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November 13 to December 13, 2021

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26/11/2021 00:00 26/11/2021 23:45 America/New_York Member Shopping Days Event Details November 26–December 31 From November 26 through December 31, members receive a 30% discount on all Dia publications and a 20% discount on other items purchased online or at the bookshops in Dia Beacon and Dia Chelsea. Gift memberships will be 10% off and include a complimentary Dia tote bag. Upgrades for current or lapsed members will also have a 20% discount. Exclusions apply. Please note: gift memberships and membership upgrades must be purchased either over the phone at 212 293 5503 or in person at Dia Beacon or Dia Chelsea to receive this special rate. Not valid online. Join, renew, or give a gift membership today.     TURE DD/MM/YYYY FREQ=DAILY; Member Shopping Days

Poetry Reading

Poetry &: Worker Writers School


Dia Beacon

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13/11/2021 14:00 13/11/2021 23:45 America/New_York Poetry &: Worker Writers School Saturday, November 13, 2 pm, Dia BeaconSaturday, November 20, 2 pm, Fish & Chikzz, New Windsor, New York Free. Register for the November 13th event here.Register for the November 20th event here. Building on nearly thirty-five years of poetry programs at Dia Art Foundation and curated by José Olivarez, Poetry & is a new series that invites poets to reimagine their work and its public presentation. In conversation with other artists and art forms, each event offers new encounters with poetry at and beyond Dia.  For Poetry &’s inaugural event, members of the Worker Writers School, an organization that promotes poetry by working-class, unionized writers, will intervene in Dia Beacon’s galleries. From November 12 to 15, a poem in neon by Christina Yvette Lewis from the recent collection Coronavirus Haiku will be displayed in the museum. On Saturday, November 13, at 2 pm, poets Lorraine Garnett and Christine Yvette Lewis will read and join a conversation with the school’s founder Mark Nowak. After the Dia engagement, Hudson Valley residents can continue to experience the neon as it will be installed in local storefronts. This includes the site of the reading on Saturday, November 20, at 2 pm at Fish & Chikzz in New Windsor, New York, where poets Alando McIntyre and Kelebohile Nkhereanye will read their work. The installation will then go on long-term view at the Worker Justice Center in Kingston, New York.  About the curator and artists Lorraine Garnett is a nanny in Brooklyn. She has previously worked as a preschool teacher, after-school supervisor, and summer camp activities director. Her poems are published in forthcoming anthologies including Good Cop/Bad Cop (Flowersong Press) and I Can’t Breathe: Poetic Anthology of Fresh Air (Kistrech Poetry). She has read her poems at, among others, the Workers Unite Film Festival, Berl’s Brooklyn Poetry Shop, and the Crush Reading Series at Woodbine collective. Born and raised in Jamaica, Garnett lives in Brooklyn.  Alando McIntyre joined the Worker Writers School while working as a cashier at Golden Krust Bakery. After earning his BA in accounting from CUNY Baruch College, New York, he now works as a humanities teacher at Success Academy, New York. McIntyre has read his poems at, among others, the Nuyorican Poets Cafe and PEN World Voices Festival. Born in Kingston, Jamaica, he resides in Brooklyn. Kelebohile “Kele” Nkhereanye is a food street vendor, food justice activist, community chef, and community leader in East New York. She is an immigrant from Lesotho in southern Africa, where she learned the value of street vending as an opportunity for economic empowerment. Nkhereanye is a retired station agent for the New York City Transit Authority; Brooklyn Community Board 5 board member and cochair of Parks, Sanitation, and Environment; and founder of Soil Afrika Global. She is a committed member of the Street Vendor Project. Nkhereanye has earned an associate’s degree in hospitality management from New York College of Technology, degrees in sociology and women’s studies from Hunter College, and a masters in public administration from the Metropolitan College of New York. She has read at the PEN World Voices Festival, Nuyorican Poet Café, Union Square farmer’s market, and Berl’s Brooklyn Poetry Shop. Mark Nowak is a poet, cultural critic, playwright, and essayist from Buffalo, New York. Nowak is the author of three poetry collections:  Revenants (2000), Shut Up Shut Down (2004), and Coal Mountain Elementary (2009). A portion of his critical book, Social Poetics (2020), chronicles his work with the Worker Writers School. José Olivarez is the son of Mexican immigrants. His debut book of poems, Citizen Illegal (2018), was a finalist for the PEN/Jean Stein Award, a winner of the 2018 Chicago Review of Books Poetry Prize, and named a top book of 2018 by NPR and the New York Public Library. He is coeditor of the anthology The Breakbeat Poets Vol. 4: LatiNext (2020) and cohost of the poetry podcast The Poetry Gods. His work has been featured in the New York Times and Paris Review.   Christine Yvette Lewis is a leader, organizer, and secretary/cultural outreach coordinator with Domestic Workers United (DWU), where she encourages culture and art as strongholds in the work for social justice and domestic workers’ rights. As a worker-leader and multidisciplinary performance artist, Lewis has pulled from her Calypsonian roots and skills as a steel-drum player, spoken-word artist, and poet to get her message out and build power. She has spoken out on initiatives like the Domestic Workers’ Bill of Rights at venues such as The Colbert Report. For eight years, she has helped organize a partnership between DWU members and the Public Theater’s Public Works productions of Shakespeare in the Park. She has been an active member of the Worker Writers School since its inception in 2011.     Dia Beacon FALSE DD/MM/YYYY Poetry &: Worker Writers School

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17/11/2021 18:00 17/11/2021 00:00 America/New_York eagles with eyes closed for the sun tunnels Event DetailsWednesday, November 17, 2021, 6 pm (launch event) Further ScreeningsThursday, November 18, 2021, 12–6 pmFriday, November 19, 2021, 12–6 pmSaturday, November 20, 2021, 12–6 pm Dia Chelsea537 West 22nd StreetNew York, New York Free. Register for the launch event here.   eagles with eyes closed is a musical project consisting of Tobias Linklater (Alutiiq/Omaskêko Cree), and Duane Linklater (Omaskêko Cree), which explores the generative experience of watching films together as intergenerational collaborators, as father and son, and as two Indigenous artists. Their methodology of simultaneous watching and playing back to the image with various instrumentations and processes, improvisations, and a careful non-diegetic Indigenous positionality results in complex propositions to the selected films and images and to the audience itself.  eagles with eyes closed is an articulation of their love (indifference) for art, film, and music. eagles with eyes closed are two generationsssss listening at the past present and future.  eagles with eyes closed will be presenting a new video / score / drawing for Nancy Holt’s seminal film Sun Tunnels (1978).   Tobias Linklater (Alutiiq/Omaskêko Cree) was born in 2004 and lives in North Bay, Ontario. He is a senior student at West Ferris Secondary School in North Bay, Ontario. His short films have been included in exhibitions at Trinity Square Video, Toronto (2020); All My Relation Arts, Minneapolis, Minnesota (2017); and 80WSE Gallery, New York (2016­–17). His video Origin of the Hero (2016) is in the permanent collection of the Tate Modern, London. Duane Linklater (Omaskêko Ininiwak from Moose Cree First Nation) was born in 1976 and lives in North Bay, Ontario. His practice explores the physical and theoretical structures of the museum in relation to the current and historical conditions of Indigenous peoples, their objects, and approaches to materials. He articulates his explorations through sculpture, photography, film and video, installation, and text works. He has presented solo exhibitions at the Frye Museum, Seattle (2021); Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University, Lansing, (2017); 80WSE Gallery, New York (2016–17); Mercer Union, Toronto (2016); Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City (2015); and Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia (2015). Linklater has been featured in group exhibitions, most recently at SFMOMA, San Francisco (2019); Artists Space, New York (2019); and Taipei Biennial (2019).  The Artists on Artists Lecture Series is organized by Matilde Guidelli-Guidi, associate curator at Dia, with Theodora Bocanegra Lang, curatorial assistant. Dia Chelsea FALSE DD/MM/YYYY eagles with eyes closed for the sun tunnels

Learning Program

Saturday Studio on the Farm


Common Ground Farm

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20/11/2021 10:30 20/11/2021 12:00 America/New_York Saturday Studio on the Farm Event DetailsSaturday, November 20, 2021, 10:30 am–12 pm Common Ground Farm79 Farmstead LaneWappingers Falls, New York Join practicing artists for free outdoor art and exploration workshops offered in partnership with Common Ground Farm. 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 Common Ground Farm. In the case of inclement weather, the program will take place on Sunday, November 21, 2021, 10:30 am–12 pm. In consideration of everyone’s safety, space is limited and reservations are required. Reservations open on Monday, November 15, 2021, at 9 am. For those that are not able to attend the program, artist-designed exercises for the home will be available through the Saturday Studio mailing list. Program Guidelines: Families attending Saturday Studio must include at least one adult caretaker. Groups should be no larger than six people. The program will take place outdoors with social distancing. Families will have individual stations and materials. Programs may involve walking and exploring the grounds of the farm. Face coverings are required throughout the duration of the program except when families are seated at their individual stations. Advanced reservations are required. No walk-ins will be accepted. An inherent risk of exposure to COVID-19 exists in any public place where people are present. By attending Saturday Studio at Common Ground Farm, you voluntarily assume all risks related to exposure to COVID-19. For more information, email beaconprogram@diaart.org.  Common Ground is a nonprofit community farm that works hard to ensure food and educational access to everyone in our community. To learn more about their work, visit commongroundfarm.org. Common Ground runs on the generous support of its community. If you are able, please consider making a donation.      Common Ground Farm FALSE DD/MM/YYYY Saturday Studio on the Farm

Poetry Reading

Poetry &: Worker Writers School


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20/11/2021 14:00 20/11/2021 23:45 America/New_York Poetry &: Worker Writers School Saturday, November 20, 2 pm, Fish & Chikzz, New Windsor, New York Free. Register here. Building on nearly thirty-five years of poetry programs at Dia Art Foundation and curated by José Olivarez, Poetry & is a new series that invites poets to reimagine their work and its public presentation. In conversation with other artists and art forms, each event offers new encounters with poetry at and beyond Dia.  For Poetry &’s inaugural event, members of the Worker Writers School, an organization that promotes poetry by working-class, unionized writers, intervened in Dia Beacon’s galleries. From November 12 to 15, a poem in neon by Christina Yvette Lewis from the recent collection Coronavirus Haiku was displayed in the museum. On Saturday, November 13, at 2 pm, poets Lorraine Garnett and Christine Yvette Lewis read and joined a conversation with the school’s founder Mark Nowak. After the Dia engagement, Hudson Valley residents can continue to experience the neon as it will be installed in local storefronts. This includes the site of the reading on Saturday, November 20, at 2 pm at Fish & Chikzz in New Windsor, New York, where poets Alando McIntyre and Kelebohile Nkhereanye will read their work. The installation will then go on long-term view at the Worker Justice Center in Kingston, New York.  About the curator and artists Lorraine Garnett is a nanny in Brooklyn. She has previously worked as a preschool teacher, after-school supervisor, and summer camp activities director. Her poems are published in forthcoming anthologies including Good Cop/Bad Cop (Flowersong Press) and I Can’t Breathe: Poetic Anthology of Fresh Air (Kistrech Poetry). She has read her poems at, among others, the Workers Unite Film Festival, Berl’s Brooklyn Poetry Shop, and the Crush Reading Series at Woodbine collective. Born and raised in Jamaica, Garnett lives in Brooklyn.  Alando McIntyre joined the Worker Writers School while working as a cashier at Golden Krust Bakery. After earning his BA in accounting from CUNY Baruch College, New York, he now works as a humanities teacher at Success Academy, New York. McIntyre has read his poems at, among others, the Nuyorican Poets Cafe and PEN World Voices Festival. Born in Kingston, Jamaica, he resides in Brooklyn. Kelebohile “Kele” Nkhereanye is a food street vendor, food justice activist, community chef, and community leader in East New York. She is an immigrant from Lesotho in southern Africa, where she learned the value of street vending as an opportunity for economic empowerment. Nkhereanye is a retired station agent for the New York City Transit Authority; Brooklyn Community Board 5 board member and cochair of Parks, Sanitation, and Environment; and founder of Soil Afrika Global. She is a committed member of the Street Vendor Project. Nkhereanye has earned an associate’s degree in hospitality management from New York College of Technology, degrees in sociology and women’s studies from Hunter College, and a masters in public administration from the Metropolitan College of New York. She has read at the PEN World Voices Festival, Nuyorican Poet Café, Union Square farmer’s market, and Berl’s Brooklyn Poetry Shop. Mark Nowak is a poet, cultural critic, playwright, and essayist from Buffalo, New York. Nowak is the author of three poetry collections:  Revenants (2000), Shut Up Shut Down (2004), and Coal Mountain Elementary (2009). A portion of his critical book, Social Poetics (2020), chronicles his work with the Worker Writers School. José Olivarez is the son of Mexican immigrants. His debut book of poems, Citizen Illegal (2018), was a finalist for the PEN/Jean Stein Award, a winner of the 2018 Chicago Review of Books Poetry Prize, and named a top book of 2018 by NPR and the New York Public Library. He is coeditor of the anthology The Breakbeat Poets Vol. 4: LatiNext (2020) and cohost of the poetry podcast The Poetry Gods. His work has been featured in the New York Times and Paris Review.   Christine Yvette Lewis is a leader, organizer, and secretary/cultural outreach coordinator with Domestic Workers United (DWU), where she encourages culture and art as strongholds in the work for social justice and domestic workers’ rights. As a worker-leader and multidisciplinary performance artist, Lewis has pulled from her Calypsonian roots and skills as a steel-drum player, spoken-word artist, and poet to get her message out and build power. She has spoken out on initiatives like the Domestic Workers’ Bill of Rights at venues such as The Colbert Report. For eight years, she has helped organize a partnership between DWU members and the Public Theater’s Public Works productions of Shakespeare in the Park. She has been an active member of the Worker Writers School since its inception in 2011.   Offsite FALSE DD/MM/YYYY Poetry &: Worker Writers School

Special Event

Hudson Valley Free Day


Dia Beacon

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28/11/2021 00:00 28/11/2021 23:45 America/New_York Hudson Valley Free Day 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. Please contact 845 231 0811 or tickets@diaart.org to reserve tickets. Hudson Valley Free Days at Dia Beacon are made possible by Charlie Pohlad.     Dia Beacon TURE DD/MM/YYYY Hudson Valley Free Day

Members’ Event

Member Closing Tour of Lucy Raven


Dia Chelsea

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02/12/2021 18:00 02/12/2021 23:45 America/New_York Member Closing Tour of Lucy Raven Event DetailsThursday, December 2, 6 pmFor all members. Join or renew today. Dia Chelsea537 West 22nd StreetNew York, New York Join us at Dia Chelsea for a private tour of Lucy Raven before it closes at the end of the December. Curator Alexis Lowry will conduct opening remarks at 6 pm, after which visitors are free to see the installations independently. Remarks will be held in the talk space at 537 West 22nd Street. RSVP at membership@diaart.org or 212 293 5503. Dia Chelsea FALSE DD/MM/YYYY Member Closing Tour of Lucy Raven

Poetry Reading

Poetry &: Worker Writers School


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04/12/2021 16:00 04/12/2021 23:45 America/New_York Poetry &: Worker Writers School Event DetailsSaturday, December 4, 4 pm Pugsly’s Barbershop 3 Main Street Kingston, New YorkFree. Register here. With live, simultaneous English-Spanish translation.Building on nearly thirty-five years of poetry programs at Dia Art Foundation and curated by José Olivarez, Poetry & is a new series that invites poets to reimagine their work and its public presentation. In conversation with other artists and art forms, each event offers new encounters with poetry at and beyond Dia. For Poetry &’s inaugural engagement, members of the Worker Writers School, an organization that promotes poetry by working-class, unionized writers, have been the featured artists in a month-long series of readings and installations at Dia Beacon and throughout the Hudson Valley. In this final event, poets Seth Goldman and Christine Yvette Lewis will read at Pugsly’s Barbershop in Kingston, New York. This reading will also feature representatives from the Worker Justice Center of New York. A poem in neon by Lewis from the recent collection Coronavirus Haiku will stay on long-term view in Worker Justice Center’s Kingston office. The series began with an intervention in Dia Beacon’s galleries. From November 12 to 15, the neon haiku was displayed in the museum, and on Saturday, November 13, at 2 pm, poets Lorraine Garnett and Christine Yvette Lewis read and joined a conversation with the school’s founder Mark Nowak. After the Dia engagement, Hudson Valley residents have continued to experience the neon through installations in local storefronts, including Fish & Chikzz in New Windsor, New York, where poets Alando McIntyre and Kelebohile “Kele” Nkhereanye read their work on Saturday, November 20. About the curator and artistsLorraine Garnett is a nanny in Brooklyn. She has previously worked as a preschool teacher, after-school supervisor, and summer camp activities director. Her poems are published in forthcoming anthologies including Good Cop/Bad Cop (Flowersong Press) and I Can’t Breathe: Poetic Anthology of Fresh Air (Kistrech Poetry). She has read her poems at, among others, the Workers Unite Film Festival, Berl’s Brooklyn Poetry Shop, and the Crush Reading Series at Woodbine collective. Born and raised in Jamaica, Garnett lives in Brooklyn. Seth Goldman was born in East New York and raised in Rosedale, Queens. He has a bachelor’s degree from City College, New York. For two years in the early 1990s, he worked as junior high school English teacher but has spent most of the past four decades as a taxi driver. A member of the New York Taxi Workers Alliance, Goldman has read his poems at PEN World Voices Festival, Berl’s Brooklyn Poetry Shop, Nuyorican Poets Café, WBAI, and elsewhere.Christine Yvette Lewis is a leader, organizer, and secretary/cultural outreach coordinator with Domestic Workers United (DWU), where she encourages culture and art as strongholds in the work for social justice and domestic workers’ rights. As a worker-leader and multidisciplinary performance artist, Lewis has pulled from her Calypsonian roots and skills as a steel-drum player, spoken-word artist, and poet to get her message out and build power. She has spoken out on initiatives like the Domestic Workers’ Bill of Rights at venues such as The Colbert Report. For eight years, she has helped organize a partnership between DWU members and the Public Theater’s Public Works productions of Shakespeare in the Park. She has been an active member of the Worker Writers School since its inception in 2011.Alando McIntyre joined the Worker Writers School while working as a cashier at Golden Krust Bakery. After earning his BA in accounting from CUNY Baruch College, New York, he now works as a humanities teacher at Success Academy, New York. McIntyre has read his poems at, among others, the Nuyorican Poets Cafe and PEN World Voices Festival. Born in Kingston, Jamaica, he resides in Brooklyn.Kelebohile “Kele” Nkhereanye is a food street vendor, food justice activist, community chef, and community leader in East New York. She is an immigrant from Lesotho in southern Africa, where she learned the value of street vending as an opportunity for economic empowerment. Nkhereanye is a retired station agent for the New York City Transit Authority; Brooklyn Community Board 5 board member and cochair of Parks, Sanitation, and Environment; and founder of Soil Afrika Global. She is a committed member of the Street Vendor Project. Nkhereanye has earned an associate’s degree in hospitality management from New York College of Technology, degrees in sociology and women’s studies from Hunter College, and a master’s in public administration from the Metropolitan College of New York. She has read at the PEN World Voices Festival, Nuyorican Poet Café, Union Square farmer’s market, and Berl’s Brooklyn Poetry Shop.Mark Nowak is a poet, cultural critic, playwright, and essayist from Buffalo, New York. Nowak is the author of three poetry collections: Revenants (2000), Shut Up Shut Down (2004), and Coal Mountain Elementary (2009). A portion of his critical book, Social Poetics (2020), chronicles his work with the Worker Writers School.José Olivarez is the son of Mexican immigrants. His debut book of poems, Citizen Illegal (2018), was a finalist for the PEN/Jean Stein Award, a winner of the 2018 Chicago Review of Books Poetry Prize, and named a top book of 2018 by NPR and the New York Public Library. He is coeditor of the anthology The Breakbeat Poets Vol. 4: LatiNext (2020) and cohost of the poetry podcast The Poetry Gods. His work has been featured in the New York Times and Paris Review.     Offsite FALSE DD/MM/YYYY Poetry &: Worker Writers School

Dia Talks

Olga Balema on Maria Nordman


Dia Chelsea

Artists on Artists Lecture Series

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08/12/2021 18:00 08/12/2021 00:00 America/New_York Olga Balema on Maria Nordman Event DetailsWednesday, December 8, 2021, 6 pm Dia Chelsea537 West 22nd StreetNew York, New York Free. Register for the event here.Established in 2001, the Artists on Artists Lecture Series highlights the work of contemporary artists from the perspective of their colleagues and peers. For her lecture, Olga Balema presents on the work of Maria Nordman. The productive tension, in Nordman’s work, between opacity and visibility, fragment and totality, offers a structure to Balema’s lecture, which will unfold through quotation, indirect speech, and a re-mediated sequence of projected images of Nordman’s work up to 1990—the year when the artist presented her exhibition at Dia Center for the Arts, New York. Olga Balema was born in Lviv, Ukraine, in 1984. Balema received an MFA in New Genres from the University of California, Los Angeles, and participated in residencies at the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam, and Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Madison, Maine. Solo presentations of her work have been held at, among others, at Camden Art Centre, London; Kunstverein Nürnberg, Nuremberg, Germany; and Swiss Institute, New York. The artist has participated in national and international group exhibitions at venues including Haus der Kunst, Munich; Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, Switzerland; and Moderna Museet, Stockholm. Her work was also featured in the New Museum Triennial, New York (2015); Baltic Triennial, Vilnius, Lithuania (2018); and Whitney Biennial, New York (2019). The Artists on Artists Lecture Series is organized by Matilde Guidelli-Guidi, associate curator at Dia, with Theodora Bocanegra Lang, curatorial assistant. Dia Chelsea FALSE DD/MM/YYYY Olga Balema on Maria Nordman

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