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November 9 to December 9, 2019

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Member Shopping Days

November 29–December 30, 2019
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Event Details Additional holiday discounts for members November 29–December 30, 2019 Members receive a 30% discount on all Dia publications and a 20% discount on other items purchased online or at the Dia:Beacon bookshop. Gift memberships are 20% off and include a complimentary Dia journal. Exclusions apply. Please note: Gift memberships must be purchased either over the phone at 212 293 5514 or in person at Dia:Beacon to receive this special rate. Gift membership offers are not valid online. Join, renew, or give a gift membership today.

Learning Program

Saturday Studio

Saturday, November 9, 2019, 10:30 am–12 pm
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Saturday Studio

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Event DetailsSaturday, November 9, 2019, 10:30 am–12 pm Dia:Beacon3 Beekman StreetBeacon, New York Join practicing artists for a free monthly workshop of art making and play in the Learning Lab at Dia:Beacon. Designed for all ages, Saturday Studio is a family friendly program that is most suitable for children ages five and up. All families participating in the Saturday Studio program receive free admission to Dia:Beacon for the day. Saturday Studio begins promptly at 10:30 am on the second Saturday of every month. Advanced reservations are no longer available; a limited number of spaces are offered on a first-come, first-served basis on Saturday, November 9. The sign-up process begins in the admissions area at 10 am. For more information about Saturday Studio artist educators and workshops, sign up for the Saturday Studio mailing list or e-mail beaconprogram@diaart.org.

Dia Talks

A Conversation between Jessica Bell Brown and Eric N. Mack on Sam Gilliam

Saturday, November 23, 2019, 2 pm
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Dia Talks

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Event DetailsSaturday, November 23, 2019, 2 pm Dia:Beacon3 Beekman StreetBeacon, New York Free with museum admission. Space is limited and offered on a first-come, first-served basis. Jessica Bell Brown is a writer, curator, and an art historian based in New York. She is currently the consulting curator for Gracie Mansion Conservancy, New York, where she organized She Persists: A Century of Women Artists in New York, 1919–2019 (2019). Bell Brown is a PhD candidate in modern and contemporary art in the department of art and archaeology at Princeton University. Her research explores American painting and identity in the post-civil-rights decade. Before pursuing graduate study, she worked in programming capacities at Creative Time and the Brooklyn Academy of Music. From 2016 to 2017, Bell Brown was the museum research consortium fellow in the department of painting and sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. As a writer and critic, she has penned critical essays on contemporary artists Sam Gilliam, Eric N. Mack, Kerry James Marshall, Senga Nengudi, Jennifer Packer, Charles Ray, and Wilmer Wilson IV, among others. Her writing and art criticism has appeared in Artforum, the Brooklyn Rail, Flash Art, and Hyperallergic, in addition to catalogues and publications for the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, Lévy Gorvy, Museum of Modern Art, and Studio Museum in Harlem. Eric N. Mack was born in 1987 in Columbia, Maryland, and lives and works in New York City. He received his BFA from Cooper Union, New York, in 2010, and his MFA from Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, in 2012. Recent solo presentations of his work include Dye Lens at Scrap Metal Gallery in Toronto (2019–20); In austerity, stripped from its support and worn as a sarong at Power Station in Dallas (2019); Lemme walk across the room at the Brooklyn Museum, New York (2019); and Vogue Fabrics, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York (2017). Mack’s work was included in the 2019 biennial at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Major group exhibitions include In the Abstract, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams (2017–18); Ungestalt, Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland (2017); Blue Black, Pulitzer Arts Foundation, Saint Louis, Missouri (2017); Making & Unmaking, Camden Arts Centre, London (2016); and Greater New York, MoMA PS1, Long Island City, New York (2015).

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