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Dia Talks

Nayland Blake on Joseph Beuys

Tuesday, May 7, 2019, 6:30 pm
Dia Chelsea

Event DetailsTuesday, May 7, 2019, 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. Nayland Blake was born in New York City in 1960. They attended Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, and then California Institute of the Arts in Santa Clarita. After receiving their MFA, they moved to San Francisco in 1984. Blake has had one-person exhibitions at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, New York, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and University of California Berkeley Art Museum. Their works are in the permanent collections of the Brooklyn Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, Museum of Modern Art in New York, Studio Museum in Harlem, Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, and many other institutions. In 1995 they coorganized the landmark exhibition In a Different Light at the University of California Berkeley Art Museum with Lawrence Rinder, and in 2018 they organized Tag: Proposals on Queer Play and the Ways Forward at the Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. Blake is currently the founding chair of the ICP-Bard MFA program at the International Center of Photography in New York. Blake lives and works in New York.

Poetry Reading

Alan Bernheimer and Jean Day

Tuesday, May 14, 2019, 6:30 pm
Dia Chelsea

Readings in Contemporary Poetry

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Event DetailsTuesday, May 14, 2019, 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 are recommended. Tickets are also available for purchase at the door, subject to availability. Alan Bernheimer’s new collection of poetry, From Nature, is forthcoming from Cuneiform Press in 2019. Recent work has appeared at Across the Margin and in Delineator, Equalizer, and Hambone. Born and raised in New York City, he has lived in the Bay Area since the 1970s. He produces a portrait gallery of poets reading on flickr. His translation of Philippe Soupault’s memoir, Lost Profiles: Memoirs of Cubism, Dada, and Surrealism was published by City Lights in 2016. BREAKFAST Forgetting words The moment you Hear or read them Is one way to avoid Plagiarizing but just Keep their flavor And then try Expressing thatIn your own words As if you could Own words You can't even Keep thoughtsFrom slipping awayThey’re the slipperiest Of all the slippery Things in lifeThe hotel elevator That rises way Past the roof And slips across A higher landscapeA different neighborhood Why not ask If any of these Places will be Open for breakfast Jean Day is an editor, a poet, and a union activist, whose Triumph of Life was just published in 2018 by Insurance Editions. Recent poems can also be seen in Across the Margin, Breather, Chicago Review, Delineator, Jongler (French), and Open House, as well as in her Daydream, published last year by Litmus Press. Earlier works include Early Bird (O’Clock, 2014) and Enthusiasm (Adventures in Poetry, 2006), among other books. Her work has also appeared in many anthologies, including the recent Resist Much/Obey Little (Spuyten Duyvil, 2017) and Out of Everywhere 2: Linguistically Innovative Poetry by Women in North America & the UK (Reality Street, 2015). She lives in Berkeley, where she works as managing editor of Representations, an interdisciplinary humanities journal published by University of California Press. FROM A DISTANT STAR Sectarian quiet is a myth. I knew it would be like this: Milky sky of latewild turkeys in traffican earlier and earlier dinner. It pays to be smart in any universe. But we are down to the final call for volunteers –from The Triumph of Life

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