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February 10 to March 12, 2025

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Learning Program

Play Sets: Gerhard Richter

Saturday, February 15, 2025, 10:30 am
Dia Beacon

Event details Saturday, February 15, 202510:30–11:15 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 February 15, Dia educators will focus on the work of Gerhard Richter. 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: Mary Heilmann

Saturday, February 22, 2025, 10:30 am
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Play Sets

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Event details Saturday, February 22, 202510:30–11:15 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 February 22, Dia educators will focus on the work of Mary Heilmann. 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.

Special Event

Hudson Valley Free Day

Sunday, February 23, 2025, 10 am–4 pm
Dia Beacon

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Event detailsSunday, February 23, 202510 am–4 pm Dia Beacon3 BeekmanBeacon, New York 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. To get tickets for Hudson Valley Free Day please fill out our Free Admission Request. Hudson Valley Free Days at Dia Beacon are made possible by Charlie Pohlad.

Learning Program

Play Sets: Cameron Rowland

Sunday, February 23, 2025, 10:30 am
Dia Beacon

Play Sets

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Event details Sunday, February 23, 202510:30–11:15 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 February 23, Dia educators will focus on the work of Cameron Rowland. 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.

Poetry Reading

Poetry &: Skip Tracer with Jive Poetic

Saturday, March 1, 2025, 2 pm
Dia Beacon

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Event detailsSaturday, March 1, 20252 pm Dia Beacon3 Beekman StreetBeacon, New York Free with museum admission. DJ and educator Jive Poetic’s hybrid poetry-prose memoir Skip Tracer (2024) blends memories of his childhood and adolescence with his extensive genealogical research to uncover the many paths his ancestors took in the New World—Jamaica, Brazil, Cuba, Panama, and the United States—as well as sojourns in Britain. To skip trace is to search for someone’s whereabouts, particularly that of the missing or of a person who does not want to be found. Despite the unfathomable losses of identity, family, language, and culture in the Middle Passage, family stories passed-down, correspondence, legal records, and other artifacts are evidence of not just daily existence but resistance to ongoing oppression from the de jure segregation of earlier eras to long-standing police violence against black and brown communities. For this event, inspired in part by Steve McQueen’s Bass (2024) on view in Dia Beacon’s lower-level gallery, Jive Poetic remixes live audio, video, and imagery from the book while sampling other important artistic and cultural references to the diaspora, using poetry and music to tell a new story of struggle and resilience. Jive Poetic is a Brooklyn-based writer, organizer, and educator. He received his BA in media studies from the State University of New York at Buffalo and his MFA in writing and activism from Pratt Institute, Brooklyn. Jive Poetic is the founder of Insurgent Poets Society and Carnival Slam: Cultural Exchange, as well as a co-founder of the Brooklyn Poetry Slam. In 2017, he became the first recipient of the John Morning Award for Art and Service.

Learning Program

Play Sets: Max Neuhaus

Saturday, March 1, 2025, 10:30 am
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Play Sets

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Event detailsSaturday, March 1, 202510:30–11:15 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 March 1, Dia educators will focus on the work of Max Neuhaus. 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

Saturday Studio at Dia Beacon

Saturday, March 8, 2025, 10:30 am
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Saturday Studio

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Event detailsSaturday, March 8, 202510:30 am–12 pm Dia Beacon Learning Lab3 Beekman StreetBeacon, New York Free. Spaces are limited; registration opens Friday, February 28, 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.

Tour

Public Tour of Steve McQueen

Saturday, March 8, 2025, 2 pm
Dia Chelsea

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Dia Talks

A Conversation with Renée Green

Saturday, March 8, 2025, 2 pm
Dia Beacon

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Event details Saturday, March 8, 20252 pm Dia Beacon3 Beekman StreetBeacon, New York Free with museum admission. On the occasion of Renée Green: The Equator Has Moved, the artist joins Dia curator and co–department head Jordan Carter in conversation. The program takes place in the Gerhard Richter gallery at Dia Beacon. Renée Green was born in Cleveland in 1959. She graduated from Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut, in 1981, and participated in the Whitney Museum of American Art’s Independent Study Program in New York in 1989–90. Surveys of her work have been held at Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne, Switzerland (2009–10); Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco (2010); and KW Institute for Contemporary Art and daadgalerie, Berlin (2021–22), in collaboration with Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich (2023). Extensive solo presentations include those at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (1993); Secession, Vienna (1999); Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona (2000); National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, United Kingdom (2008); MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles (2015); and Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Cambridge, Massachusetts (2016–18). In 2009, a retrospective of her films took place at Jeu de Paume, Paris. Her work has been included in numerous biennials, including those at the Whitney Museum of American Art (1993 and 2022), Venice (1993), Gwangju (1997), Berlin (2001), Seville (2006), and Istanbul (2007), as well as in Documenta 11, Kassel (2002). A prolific writer, Green’s essays and fiction have appeared in magazines and journals such as Collapse, October, Texte zur Kunst, and Transition. She is the author of Other Planes of There: Selected Writings (2014), and the editor of Negotiations in the Contact Zone (2003). Green is a professor in the Art, Culture, and Technology program at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She lives in Somerville, Massachusetts, and New York.

Dia Talks

Julia Scher on Bruce Nauman

Wednesday, March 12, 2025, 6:30 pm
Dia Chelsea

Artists on Artists Lecture Series

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Event details Wednesday, March 12, 20256:30 pm Dia Chelsea 537 West 22nd Street New York, New York Free. Spaces are limited; register for the event here. Julia Scher was born in Los Angeles in 1954. Scher’s work across performance, video, installation, and sculpture conflates apparatuses of surveillance and technology with the politics of gender. Recent solo presentations include Maximum Security Society at Kunsthalle Zürich (2022–23) and Abteiberg Museum, Mönchengladbach, Germany (2023), and American Landscape at Ortuzar Projects, New York (2024). Recent group exhibitions include those at the Hessel Museum of Art at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York (2018); Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (2018); and Museum of Modern Art, New York (2023). Scher has taught at Columbia University, New York; Harvard University, Cambridge; and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, among others. Scher lives in Cologne.

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