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Evergreen Minds Workshop

Saturday, January 25, 2025, 10:30 am–12 pm
Dia Beacon

Event detailsSaturday, January 25, 202510:30 am–12 pm Dia Beacon3 Beekman StreetBeacon, New York Free. Spaces are limited; register here. In this program, designed for adults living with dementia and their care partners, participants engage with one artist or gallery at Dia Beacon with guidance from Dia educators and Dr. Michelle Olson, art therapist and executive director of Evergreen Minds. Following an in-gallery discussion, participants create their own works of art based on their experience. Please note: this program requires walking through gallery spaces. Seating will be provided throughout the program and wheelchairs are available upon request. For more information, email learning@diaart.org. Evergreen Minds is an organization based in the gorgeous Mahicantuck (Hudson River) Valley region of New York. Evergreen Minds offers people living with dementia opportunities for meaningful connections and pathways to physical, social, and emotional well-being through mindful immersions in nature and expressive arts. Evergreen Minds runs on the generous support of its community. If you are able, please consider making a donation.

Learning Program

Play Sets: Richard Serra

Saturday, January 25, 2025, 10:30 am
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Play Sets

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Event details Saturday, January 25, 202510:30–11:15 am Dia Beacon3 Beekman StreetBeacon, New York Free. Spaces are limited and offered on a first-come, first-served basis. Explore the galleries through in-depth engagements with a single artist or artwork. Each program includes hands-on exercises that invite participants to see, think, and imagine in new ways. On January 25, Dia educators will focus on the work of Richard Serra. Recommended for families with children ages five and up. All families participating in the Play Sets program receive free admission to Dia Beacon for the day. For more information, please contact learning@diaart.org.

Dia Talks

Steve McQueen Symposium: Bass

Saturday, January 25, 2025, 12–3:30 pm
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Event detailsSaturday, January 25, 202512–3:30 pm Dia Beacon3 Beekman StreetBeacon, New York Free with museum admission. Convened in conjunction with the presentation of Steve McQueen’s Bass (2024) at Dia Beacon, this symposium brings together artists and scholars to reflect on the work’s aesthetic and political resonances. Invited speakers Solveig Nelson, Michael E. Veal, and Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa will address the immersive installation through ideas of image-making and abstraction, music and reverberation, and representations of Black life and culture, while situating it in the context of McQueen’s past works. Afterward, writer Zoë Hopkins will moderate a group discussion between the speakers. Visitors are encouraged to arrive to the museum early to experience Bass before the program begins. For more than 30 years, McQueen has investigated the possibilities inherent in film—as a material, documentary tool, and storytelling medium—resulting in work that is formally inventive and politically pointed. With no representational or moving-image component, Bass is an environment comprising the most basic, structural elements of film: light and sound. Schedule12–1:15 pm Session I: Introduction by Donna De Salvo, senior adjunct curator, special projects, followed by individual presentations2–3:30 pm Session II: Moderated group discussion and audience Q&A Solveig Nelson is a curator, scholar, and art critic whose work focuses on the intersections between video, photography, and social movements. She received a PhD from the Art Institute of Chicago and was the American Council of Learned Societies Emerging Voices Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Art History at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire. She currently is the curator of photography and new media at the Benton Museum in Pomona, California. Michael E. Veal is a bassist, writer, and scholar of the cultural sphere of the Black Atlantic, with a focus on African and African American music. A “musical pan-Africanist,” he has taught at Yale University, New Haven, since 1998; he is currently the Henry L. and Lucy G. Moses Professor in the Department of Music as well as a Professor of African American and American Studies. Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa is a British-Ugandan artist, writer, and editor. Recent publications include the photographicmonograph Hiding in Plain Sight, co-authored with fellow artist Ben Alper (2020), and Dark Mirrors (2021). Hissolo exhibition, Scene at Eastman, at the George Eastman Museum in Rochester, New York, closes on April 20, 2025. Zoë Hopkins is a writer and critic focused on Conceptual art of the Black diaspora. Her writing has been featured in Artforum, Cultured, Hyperallergic, and The Brooklyn Rail. She is currently pursuing an MA in modern and contemporary art at Columbia University, New York.

Special Event

Hudson Valley Free Day

Sunday, January 26, 2025, 10 am–4 pm
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Event detailsSunday, January 26, 202510 am–4 pm Dia Beacon3 BeekmanBeacon, New York Hudson Valley residents receive free admission to Dia Beacon on the last Sunday of each month. The Hudson Valley encompasses the following counties: Albany, Columbia, Dutchess, Greene, Orange, Putnam, Rensselaer, Rockland, Saratoga, Schenectady, Sullivan, Ulster, Washington, and Westchester. To get tickets for Hudson Valley Free Day please fill out our Free Admission Request. Hudson Valley Free Days at Dia Beacon are made possible by Charlie Pohlad.

Learning Program

Play Sets: Roni Horn

Sunday, January 26, 2025, 10:30 am
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Event details Sunday, January 26, 202510:30–11:15 am Dia Beacon3 Beekman StreetBeacon, New York Free. Spaces are limited and offered on a first-come, first-served basis. Explore the galleries through in-depth engagements with a single artist or artwork. Each program includes hands-on exercises that invite participants to see, think, and imagine in new ways. On January 26, Dia educators will focus on the work of Roni Horn. Recommended for families with children ages five and up. All families participating in the Play Sets program receive free admission to Dia Beacon for the day. For more information, please contact learning@diaart.org.

Learning Program

Play Sets: Senga Nengudi

Saturday, February 1, 2025, 10:30 am
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Event details Saturday, February 1, 202510:30–11:15 am Dia Beacon3 Beekman StreetBeacon, New York Free. Spaces are limited and offered on a first-come, first-served basis. Explore the galleries through in-depth engagements with a single artist or artwork. Each program includes hands-on exercises that invite participants to see, think, and imagine in new ways. On February 1, Dia educators will focus on the work of Senga Nengundi. Recommended for families with children ages five and up. All families participating in the Play Sets program receive free admission to Dia Beacon for the day. For more information, please contact learning@diaart.org.

Learning Program

Saturday Studio at Dia Beacon

Saturday, February 8, 2025, 10:30 am
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Saturday Studio

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Event detailsSaturday, February 8, 202510:30 am–12 pm Dia Beacon Learning Lab3 Beekman StreetBeacon, New York Free. Spaces are limited; registration opens Friday, January 31, at 9 am. Join a practicing artist for a workshop of art-making, material experimentation, and play at Dia Beacon. Designed for all ages, Saturday Studio is a family-friendly program that is most suitable for children ages five and up. Saturday Studio begins promptly at 10:30 am at Dia Beacon. For more information, please contact learning@diaart.org.

Tour

Public Tour of
Steve McQueen and
Echoes from the Borderlands: Study Two

Saturday, February 8, 2025, 2 pm
Dia Chelsea

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Play Sets: Gerhard Richter

Saturday, February 15, 2025, 10:30 am
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Event details Saturday, February 15, 202510:30–11:15 am Dia Beacon3 Beekman StreetBeacon, New York Free. Spaces are limited and offered on a first-come, first-served basis. Explore the galleries through in-depth engagements with a single artist or artwork. Each program includes hands-on exercises that invite participants to see, think, and imagine in new ways. On February 15, Dia educators will focus on the work of Gerhard Richter. Recommended for families with children ages five and up. All families participating in the Play Sets program receive free admission to Dia Beacon for the day. For more information, please contact learning@diaart.org.

Learning Program

Play Sets: Mary Heilmann

Saturday, February 22, 2025, 10:30 am
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Event details Saturday, February 22, 202510:30–11:15 am Dia Beacon3 Beekman StreetBeacon, New York Free. Spaces are limited and offered on a first-come, first-served basis. Explore the galleries through in-depth engagements with a single artist or artwork. Each program includes hands-on exercises that invite participants to see, think, and imagine in new ways. On February 22, Dia educators will focus on the work of Mary Heilmann. Recommended for families with children ages five and up. All families participating in the Play Sets program receive free admission to Dia Beacon for the day. For more information, please contact learning@diaart.org.

Special Event

Hudson Valley Free Day

Sunday, February 23, 2025, 10 am–4 pm
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Event detailsSunday, February 23, 202510 am–4 pm Dia Beacon3 BeekmanBeacon, New York Hudson Valley residents receive free admission to Dia Beacon on the last Sunday of each month. The Hudson Valley encompasses the following counties: Albany, Columbia, Dutchess, Greene, Orange, Putnam, Rensselaer, Rockland, Saratoga, Schenectady, Sullivan, Ulster, Washington, and Westchester. To get tickets for Hudson Valley Free Day please fill out our Free Admission Request. Hudson Valley Free Days at Dia Beacon are made possible by Charlie Pohlad.

Learning Program

Play Sets: Cameron Rowland

Sunday, February 23, 2025, 10:30 am
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Event details Sunday, February 23, 202510:30–11:15 am Dia Beacon3 Beekman StreetBeacon, New York Free. Spaces are limited and offered on a first-come, first-served basis. Explore the galleries through in-depth engagements with a single artist or artwork. Each program includes hands-on exercises that invite participants to see, think, and imagine in new ways. On February 23, Dia educators will focus on the work of Cameron Rowland. Recommended for families with children ages five and up. All families participating in the Play Sets program receive free admission to Dia Beacon for the day. For more information, please contact learning@diaart.org.

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