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Richard Serra: A Film and Video Exhibition

Co-organized with Electronic Arts Intermix
Wednesday–Saturday, August 21–September 14, 2024, 12–6 pm
Dia Chelsea

Event detailsWednesday–Saturday, August 21–September 14, 202412–6 pm Dia Chelsea537 West 22nd Street New York, New York Free; no registration required. In collaboration with Electronic Arts Intermix, Dia presents a survey exhibition of Richard Serra’s films and videos. Between 1968 and 1979, the late artist realized a body of 17 moving-image works, a selection of which will be on view in Dia Chelsea’s talk space from August 21 through September 14, 2024. To culminate the presentation, a lecture by Chrissie Iles will be held on Saturday, September 14. All of Serra’s films and videos are in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; courtesy Electronic Arts Intermix, New York. Richard Serra: A Film and Video Exhibition is organized by Matilde Guidelli-Guidi, curator and co-department head. View exhibition brochure Richard Serra was born in San Francisco in 1938. After graduating in 1961 with a degree in English from the University of California, Santa Barbara, he studied art at Yale University, New Haven, until 1964. Serra spent two years traveling Europe before settling in 1966 in New York, where he began to show his work in 1967. Alongside his sculptural practice, Serra realized a body of film and video works between 1968 and 1979. Retrospectives of Serra’s sculptures have been organized by the Museum of Modern Art, New York (1986 and 2007), and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (1998), and a comprehensive survey of his moving-image works was presented at Kunstmuseum Basel (2017). In 1997, Serra’s first Torqued Ellipses sculptures were presented at Dia Center for the Arts, New York, and have been on permanent view at Dia Beacon since 2003 along with select works spanning his career. Serra died in Orient, New York, in 2024.

Book Launch

Dorothea Rockburne Book Launch

Wednesday, September 11, 2024, 6:30 pm
Dia Chelsea

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Event details Wednesday, September 11, 20246:30 pm Dia Chelsea537 West 22nd StreetNew York, New York Free. Spaces are limited; register here. Join us for a conversation between Dorothea Rockburne and Dia editor Svetlana Kitto to launch the first in-depth monograph of the artist’s seven-decade career. Published in July 2024, the book considers the full scope and varied range of Rockburne’s elegant yet deceptively simple sculptures, installations, and paintings. Essays explore her time at Black Mountain College and training as an artist; her background in dance including a brief period with the Judson Dance Theater; the physicality of her art as manifested through painstaking work with humble materials like chipboard, cup grease, paper, and linen; her long-standing engagement with mathematics; and her foregrounding of subjectivity and emotion, which puts her in particular dialogue with feminism, Minimalism, and wider contemporary abstraction. Balancing both new scholarship and never-before-published writings, studies, and drawings by the artist, this will be the definitive book on Rockburne’s expansive oeuvre for years to come. The event features a Q&A with the artist and editor, to be followed by a book signing. Dorothea Rockburne was born in 1932 in Montreal, where she studied art and philosophy before attending Black Mountain College near Asheville, North Carolina, from 1950 to 1954. While at Black Mountain, Rockburne met the mathematician Max Dehn, whose tutelage in concepts including harmonic intervals, topology, and set theory were deeply influential to her practice. After moving to New York in 1954, she became involved with the nascent Judson Dance Theater and later participated in Carolee Schneemann’s Meat Joy (1964), among other notable performances. In the late 1960s Rockburne began exhibiting paintings made with industrial materials. Her works based on set theory, what the artist refers to as “visual equations,” were first exhibited in New York in 1970. Later phases of Rockburne’s painting practice draw on ancient systems of proportion as well as astronomical phenomena. Her work has been featured in two solo exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art in New York (1981 and 2013–14); a major retrospective at the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill, New York (2011), which traveled to the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts; and a long-term solo exhibition at Dia Beacon (2018–22). Rockburne resides in New York.

Learning Program

Saturday Studio at Dia Beacon

Saturday, September 14, 2024, 10:30 am
Dia Beacon

Saturday Studio

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Event detailsSaturday, September 14, 202410:30 am–12 pm Dia Beacon Learning Lab3 Beekman StreetBeacon, New York Free. Spaces are limited; registration opens Friday, September 6, 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.

Learning Program

Activations: Memory Textures with Camila Palomino and Alix Vernet

Saturday, September 14, 2024, 11 am–3 pm
Offsite

Activations

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Event detailsSaturday, September 14, 202411 am–3 pm Chelsea Recreation Center430 West 25th StreetNew York, New York Free. Spaces are limited; registration opens Friday, September 6. How do we create and maintain relationships with our built environment? Organized by Camila Palomino and Alix Vernet, Memory Textures invites participants to an afternoon of studying urban surfaces in Chelsea and building tools to record public space. Participants will examine inscriptions—from patterns to lettering across surfaces and sidewalks—and learn how to archive these impressions with techniques usually reserved for studying antiquity, collapsing temporalities and creating a personal collection of urban texture and memory. Camila Palomino is a curator, researcher, and writer from Queens. Her research is invested in aesthetic and political relationships between urban infrastructures and memory. Palomino has organized exhibitions and programs at Abrons Arts Center, New York; Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York; SculptureCenter, Queens; and the Vera List Center for Art and Politics at the New School, New York. In 2023, Palomino was the co-editor of Viscose Journal’s fifth issue, “Retail,” which focused on the role of fashion retail within urban spatial politics. Alix Vernet examines and extends the social histories of built environments through the creation of direct clay reliefs and guerilla molds of urban surfaces, a process she calls street castings. Her work looks at the rituals, disappearances, and apparitions contained in the material life of buildings. Frequently her projects involve long-term collaborations with both official and unofficial custodians of public life, including maintenance workers, museum conservators, pedestrians, and neighbors. Vernet’s work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at Helena Anrather, New York, and group exhibitions at the Gund Gallery at Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio; Jeffrey Deitch, Los Angeles; and Soft Opening, London. About the program seriesActivations is a series of interdisciplinary public programs designed by artists in response to civic spaces in New York. Each activation invites participants to encounter a ready-made site through the lens of an artistic practice, reimagining them as spaces of creative possibility. All are welcome to participate.

Dia Talks

Chrissie Iles on Richard Serra’s Films and Videos

Co-organized with Electronic Arts Intermix
Saturday, September 14, 2024, 4 pm
Dia Chelsea

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Event details Saturday, September 14, 20244 pm Dia Chelsea537 West 22nd StreetNew York, New York Free. Spaces are limited; register here. Culminating Richard Serra: A Film and Video Exhibition at Dia Chelsea, Chrissie Iles presents a lecture on the artist’s moving-image works, following an introduction by Matilde Guidelli-Guidi, Dia’s curator and co–department head. Chrissie Iles is the Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Her curated exhibitions include surveys of Louise Bourgeois, Dan Graham, and Sharon Hayes’s work, as well as four major thematic exhibitions of moving-image art, including Into the Light: The Projected Image in American Art, 1964–1977 (2001) and Dreamlands: Immersive Cinema and Art, 1905–2016 (2016). She has co-curated the 2004, 2006, and 2024 Whitney Biennials. Iles builds the Whitney’s permanent collection of time-based media and has authored numerous exhibition publications. She lives in New York. All of Serra’s films and videos are in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; courtesy Electronic Arts Intermix, New York.

Members’ Event

Member Preview of Steve McQueen

Thursday, September 19, 2024, 6–8 pm
Dia Chelsea

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Event detailsThursday, September 19, 20246–8 pm For all members. Join or renew today. Dia Chelsea537 West 22nd StreetNew York, New York Members are invited to experience Dia’s newest exhibition by artist and filmmaker Steve McQueen before it opens to the public. Become a member or renew your membership today and receive an invitation to the exclusive preview and opening reception of Steve McQueen at Dia Chelsea. We encourage members to join us, explore the space, and browse our bookshop which will be open until 8 pm. Steve McQueen at Dia Chelsea is complemented by a concurrent exhibition at Dia Beacon, co-commissioned with Laurenz Foundation, Schaulager Basel, on view through April 14, 2025. Taken together, the exhibitions reveal the breadth of McQueen’s practice and the through lines that run between his pictorial and more abstract works. Spaces are limited; RSVP at 212 293 5520 or rsvp@diaart.org.

Dia Talks

A Conversation with Steve McQueen and Donna De Salvo

Friday, September 20, 2024, 6 pm
Dia Chelsea

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Event details Friday, September 20, 2024 6 pm Dia Chelsea 537 West 22nd StreetNew York, New York Free. Spaces are limited; register here. On the opening evening of Steve McQueen at Dia Chelsea and in conjunction with the release of Steve McQueen: Bass—a new publication dedicated to the artist’s commission for Dia Beacon—McQueen discusses the conceptual connections between the concurrent projects and how they relate to, but also expand, his artistic practice. Donna De Salvo, Dia’s senior adjunct curator, special projects, joins the artist in conversation. 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 isthe 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: Max Neuhaus

Saturday, September 21, 2024, 10:30 am
Dia Beacon

Play Sets

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Event detailsSaturday, September 21, 202410:30–11:15 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 September 21, Dia educators will focus on the work of Max Neuhaus. 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

Paul Pfeiffer on Bruce Nauman

Thursday, September 26, 2024, 6:30 pm
Dia Chelsea

Artists on Artists Lecture Series

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Event details Thursday, September 26, 2024 6:30 pm Dia Chelsea 537 West 22nd Street New York, New York Free. Spaces are limited; registration opens Thursday, September 12. Paul Pfeiffer was born in Honolulu in 1966. His work across video, sculpture, and photography explores how mass media shapes perception and consciousness. Recent solo exhibitions include Red Green Blue, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York (2022); Still Life, ICP and MTA Arts & Design, New York (2023); and Prologue to the Story of the Birth of Freedom, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (2023–24). Recent group exhibitions include those at Palazzo Grassi, Venice (2024); High Museum of Art, Atlanta (2022); and the Toronto Biennial of Art (2022). Pfeiffer lives in New York.

Learning Program

Play Sets: Donald Judd

Saturday, September 28, 2024, 10:30 am
Dia Beacon

Play Sets

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Event detailsSaturday, September 28, 202410:30–11:15 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 September 28, Dia educators will focus on the work of Donald Judd. 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, September 29, 2024, 10 am–5 pm
Dia Beacon

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Event detailsSunday, September 29, 202410 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.

Learning Program

Play Sets: Larry Bell

Sunday, September 29, 2024, 10:30 am
Dia Beacon

Play Sets

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Event detailsSunday, September 29, 202410:30–11:15 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 September 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.

Learning Program

Play Sets: Lucas Samaras

Saturday, October 5, 2024, 10:30 am
Dia Beacon

Play Sets

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Event detailsSaturday, October 5, 202410:30–11:15 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 October 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.

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