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Soho Projects Tour
with Director Philippe Vergne
 Saturday, May 7, 2011, 6 pm The Broken Kilometer 393 West Broadway, between Spring and Broome Streets The New York Earth Room 141 Wooster Street, between West Houston and Prince Streets
Tour will begin at The Broken Kilometer.
Free to the general public. Space is limited to the first 20 respondents.
Reservations are required.
For reservations, click here.
Join Dia director Philippe Vergne for a visit to Walter De Maria's iconic long-term installations. Vergne will share the evolution and history behind The Broken Kilometer (1979) and The New York Earth Room (1977), two of Dia's earliest commissions.
Dia's tour is part of The Festival of Ideas for the New City, a five-day collaborative initiative during which nonprofit organizations, universities, arts institutions and community groups invite the public to participate in a variety of symposia, independent projects, and public events centered around the common theme of "imagining the future city."
For a complete schedule of festival programming, click here.
Image: (left) Walter De Maria, The Broken Kilometer, 1979. Long-term installation at 393 West Broadway, New York City. Photo: John Abbott. Copyright Dia Art Foundation. (right) Walter De Maria, The New York Earth Room, 1977. Long-term installation at 141 Wooster Street, New York City. Photo: John Cliett. Copyright Dia Art Foundation.
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St. Luke's Chamber Ensemble
Bohemian Rhapsodies
Saturday, May 8, 2011, 2 pm
Dia:Beacon, Riggio Galleries 3 Beekman Street, Beacon, NY 12508 845 440 0100 www.diaart.org $35 general admission; $25 for Dia members; $10 students; children under 12 are free For tickets and more information, click here. The May concert at Dia:Beacon will feature quartets by Schumann and Mahler, and prodigal late 19th century Russian composer Anton Arensky. The concert, which will be held in the John Chamberlain gallery, will be the last in the partnership between Dia and St. Luke's, as the Ensemble will be focusing its programming at the DiMenna Center, its new performance and rehearsal space in New York City. MAHLER Piano Quartet in A minor
ARENSKY Quartet No. 2 for violin, viola and two cellos in A minor
SCHUMANN Piano Quartet in E-flat Major, Op. 47 Image: St. Luke's Chamber Ensemble at Dia:Beacon. |
Robert Whitman, MoonRain (2010)
 Saturday, May 14, 2011, 2 pm Dia:Beacon, Riggio Galleries 3 Beekman Street, Beacon, NY 12508 845 440 0100 www.diaart.org Free with museum admission. For reservations, click here.
Dia Art Foundation is pleased to present the recent theater piece, MoonRain, by Robert Whitman, a pioneer of multimedia installation and performance. Referencing a famous collection of 18th century Japanese ghost stories by Ueda Akinari, the innovative work is set inside a fog environment designed by Fujiko Nakaya and will be staged in Dia:Beacon's lower level gallery. For more information, click here. Image: Robert Whitman, MoonRain, 2010. |
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Dia:Beacon Spring Benefit
Sunday, May 15, 2011
Dia:Beacon, Riggio Galleries
3 Beekman Street, Beacon, NY 12508
845 440 0100
www.diaart.org
Each spring Dia Art Foundation celebrates Dia:Beacon with the annual Spring Benefit, a full day of art and performance that provides vital support for Dia. The 2011 Benefit - co-chaired by Sandra Brant and Ingrid Sischy, Alison Spear, and Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez of Proenza Schouler - will commence with refreshments, followed by a performance of Robert Whitman's MoonRain (2010) and a seated lunch amidst John Chamberlain's sculptures.
Attendees are invited to spend time in the museum at their leisure throughout the day, and a family program will be offered during lunch for younger guests.
For more information and to purchase tickets, click here.
NOTE: Dia:Beacon will be closed to the public on Sunday, May 15, 2011.
Image: (left) Cocktails at the 2010 Spring Benefit. Photo: Stephanie Berger. (right) Cocktails in the John Chamberlain gallery at the 2008 Spring Benefit. Photo: Stephanie Berger.
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Lecture at the Hispanic Society Mabel Wilson on Koo Jeong A: Constellation Congress  Saturday, May 21, 2011, 2 pmDia at the Hispanic Society of AmericaBroadway between 155th and 156th Streets, New York City Take number 1 train to 157th Street and Broadway 212 989 5566 www.diaart.org Award-winning architectural designer and scholar Mabel O. Wilson discusses Koo Jeong A's dynamic spatial interventions into the Hispanic Society's gallery. Mabel Wilson is an associate professor in architecture at Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, where she currently conducts courses, scholarly research and design experiments which investigate space and cultural memory in black America, race and visual culture, and new technologies. She received a doctorate in American Studies from NYU (2007), and an M. Arch from Columbia's GSAPP (1991) and directs the GSAPP's program for Advanced Architectural Research and the HBCU Leadership Project. For more information, click here. Image: (left) Koo Jeong A, Mystral, 2010. Diamona, 2010. Courtesy the artist. Photo: Cathy Carver, New York. (right) Koo Jeong A, Ousss Sister, 2010. Courtesy the artist. Photo: Cathy Carver, New York. |
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Gallery Talk
Jay Sanders on Walter De Maria
Saturday, May 28, 2011, 2 pm
Dia:Beacon, Riggio Galleries
3 Beekman Street, Beacon, NY 12508
845 440 0100 www.diaart.org
Free with museum admission. For reservations, click here. Jay Sanders is a curator and writer based in New York. He is currently co-organizing the 2012 Whitney Biennial with Elisabeth Sussman, and previously, he was a Gallery Director at Greene Naftali. He has programmed performance, music, and film venues across New York City, and has been published in Artforum, Parkett, Texte zur Kunst, BOMB, among other publications. For more information on upcoming Gallery Talks, click here. Image: (left) Jay Sanders. (right) Walter De Maria, Silver Meters, 1976. Stainless steel and silver, 1 of 8 units. Dia Art Foundation. Photo: Jerry Thompson. |
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