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Dia Talks

Christophe Cherix on Hanne Darboven

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

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.

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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