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Swamp Summit: Dirt and Water

Thursday–Friday, March 20–21, 2025
Dia Beacon and Dia Chelsea

Event detailsThursday, March 20, 2025Dia Beacon3 Beekman StreetBeacon, New York Friday, March 21, 2025Dia Chelsea537 West 22nd StreetNew York, New York Free. Spaces are limited; register for Friday, March 21, here. Swamp Summit: Dirt and Water is a two-day convening organized by Dia Art Foundation, Storefront for Art and Architecture, and the Graham Foundation. The gathering aims to examine the relationship between natural and built environments at the boundary where water meets land. Using the unstable grounds of the swamp as a conceptual underpinning, this summit addresses the politics of water in different geographies—from the Gulf of Mexico to the Mekong River. Through their unique approaches to spatial research and art making, participants will discuss pressing issues related to the legacies of art and ecology, as well as the impact of industry and human-induced environmental disasters on historically excluded communities. The convening coincides with the conclusion of Swamplands, Storefront’s yearlong research and program series, and converses with recent and upcoming projects at Dia that examine the same themes. It also honors the history of institutional relationships shaped by intertwined curatorial interests. While the first day of the summit is closed for Swamp Summit participants, the public is invited to join on March 21 for a series of engagements at Dia Chelsea taking place from 5 to 7:45 pm. Schedule Friday, March 21, Dia Chelsea 5 pm | Introduction José Esparza Chong Cuy, Sarah Herda, and Humberto Moro 5:10 pm | Poetry reading Mayan poet and water-rights activist Pedro Uc Be 5:15 pm | Presentation On Indigeneity and Water by Yásnaya Aguilar, followed by a conversation with Pedro Uc Be, moderated by Abraham Cruzvillegas 6:10 pm | ReadingSeason of the Swamp by Yuri Herrera, introduced by Guillermo Ruiz de Teresa 6:20 pm | ConversationJingru (Cyan) Cheng, Sky Hopinka, and Chen Zhan, moderated by Matilde Guidelli-Guidi 7:15 pm | Performative lectureOn Wetlands by Cooking Sections, introduced by Jessica Kwok

Learning Program

Play Sets: Andy Warhol

Saturday, March 22, 2025, 10:30 am
Dia Beacon

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Event detailsSaturday, March 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 March 22, Dia educators will focus on the work of Andy Warhol. 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.

Poetry Reading

Poetry &: In Search of Sugarcane / The Break-Up with LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs and Gabri Christa

Saturday, March 29, 2025, 12–3 pm
Dia Chelsea

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Event detailsSaturday, March 29, 202512–3 pm Dia Chelsea537 West 22nd StreetNew York, New York Free. Spaces are limited; register here. Poet and vocalist LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs debuts a new multimedia project comprising the publication In Search of Sugarcane and the video The Break-Up (both 2025) as part of a “memorial service” at Dia Chelsea. The publication draws from Diggs’s book Village (2023) and magnifies it with a hybrid essay documenting the purchase of a five-story postwar building in Central Harlem as well as its surrounding block and community. Meanwhile, in The Break-Up, made in collaboration with Gabri Christa and modeled on the works of Theo Anthony and Chris Marker, a native Harlemite is determined to fight and remain in a rent-stabilized apartment despite the ghosts and memories that speak through the sounds of active demolition, water leaks, and unwelcome visitors. A performative installation—featuring the video, an altar to Diggs’s Apartment 5RE, and the accompanying publication—takes inspiration from the state of tenant rights in New York and the mysterious phenomena known as “UEO” (unidentified European owner) to call for awareness to the national housing crisis, displacement, and the embodied impact of spatial and communal memory. Using text, performance, and moving-image, Diggs poses the questions: When is home no longer home? What are the dilemmas and legacies that perplex the native Harlemite? Why are UEOs like the Loch Ness Monster? The viewing starts at 12 pm and the service begins at 2 pm. LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs was born and raised in New York. She is an interdisciplinary poet, sound artist, and author of TwERK (2013) and Village (2023), among other titles. Diggs’s work is truly hybrid: Languages and modes are grafted together and furl out insistently from each bound splice. Diggs has received a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship (2015), a Whiting Award (2016), and a C.D. Wright Award for Poetry from the Foundation of Contemporary Art (2020), as well as grants and fellowships from Cave Canem, Creative Capital, Howard Foundation, and the Japan–United States Friendship Commission. Diggs has performed at an array of venues from CalArts, Valencia, and the Museum of Modern Art, New York, to poetry festivals in Denmark and Romania. As an independent curator, artistic director, and producer, she has presented events for BAMCafé, Brooklyn; Lincoln Center Out of Doors, New York; and El Museo del Barrio, New York. She teaches at Brooklyn and Barnard Colleges and lives in New York. Gabri Christa was born and raised in Curaçao. She is a transdisciplinary artist whose work explores social issues through a postcolonial and experimental lens, and her creative practice centers multigenerational work. Her award-winning films have been screened at international festivals, museums, and galleries, and her latest screendance film, KANKANTRI (Silk Cotton Tree, 2024), is touring to various festivals worldwide. Christa was named one of the world’s 100 best filmmakers at Pangea Day (2008), a TED project, and awards for her choreography include a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship (1999). An Atlantic Fellow for Equity in Global Brain Health, she is an associate professor of professional practice at Barnard College, New York, as well as founding director of the college’s Movement Lab, and founder of the Moving Body – Moving Image Festival. Christa lives in New York and is on the city’s Cultural Affairs Advisory Commission.

Learning Program

Play Sets: Larry Bell

Saturday, March 29, 2025, 10:30 am
Dia Beacon

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Event detailsSaturday, March 29, 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 March 29, Dia educators will focus on the work of Larry Bell. 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, March 30, 2025, 10 am–5 pm
Dia Beacon

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Event detailsSunday, March 30, 202510 am–5 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.

Dia Talks

Martine Syms on Walter De Maria

Wednesday, April 2, 2025, 6:30 pm
Dia Chelsea

Artists on Artists Lecture Series

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Event detailsWednesday, April 2, 20256:30 pm Dia Chelsea 537 West 22nd Street New York, New York Free. Spaces are limited; register for the event here. Martine Syms was born in Los Angeles in 1988. Syms’s work across media and genres, often employing humor and narration, explores notions of the self within popular culture. Recent solo presentations include Projects 106: Martine Syms, Museum of Modern Art, New York (2017); She Mad: Season One, Bergen Kunsthall, Norway (2021–22), and Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (2022–23); and Total, Lafayette Anticipations, Paris (2024–25). Recent group exhibitions include those at the Moderna Museet, Stockholm (2022); Kunsthal Charlottenborg Biennale, Copenhagen (2023); and the Art Museum at the University of Toronto (2024–25). As a filmmaker, Syms directed She Mad: Bitch Zone (2020) and The African Desperate (2022). She is the author of several books including Implications and Distinctions: Format, Content, and Context in Contemporary Race Film (2011), Neural Swamp (2022), and She Mad (2024). Syms lives in Los Angeles.

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A Conversation with Steve McQueen and Paul Gilroy

Friday, April 4, 2025, 7 pm
Offsite

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Event detailsFriday, April 4, 20257 pm CUNY Graduate CenterProshansky Auditorium365 5th AvenueNew York, New York Free. Registration required; register for the in-person event here, and the livestream here. Dia Art Foundation and CUNY Graduate Center co-present a conversation with artist Steve McQueen and scholar Paul Gilroy to mark two concurrent exhibitions of McQueen’s work at Dia Beacon and Dia Chelsea. Over many years, McQueen and Gilroy have sustained an ongoing dialogue about the political and cultural dimensions of what Gilroy terms the Black Atlantic, particularly as it relates to visual art and music, as well as other contemporary sociopolitical subjects. Gilroy has also written extensively on and in response to McQueen’s work, including most recently for the catalog Steve McQueen: Bass, published in conjunction with McQueen’s co-commission for Dia Beacon, by Dia and Laurenz Foundation, Schaulager Basel, and documenting the immersive light-and-sound installation. In this conversation, they will focus on their shared interest in music, taking the complex musical idioms associated with Bass (2024) and the Black Atlantic as points of departure. Paul Gilroy is one of the foremost theorists of race and racism working and teaching in the world today. Working across disciplines, including British and American literature, African American studies, Black British studies, transatlantic history, and critical race theory, he has transformed the canon of political and cultural history, making us aware of how the African diaspora—largely spurred into motion by racial slavery—was an extra-national, sociopolitical, and cultural phenomenon that challenged essentialist conceptions of country, community, and identity, and was constitutive of modernity. He is an emeritus professor of humanities and was the founding director of the Sarah Parker Remond Centre for the Study of Racism and Racialisation at University College London. Gilroy is the author of influential publications such as The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness (1993), Against Race: Imagining Political Culture beyond the Color Line (2000), Postcolonial Melancholia (2005), and Darker Than Blue: On the Moral Economies of Black Atlantic Culture (2010), as well as numerous articles and essays. He has written about the work of Steve McQueen in several essays, including “Time and Terror: Widdershins in the Torrid Zone” in Steve McQueen: Sunshine State (2022); “Never Again Grenfell,” published in conjunction with the exhibition Steve McQueen: Grenfell at Serpentine Galleries, London (2023); and “For a Low-End Theory of Black Atlantic Cymatics” in Steve McQueen: Bass (2024). Gilroy is the recipient of the 2019 Holberg Prize, given to a person who has made outstanding contributions to research in the arts, humanities, social science, law, or theology. Gilroy lives in London. Steve McQueen was born in London in 1969. Surveys of his work have been held at the Art Institute of Chicago and Laurenz Foundation, Schaulager Basel (2012–13); Tate Modern, London (2020); and Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan (2022). Recent solo presentations include those at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2016); the Art Institute of Chicago (2017); Museum of Modern Art, New York (2017); Pérez Art Museum, Miami (2017); Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester (2017); Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (2017–18); Tate Britain, London (2019–21); and Serpentine Gallery, London (2023). McQueen has participated in Documenta X (1997) and XI (2002), as well as the Venice Biennale (2003, 2007, 2013, and 2015), representing Great Britain in 2009. He is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Turner Prize (1999); W. E. B. DuBois Medal, Harvard University (2014); and Johannes Vermeer Award (2016). He was declared Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire in 2002, Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire in 2011, and Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order in 2020. McQueen directed the feature films Hunger (2008), Shame (2011), 12 Years a Slave (2014), and Widows (2018); as well as the series Small Axe (2020), an anthology of five films shown on the BBC and Amazon; and Uprising (2021), a three-part documentary series for the BBC. His documentary Occupied City (2023) is based on the book Atlas van een bezette stad: Amsterdam 1940–1945 (Atlas of an Occupied City: Amsterdam 1940–1945, 2019) by Bianca Stigter. McQueen won the Caméra d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival for Hunger in 2008 and an Oscar for Best Motion Picture for 12 Years a Slave in 2014. McQueen lives in Amsterdam and London.

Learning Program

Play Sets: Lucas Samaras

Saturday, April 5, 2025, 10:30 am
Dia Beacon

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Event detailsSaturday, April 5, 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 April 5, Dia educators will focus on the work of Lucas Samaras. 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.

Members’ Event

Viewing and Reception in Celebration of Walter De Maria

Wednesday, April 9, 2025, 6–7:30 pm
Walter De Maria, The New York Earth Room

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Event detailsWednesday, April 9, 20256–7:30 pmNew York, New York The New York Earth Room, 1977141 Wooster Street The Broken Kilometer, 1979393 West Broadway For all members. Join or renew today. Members are invited to celebrate Walter De Maria’s permanent installations in New York. Become a member or renew your membership today and receive an exclusive invitation to experience The New York Earth Room and The Broken Kilometer after hours. We encourage members to join us at both sites and enjoy refreshments at The New York Earth Room. Spaces are limited; RSVP at rsvp@diaart.org or 212 293 5520.

Learning Program

Saturday Studio at Dia Beacon

Saturday, April 12, 2025, 10:30 am
Dia Beacon

Saturday Studio

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Event detailsSaturday, April 12, 202510:30 am–12 pm Dia Beacon Learning Lab3 Beekman StreetBeacon, New York Free. Spaces are limited; registration opens Friday, April 4, 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

Saturday, April 12, 2025, 2 pm
Dia Chelsea

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Dia Talks

Madame Architect Presents: Dia’s Jessica Morgan with Architecture Research Office’s Kim Yao and Adam Yarinsky

Wednesday, April 16, 2025, 6:30 pm
Dia Chelsea

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Event detailsWednesday, April 16, 20256:30 pm Dia Chelsea537 West 22nd StreetNew York, New York Free. Spaces are limited; register here. Join Madame Architect’s Kate Reggev for a conversation with Dia director Jessica Morgan and Architecture Research Office’s Kim Yao and Adam Yarinsky about the design of Dia Chelsea. The conversation is introduced by Madame Architect editor-in-chief Julia Gamolina. Julia Gamolina is the founder and editor-in-chief of Madame Architect, a digital magazine focused on the extraordinary women that shape our world. Trained as an architect and with over a decade of experience across all aspects of design, business development, and communications, she is also an associate principal at Ennead Architects, New York, and teaches graduate professional practice and media courses at Pratt Institute, Brooklyn. Her writing has been featured in A Women’s Thing, Fast Company, Metropolis Magazine, and the Architect’s Newspaper, and she serves on the advisory board for Untapped New York’s Journalism Fellowship. In 2023 and 2024, Gamolina was included in Wallpaper*’s USA 300, a list of the people defining the creative landscape of the United States. In 2024, Madame Architect received the Architecture in Media Award from the American Institute of Architects New York. She earned her bachelor of architecture at Cornell University, Ithaca, graduating with the Charles Goodwin Sands Memorial Medal for exceptional thesis. Jessica Morgan is Dia’s Nathalie de Gunzburg Director. Kate Reggev is an architect, project manager, historian, design writer, and educator with over a decade of experience in the design, construction, and preservation worlds. She is currently the project manager leading the design and construction of the Cohen Career Collective, a 160,000–square foot workforce training and educational center at LaGuardia Community College, Long Island City. Previously, she was a project manager at Zubatkin Owner Representation and an associate at the architecture firm of Beyer Blinder Belle, both in New York. Reggev also writes about architecture and design for publications like Architectural Digest and Dwell; teaches in the Historic Preservation Program at Columbia University, New York; consults on preservation projects; and authors an historical column at Madame Architect. She’s been quoted in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and Architectural Digest, and lectures across the country about architecture, preservation, and design. Reggev holds a master of architecture and a master of science in historic preservation from Columbia University, as well as a bachelor of arts in architecture, cum laude, from Barnard College at Columbia University. Kim Yao, Fellow of the American Institute of Architects, is a principal at Architecture Research Office (ARO), a New York firm united in its collaborative process, commitment to accountable action, and social and environmental responsibility. ARO’s diverse body of work has earned the firm over 100 design awards including the 2020 Architecture Firm Award from the American Institute of Architects. Yao is a lecturer at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, and has taught at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation at Columbia University; Parson’s School of Constructed Environments at the New School; and Barnard College, all in New York. She has lectured throughout the United States and abroad. Yao has been awarded the American Institute of Architects New York (AIANY) Medal of Honor and the Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation Mentorship Award. She was president of AIANY in 2020 and serves on the board of the Center for Architecture, also in New York. She holds a bachelor of architecture from Columbia University, and a master of architecture from Princeton University, New Jersey. Adam Yarinsky, Fellow of the American Institute of Architects, is a principal of Architecture Research Office (ARO). He is a lecturer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, and has taught at Harvard University, Cambridge; University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; Princeton University, New Jersey; Yale University, New Haven; the University of Virginia, Charlottesville; and other institutions. He has also lectured widely and written about ARO’s work. Yarinsky served on the board of Places Journal from 2012 to 2018, and he is on the Dean’s Advisory Board of the University of Virginia’s School of Architecture. He was a Fall/Winter 2023 resident at the American Academy in Rome. Yarinsky holds a bachelor of architecture from the University of Virginia and a master of architecture from Princeton University.

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