 2017, 2:30 pm  Dia:Chelsea535 West 22nd Street, 5th FloorNew York City  Free; no reservations required. Alexandra Munroe is an award-winning author, curator, and scholar, focusing on art, culture, and institutional global strategy. Munroe is the Samsung Senior Curator of Asian Art and Senior Advisor of Global Arts at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City, where she has led the Guggenheim’s Asian Art Initiative since it was founded in 2006. Under her leadership, the museum has presented groundbreaking exhibitions and scholarly publications on Asian art in a global context and has expanded its mission to study, acquire, and exhibit art from beyond the Western world. Her project Japanese Art after 1945: Scream Against the Sky (1994) is recognized for initiating the field of postwar Japanese art history in the United States. She is currently organizing the exhibition Art and China after 1989: Theater of the World, which opens at the Guggenheim in October 2017.     Dia Chelsea FALSE DD/MM/YYYY Alexandra Munroe on Kishio Suga

Book Launch

Readings in Contemporary Poetry: An Anthology Book Launch


Dia Chelsea

Book Launches

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13/04/2017 18:30 13/04/2017 23:45 America/New_York Readings in Contemporary Poetry: An Anthology Book Launch Event DetailsDia:Chelsea535 West 22nd Street, 5th FloorNew York City Editor Vincent Katz will introduce the book, followed by readings by Elaine Equi and Eileen Myles.  Signed books will be available for purchase. Admission is free. Reservations encouraged. Major support for Readings in Contemporary Poetry: An Anthology has been provided by Lévy Gorvy. A publication of the Sackler Institute at Dia Art Foundation.     Dia Chelsea FALSE DD/MM/YYYY Readings in Contemporary Poetry: An Anthology Book Launch

Poetry Reading

Christine Kanownik and Ron Horning


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Readings in Contemporary Poetry

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18/04/2017 18:30 18/04/2017 23:45 America/New_York Christine Kanownik and Ron Horning Event DetailsTuesday, April 18, 2017, 6:30 pmThis reading, which was originally planned for March 14, has been rescheduled for April 18.Dia: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.  Christine KanownikChristine Kanownik is the author of a book of poems titled KING OF PAIN (Monk Books, 2016). Her poetry can or will be found at Fence, Huffington Post, Jubilat, and Poetry Crush, among others. Diez Press published her chapbook We Are Now Beginning to Act Wildly in 2012. She lives and works in New York City.  Ugly RoomMeet me in the ugly room No, the ugly onethat one is fine I mean the one I can't stand to be in Bring an axe This is not a metaphorThis is what I actually want from you If I'm ever going to love againI need you to bring an axe to the ugly roomI need to speak with you directlyabout failure & disappointment since we've both learned to identify things their origins at least Objects can give pleasure holding them at least When you were goneI held everything belonging to you I felt a twinge                                               Ron HorningBorn in Ohio, Ron Horning grew up in Peru and Brazil and, after moving to New York City, worked as a bookshop clerk, a short-order cook, an advertising copywriter, a freelance journalist, and a financial editor and analyst. He lives with his wife, the artist Anna West, in Beacon, New York. His poems have appeared in the New Yorker, Vanitas, and the Hat, and he’s written prose for Aperture, Village Voice, LA Weekly, index, and Brooklyn Rail. From 2001 to 2005 he edited the poetry newsletter I Saw Johnny Yesterday. In 2014, Color Treasury published a trio of poems titled From Philip Drunk to Philip Sober; in 2016, Untitled brought out a collection of three more poems, Blind Date.  InteriorEva lives in one room overlooking a narrow cul de sacnear Union Square, Market Street, the financial district—beyond the other end of Chinatown. And I find the place,so the instructions she gave me at the MDR were good. Upstairs, we drink our tea sitting on the floor, the lackof any furniture except a thin pallet proof of her strictattention to detail, like the pale rose climbing her facewith a soft glow that’s kissable. But she knew I would. After we dress, though, there isn’t quite so much to say,and the hardwood floor lights up as the room darkens.All at once I remember a friend I’m supposed to meet. We’d planned to have dinner. We’ll do that another day.The shine from the floor deepens as the room darkens.We hug goodbye in the alley. I walk out onto the street.     Dia Chelsea FALSE DD/MM/YYYY Christine Kanownik and Ron Horning

Dia Talks

Christophe Cherix on Hanne Darboven


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Dia Talks

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22/04/2017 14:30 22/04/2017 15:30 America/New_York Christophe Cherix on Hanne Darboven Event DetailsSaturday, April 22, 2017, 2:30 pm  Dia:Chelsea545 West 22nd StreetNew York City  This event has recached capacity. Please e-mail info@diaart.org to be added to the waitlist.Christophe Cherix was appointed the Robert Lehman Foundation Chief Curator of Drawings and Prints at the Museum of Modern Art in 2013. He joined the museum’s curatorial staff in July 2007, after serving as curator of the Cabinet des estampes at the Musées d’art et d’histoire in Geneva. At MoMA, Cherix organized Marcel Broodthaers: A Retrospective with Manuel Borja-Villel in 2016, Yoko Ono: One Woman Show, 1960–1971 with Klaus Biesenbach in 2015, Jasper Johns: Regrets with Ann Temkin in 2014, Print/Out with Kim Conaty in 2012, and Contemporary Art from the Collection with Kathy Halbreich in 2010–11. Cherix has contributed to the catalogue raisonnés of prints by Henri Michaux (1997) and Robert Morris (1999), and is the editor of In & Out of Amsterdam: Travels in Conceptual Art, 1960–1976 (New York: Museum of Modern Art, 2009). Dia Chelsea FALSE DD/MM/YYYY Christophe Cherix on Hanne Darboven

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