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April 12 to May 12, 2017

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Members’ Event

Family Art-Making Activities

Saturday, April 15, 2017, 10–11 am
Dia Beacon

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.

Performance

François Chaignaud & Cecilia Bengolea

Friday, May 12, 2017, 3 pm
Dia Beacon

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Over two weekends from May 12–14 and May 19–21, François Chaignaud and Cecilia Bengolea’s program at Dia:Beacon traces the trajectory of the artists’ twelve-year creative partnership. Each performance includes three consecutive episodes, transitioning through the layered references that inform their collaborative work—from the musical structures of polyphonic singing, through the transcendent dance of Sylphides (2009), to the recent ensemble work Dub Love (2014). Event DetailsFriday, May 12, 2017, 3 pm Dia:Beacon3 Beekman StreetBeacon, NY 12508 The program will be staged in Dia:Beacon’s lower-level gallery. Free with museum admission. Reservations are not required, but recommended. Cecilia Bengolea was born in Buenos Aires in 1979. She lives and works in Paris. François Chaignaud was born in Rennes, France, in 1983. He lives and works in Paris.

Book Launch

Readings in Contemporary Poetry: An Anthology Book Launch

Thursday, April 13, 2017, 6:30 pm
Dia Chelsea

Book Launches

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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.

Poetry Reading

Christine Kanownik and Ron Horning

Tuesday, April 18, 2017, 6:30 pm
Dia Chelsea

Readings in Contemporary Poetry

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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 Talks

Christophe Cherix on Hanne Darboven

Saturday, April 22, 2017, 2:30 pm
Dia Chelsea

Dia Talks

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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 Talks

Josh Kline on Dan Graham

Tuesday, April 25, 2017, 6:30 pm
Dia Chelsea

Artists on Artists Lecture Series

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Event DetailsTuesday, April 25, 2017, 6:30 pmDia:Chelsea535 West 22nd Street, 5th FloorNew York City Free for Dia members; $10 general admission; $6 admission for students and seniors Advance tickets are no longer available. Walk up tickets will be sold based on availability.Josh Kline was born in Philadelphia in 1979. Recent solo exhibitions include Unemployment at the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy (2016), and Freedom at both the Portland Art Museum, Oregon (2016), and Modern Art Oxford (2015). In 2016, his work was also included in the Berlin Biennale and group exhibitions at venues including Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC, and White Cube, London. He currently lives and works in New York City.

Book Launch

Robert Ryman Book Launch

Saturday, April 29, 2017, 2:30 pm
Dia Beacon

Book Launches

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Event DetailsSaturday, April 29, 2017, 2:30 pm Dia:Beacon3 Beekman StreetBeacon, NY 12508 A conversation with two of Robert Ryman’s sons, Cordy and Ethan Ryman, and Dia deputy director and chief curator, Courtney J. Martin, will occur at 2:30 pm. Books will be available for purchase. Free with museum admission. Reservations encouraged. Generous support for Robert Ryman has been provided by the Fundación Jumex Arte Contemporáneo and the Audrey Irmas Foundation for Social Justice, and additional support was provided by Anthony Grant and the Marx Family Advised Fund at Aspen Community Foundation. A publication of the Sackler Institute at Dia Art Foundation.

Dia Talks

Sam Falls on Robert Irwin

Tuesday, May 2, 2017, 6:30 pm
Dia Chelsea

Artists on Artists Lecture Series

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Event DetailsTuesday, May 2, 2017, 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.Sam Falls was born in San Diego in 1984. Recent solo exhibitions have been presented at Ballroom Marfa, Texas, Fondazione Giuliani, Rome, and the Kitchen, New York City (all in 2015). He has realized several public works including Light Over Time, a multisite project with the Public Art Fund in New York City (2014–15), Untitled (Healing pavilion…) at Collins Park, Miami (2015), and Untitled (Tuileries Colored Sculpture) in Jardins des Tuileries, Paris (2013). He lives and works in Los Angeles.

Poetry Reading

Eleni Sikelianos and Will Alexander

Tuesday, May 9, 2017, 6:30 pm
Dia Chelsea

Readings in Contemporary Poetry

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Event DetailsTuesday, May 9, 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. Eleni SikelianosEleni Sikelianos is the author of ten books of poetry and hybrid works, most recently Make Yourself Happy (Coffee House Press, 2017). These works frequently employ a range of forms (poetry, prose, document, and visual) and fields (often the sciences) as a means to explore ways of being and knowing. She has collaborated widely with other artists, including composer Philip Glass and filmmaker Ed Bowes. Her work has earned her two National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, a New York Foundation for the Arts award, and a National Poetry Series selection, among other awards. A frequent participant in international festivals and programs, her poems and hybrid works have been translated into over a dozen languages. Sikélianòs has taught poetry in public schools, homeless shelters, and prisons, and is part of the guest faculty at the Naropa University Summer Writing Program in Boulder, Colorado. She currently teaches at the University of Denver, where she founded and runs the Writers in the Schools program. from Your Kingdomyou arrange your syllables like a flockof self-forming starlings in a draft aimed outyour mouth and at an ear—there isanother here—you see the dimtraceries of human faces, charcoal in a night chamberbut also so palea pupil could not find such a pearlin a milk pool and other hues as the toneworld presents itself as sculpted and so you rise to greet it, sing, around the timetight patches of photoreceptors amassinto the absurdity of eyes which have to develop50, a hundred times and birdsdo it better than you, youstumble at the gate with the sharksand hummingbirds, a photon hits an opsin and tripsa switch and you learn to bend the light, transparentcrystallins clumping like jelly and itgoes opaque—were yousupposed to keep those feathers?if not for flight, why? Will AlexanderWill Alexander is a poet, novelist, essayist, philosopher, aphorist, playwright, visual artist, and pianist. He is author of thirty collections of writing in the above-mentioned genres. He is a recipient of the Whiting Fellowship for Poetry, California Arts Council Fellowship, PEN Oakland-Josephine Miles Literary Award, American Book Award, and Jackson Poetry Prize. His work has been translated into French, German, Romanian, and Spanish. Beginning After-ExistenceOn the threshing floorthere are spiders which astonishwith replications which irradiate which strike resistance which terrify which de-foil carnivorous amoebas with each fiber with each mandible with each blood knot gone astray flailing embryonic shifting out of red or exerted magma threading their weight throughout a melanotic angle into ghostly osmosis

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