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November 1 to December 1, 2024

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Learning Program

Play Sets: Meg Webster

Saturday, November 2, 2024, 10:30 am
Dia Beacon

Event detailsSaturday, November 2, 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 November 2, Dia educators will focus on the work of Meg Webster. 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.

Book Launch

Interaction: A Fred Sandback Book Launch

Wednesday, November 6, 2024, 6:30 pm
Dia Chelsea

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Event details Wednesday, November 6, 20246:30 pm Dia Chelsea537 West 22nd StreetNew York, New York Free. Spaces are limited; register here. In collaboration with the Fred Sandback Archive and Dancing Foxes Press, Dia is pleased to launch the publication Interaction: Fifty Years of Fred Sandback and Dia Art Foundation. In 1968, Fred Sandback (1943–2003) mounted his first solo exhibition at Heiner Friedrich’s Munich gallery, displaying works made from elastic cord or acrylic yarn that traced planes and volumes in space. Thus began a long-term relationship that extended to Dia Art Foundation, the institution co-founded by Friedrich in 1974. Until now, little has been published on Sandback’s extraordinary alliance with Dia. Essayists Lynne Cooke, Julian M. Rose, Corinna Thierolf, and Edward A. Vazquez, as well as conversation partners Matilde Guidelli-Guidi and Curtis Harvey, unearth and explore archival documents, sketches, and photographs to reveal how the institution offered Sandback both space and time to meticulously hone his sculptural interventions in the architectural environments of Dia, including the Fred Sandback Museum in Winchendon, Massachusetts, and Dia Beacon, New York. A conversation between three of the authors—Rose, Vazquez, and Guidelli-Guidi—takes place at Dia Chelsea’s program space, presented by Jessica Morgan, Dia’s director, and moderated by Humberto Moro, deputy director of program.

Learning Program

Saturday Studio at Dia Beacon

Saturday, November 9, 2024, 10:30 am
Dia Beacon

Saturday Studio

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Event detailsSaturday, November 9, 202410:30 am–12 pm Dia Beacon Learning Lab3 Beekman StreetBeacon, New York Free. Spaces are limited; registration opens Friday, November 1, 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

Play Sets: Felix Gonzalez-Torres

Saturday, November 16, 2024, 10:30 am
Dia Beacon

Play Sets

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Event detailsSaturday, November 16, 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 November 16, Dia educators will focus on the work of Felix Gonzalez-Torres. 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

Activations: Friday Night Lights with Gillian Walsh

Saturday, November 16, 2024, 4 pm
Offsite

Activations

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Event detailsSaturday, November 16, 20244 pm Soccer Field at Chelsea Park450 West 27th StreetNew York, New York Free. RSVP recommended; registration opens Friday, November 8. Gillian Walsh is an artist and choreographer from New York. She works with materiality, immateriality, and the dancer. She often produces stark formal choreographies that utilize stillness and a wide range of source materials. Recent works include Wilderness, Danspace Project/New York City Players (2023); May, Gropius Bau, Berlin (2022); and Fame Notions, Performance Space New York (2019). Gillian regularly collaborates and performs with other artists, most recently Richard Maxwell, Neal Medlyn, and Sarah Michelson. She completed her Master of Divinity at Union Theological Seminary, New York. 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

Sam Gilliam Award Program: Ibrahim Mahama

Thursday, November 21, 2024, 6:00 pm
Dia Chelsea

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Event details Thursday, November 21, 20246:00 pm Dia Chelsea537 West 22nd StreetNew York, New York Free. Spaces are limited; register here. Inaugural Sam Gilliam Award recipient Ibrahim Mahama discusses his artistic and community-oriented practice. Deploying patchworks of reused materials in large-scale textile and found-object installations, Mahama transforms built environments and gallery interiors into spaces for critical reflection on the social lives of objects. Collaboration is key to his practice, as materials are collectively gathered, remade, and installed. Furthering a communal approach beyond his installations, Mahama channels proceeds from his work into establishing interdisciplinary institutions in Tamale, Ghana—his hometown—utilizing a circular economy to drive cultural regeneration and social transformation. Ibrahim Mahama was born in Tamale, Ghana, in 1987. Solo exhibitions include those at Norval Foundation, Cape Town (2019); the High Line, New York (2021); and Kunsthalle Osnabrück, Germany (2023). He has participated in group exhibitions such as the 35th Bienal de São Paulo (2023); 18th International Architecture Exhibition of the Venice Biennale (2023); and 15th Sharjah Biennial, United Arab Emirates (2023). Mahama was the artistic director of the 35th Ljubljana Biennale of Graphic Arts, Slovenia (2023). In 2024, he opened a major commission at the Barbican Centre, London, and a solo exhibition at Fruitmaket, Edinburgh. Mahama lives in Accra, Kumasi, and Tamale, all in Ghana.

Learning Program

Play Sets: Melvin Edwards

Saturday, November 23, 2024, 10:30 am
Dia Beacon

Play Sets

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Event detailsSaturday, November 23, 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 November 23, Dia educators will focus on the work of Melvin Edwards. 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: On Kawara

Sunday, November 24, 2024, 10:30 am
Dia Beacon

Play Sets

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Event detailsSunday, November 24, 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 November 24, Dia educators will focus on the work of On Kawara. 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: Steve McQueen

Saturday, November 30, 2024, 10:30 am
Dia Beacon

Play Sets

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Event detailsSaturday, November 30, 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 November 30, Dia educators will focus on the work of Steve McQueen. 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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