Robert Lehman Lecture Series at Dia Chelsea
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Read moreThe Robert Lehman Lectures on Contemporary Art series, 1992-2004, fostered discussion of Dia's West 22nd Street exhibition program and was funded by the Robert Lehman Foundation. Scholars and critics from a variety of disciplines analyzed work shown at Dia within the context of the artists' aesthetic and overall body of work and in relation to larger issues in contemporary culture. Anthologies of the lectures are for sale in the Books section of Dia's website.
Past Events
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Molly Nesbit on Pierre Huyghe
January 7, 2004, Dia Chelsea
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Branden W. Joseph on Robert Whitman
December 18, 2003, Dia Chelsea
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Marina Warner on Pierre Huyghe
December 10, 2003, Dia Chelsea
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Tom McDonough on Robert Whitman's early work
April 17, 2003, Dia Chelsea
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Mark Godfrey on Jo Baer
February 20, 2003, Dia Chelsea
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Rebecca Comay on Rosemarie Trockel
December 12, 2002, Dia Chelsea
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Benjamin H.D. Buchloh on Gerhard Richter
November 14, 2002, Dia Chelsea
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Ulrich Loock on Max Neuhaus
October 3, 2002, Dia Chelsea
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Alexander Alberro on Gilberto Zorio's Microfoni
May 30, 2002, Dia Chelsea
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Rosalind Krauss on Bruce Nauman
May 23, 2002, Dia Chelsea
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Miwon Kwon on Jorge Pardo
May 9, 2002, Dia Chelsea
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Jan Avgikos on Roni Horn
April 4, 2002, Dia Chelsea
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Dave Hickey on Alfred Jensen
February 28, 2002, Dia Chelsea
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Colin Gardner on Diana Thater
December 13, 2001, Dia Chelsea
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Richard Shiff on Bridget Riley
May 31, 2001, Dia Chelsea
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Peter Halley on Bridget Riley
April 5, 2001, Dia Chelsea
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Dirk Snauwaert on Panamarenko
March 22, 2001, Dia Chelsea
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Peter Wollen on Rodney Graham and Bruce Nauman
December 14, 2000, Dia Chelsea
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Russell Ferguson on Vera Lutter
October 19, 2000, Dia Chelsea
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Jan Tumlir on Rodney Graham
May 18, 2000, Dia Chelsea
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Boris Groys on Thomas Schütte
March 2, 2000, Dia Chelsea
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Bérènice Reynauld on Stan Douglas
October 7, 1999, Dia Chelsea
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Elaine Showalter on Douglas Gordon
September 23, 1999, Dia Chelsea
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Victor Stoichita on Andy Warhol's Shadows
June 3, 1999, Dia Chelsea
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Jonathan Crary on Robert Irwin
April 8, 1999, Dia Chelsea
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Pamela Kort on Joseph Beuys
December 3, 1998, Dia Chelsea
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David Sylvester on Richard Serra
November 5, 1998, Dia Chelsea
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Michael Govan on Dan Flavin: "Sacred and Profane"
April 30, 1998, Dia Chelsea
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Patricia Mellencamp, "The High Style of Tracey Moffatt: Gesture, Affect, Fantasy"
March 12, 1998, Dia Chelsea
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Mark Taylor on Fred Sandback: "Sculpture"
April 3, 1997, Dia Chelsea
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Michael Newman on Hanne Darboven, "Remembering and Repeating: Hanne Darboven's Work"
March 13, 1997, Dia Chelsea
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Marina Warner on Juan Muñoz, "Here Comes the Bogeyman!: Goya, the Grotesque, and Juan Muñoz"
February 6, 1997, Dia Chelsea
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Beatriz Colomina on Jessica Stockholder, "Spaces Within Spaces"
May 23, 1996, Dia Chelsea
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Marianne Stockebrand on Dan Flavin, "Pink, yellow, blue, green and other colors in the work of Dan Flavin"
February 29, 1996, Dia Chelsea
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Christopher Philips on Gerhard Richter, "Atlas, Gerhard Richter's World"
September 29, 1995, Dia Chelsea
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Robert Farris Thompson on Frédéric Bruly Bouabré, "Scripts of the Spirit: African Ideograms in World Art History"
June 22, 1995, Dia Chelsea
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Dave Hickey on Andy Warhol: "Business Art"
April 27, 1995, Dia Chelsea
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Sarat Maharaj on Alighiero e Boetti: "A Double-Cressing, Visible Grammer: Around and About the Work of Alighiero e Boetti"
March 23, 1995, Dia Chelsea
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Dot Tuer on James Coleman: "Blindness and Insight: The Act of Interrogation Vision in the Work of James Coleman"
May 19, 1994, Dia Chelsea
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Susan Stewart on tropos by Ann Hamilton
February 10, 1994, Dia Chelsea
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Jeff Wall on On Kawara: "Monochrome and Photojournalism in On Kawara's Today Paintings"
December 16, 1993, Dia Chelsea
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Stephan Schmidt-Wulffen on Katharina Fritsch: "Low Fidelity: Notes on the Work of Katharina Fritsch"
April 23, 1993, Dia Chelsea
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Maureen P. Sherlock on Robert Gober: "Decoy:Displacements of Loss and Hope"
January 14, 1993, Dia Chelsea
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John Vinci on Dan Graham: "Dan Graham: Sculpture as Architecture, Architecture as Sculpture"
November 12, 1992, Dia Chelsea
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Antje von Graevenitz on Joseph Beuys: "The Old and the New Initiation Rites: Joseph Beuys and Epiphany"
September 24, 1992, Dia Chelsea
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Stephan Bann on Brice Marden: "'A Cold Coming' - Brice Marden's Wager with Tradition"
May 14, 1992, Dia Chelsea
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Anne Rorimer on Displacement by Lawrence Weiner
March 26, 1992, Dia Chelsea
Read moreRelated Books
Robert Lehman Lectures on Contemporary Art #1
The first in the series of the Robert Lehman Lectures on Contemporary Art. This edition features artists Lawrence Weiner, Brice Marden, Joseph Beuys, Dan Graham, Robert Gober, Katharina Fritsch, On Kawara, Ann Hamilton, and James Coleman.
Robert Lehman Lectures on Contemporary Art #2
The second in the series of the Robert Lehman Lectures on Contemporary Art. This edition features artists Alighiero Boetti, Andy Warhol, Frédéric Bruly Bouabré, Jessica Stockholder, Juan Muñoz, Hanne Darboven, Fred Sandback, Dan Flavin, and Richard Serra.
Robert Lehman Lectures on Contemporary Art #3
The third in the series of the Robert Lehman Lectures on Contemporary Art. This edition features artists Joseph Beuys, Robert Irwin, Douglas Gordon, Stan Douglas, Thomas Schütte, and Rodney Graham.
Robert Lehman Lectures on Contemporary Art #4
Includes lectures by writers and scholars from diverse disciplines, each dedicated to an exhibition at Dia. With essays by Dirk Snauwaert, Richard Shiff, Colin Gardner, Dave Hickey, Jan Avgikos, Miwon Kwon, Rosalind Krauss, and Alexander Alberro. Introduction by Lynne Cooke.
Robert Lehman Lectures on Contemporary Art #5
The long-awaited final volume of this series features essays on artists Jo Baer, Pierre Huyghe, Vera Lutter, Gerhard Richter, Rosemarie Trockel, and Robert Whitman.