Past Programs | Program

A very small work of yellow, black, and white hangs on a far white wall and a very large work of yellow, red, and white hangs on a near white wall with two doorways positioned between them.

Exhibition

Robert Ryman

December 9, 2015–July 30, 2016, Dia Chelsea

Poetry Reading

Amy King and Alan Davies

Tuesday, December 8, 2015, 6:30 pm, Dia Chelsea

A black canvas with centered white sans-serif type that reads

Dia Talks

Scott Lyall on On Kawara

Tuesday, November 17, 2015, 6:30 pm, Dia Chelsea

Poetry Reading

Robert Hershon and Simon Pettet

Tuesday, November 10, 2015, 6:30 pm, Dia Chelsea

A woman carrying white fabric in one hand drags a dolly with a coyote seated on it through an industrial space lit by blue light and projections.

Dia Talks

Silke Otto-Knapp on Joan Jonas

Tuesday, October 27, 2015, 6:30 pm , Dia Chelsea

Poetry Reading

Tracie Morris and Shelagh Patterson

Tuesday, October 13, 2015, 6:30 pm, Dia Chelsea

Interior of a cave. A small silhouette of a person in the center of the entrance of the cave.

Project

Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla: Puerto Rican Light (Cueva Vientos)

September 23, 2015–January 31, 2018, Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla, Puerto Rican Light (Cueva Vientos)

Project

Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla: Puerto Rican Light (Cueva Vientos) [Versión en español]

September 23, 2015–January 31, 2018, Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla, Puerto Rican Light (Cueva Vientos)

Square, framed painting with thin, horizontal, bluish-white stripes alternating with thick, pale-yellow bands.

Dia Talks

Jennie C. Jones on Agnes Martin

Tuesday, September 22, 2015, Dia Chelsea

Poetry Reading

Todd Colby and Bobby Byrd

Tuesday, September 15, 2015, Dia Chelsea

Several people sit, lie and stand in a large, dark room with purple and pink lighting. A projection of a multicolored abstract image is centered on the far wall, and sculptural objects hang on the left and right walls.

Exhibition

Dia 15 VI 13 545 West 22 Street Dream House

June 16–October 24, 2015, Dia Chelsea

Industrial neon lights in various colors hang vertically on several intersecting white scrims with doorways.

Exhibition

Robert Irwin: Excursus: Homage to the Square³

June 1, 2015–November 26, 2018, Dia Beacon

Special Event

Robert Irwin in conversation with Director Jessica Morgan

Saturday, May 30, 2015, 2 pm, Dia Beacon

A Dia educator points to a square in a paper quilt of black icons and symbols on the wall as two youth attentively gaze upwards.

Learning Program

Dia:Beacon Arts Education Program

Thursday, May 21, 2015, Dia Beacon

Orange, gray, and blue text outlined in black is placed high on a wall in a bookshop lobby. The text reads:

Dia Talks

Erica Baum on Lawrence Weiner

Tuesday, May 19, 2015, Dia Chelsea

Book Launch

Gramsci Monument Book Launch with Thomas Hirschhorn

Saturday, May 16, 2015, Dia Chelsea

Poetry Reading

Joanne Kyger and Stephen Motika

Tuesday, May 12, 2015, Dia Chelsea

Dia Talks

Monuments, Monumentality, Monumentalization: Chris Kraus and Rosalyn Deutsche

Saturday, May 2, 2015, Dia Chelsea

A small building with two sets of double doors and a white picket fence, one door is open revealing a lit entryway inside. There are two windows on the floor above, a 3rd window in the attic, and a structure like a steeple on the back right side. The sky is a purple blue.

Exhibition

Dan Flavin: icons

April 30, 2015–May 7, 2017, Dia Bridgehampton

Outdoor bleachers on gravel are framed by a large glass window, while another set sit inside a large sunlit industrial space.

Dia Talks

David Levine on Bruce Nauman

Tuesday, April 21, 2015, Dia Chelsea

Two adults stand inframe of projected images and text and stare back at the viewer.

Special Event

Nick Mauss and Ken Okiishi, Poetry as not, with singing

Thursday, April 16, 2015, 6:30 pm, Dia Chelsea

Poetry Reading

Peter Gizzi and Franck André Jamme Translated and Read by Norma Cole

Tuesday, April 14, 2015, Dia Chelsea

Twelve pairs of metal circles and squares laid flat on a wood floor.

Exhibition

Walter De Maria

April 3, 2015–April 4, 2016, Dia Beacon

Four sculptures in a the corner large gallery with wood floors and white walls, including copper squares in a row coming from the wall, a large dark square in the middle of the space, and a triangular stack of wood in the corner.

Dia Talks

Pierre Leguillon on Carl Andre

Tuesday, March 24, 2015, Dia Chelsea

Poetry Reading

Clark Coolidge and Edmund Berrigan

Tuesday, March 10, 2015, Dia Chelsea

Poetry Reading

Bill Berkson and Matt Longabucco

Tuesday, February 17, 2015, Dia Chelsea

Poetry Reading

Basil King and Gregoire Pam Dick

Tuesday, February 10, 2015, Dia Chelsea

Two pairs of thin black lines stretch from a cement floor to a white celing in a large white room filled with natural light. Two thin green outlines of rectanglar shapes rest against white walls of two adjoining rooms.

Dia Talks

Mary Ellen Carroll on Fred Sandback

Tuesday, February 3, 2015, Dia Chelsea

Project

Occasions and other occurrences hosted by Isabel Lewis

June 24, 2016–July 17, 2016, Dia Chelsea

Several envelopes addressed to Sol Lewitt are placed on a wooden surface above two drawings that respectively feature many angles of a person's head and arm.

Exhibition

A Friendship: Carl Andre’s Works on Paper from the LeWitt Collection

June 7, 2014–April 12, 2015, Dia Bridgehampton

Many wooden columns and several gray bricks are positioned in different configurations such as archways and Tetris-like shapes across the wooden floor of a long white room.

Exhibition

Carl Andre: Sculpture as Place, 1958–2010

May 5, 2014–March 9, 2015, Dia Beacon

Two rectangular wooden blocks form a T-shape and stand above another similar, horizontal block that extends in the opposite direction of the top horizontal block. This configuration sits on a wooden floor near a row of light-colored bricks that extend from a white wall.

Touring

Carl Andre: Sculpture as Place, 1958–2010

May 5, 2014–July 24, 2017, Touring

Black-and-white photograph of factory with curving cylindrical tubes, tanks, and other protuberances

Exhibition

Bernd and Hilla Becher

January 18, 2013–August 22, 2016, Dia Beacon

Four identically square-shaped, different color-blocked paintings of yellow, blue, red, and black hang on a white wall.

Exhibition

Blinky Palermo

March 24, 2012–June 23, 2019, Dia Beacon

A graphic of the title in bold san serfi all capital letters saying

Project

Ian Wilson: The Pure Awareness of the Absolute / Discussions

Fall 2011–Spring 2015, Dia Beacon

The corner of a gallery, with both walls lined with many iterations of the same vertically oriented print of an abstracted and vague shadow form that descends on the left and moves across the bottom edge. Each print is in black and one other color, either red, coral, peach, white, grey, shades of green, or deep purple.

Touring

Andy Warhol, Shadows (on tour)

April 21, 2011–January 15, 2017, Touring

Square, framed painting with six alternating horizontal bands of pale yellow and blue.

Exhibition

Agnes Martin

December 13, 2008–March 26, 2017, Dia Beacon

Exhibition

Sol Lewitt: Drawing Series...

September 16, 2006–November 13, 2017, Dia Beacon

Large industrial space under green light with projection screens serving as walls, displaying images of a small room containing various debris including furniture.

Exhibition

Bruce Nauman

May 3, 2003–November 10, 2019, Dia Beacon