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In December of 2021, visited Dia Beacon for the first time. Now a year later, we are excited to partner with him for this live performance video and hope you enjoy seeing Dia Beacon through his eyes.
Stay tuned for an exclusive interview with RM.
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"Establish enigmas, not explanations."―Robert Smithson
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Members' Shopping Days at Dia start today! From November 25 through December 31, Dia members receive a 30% discount on all Dia publications and a 20% discount on other items purchased at Dia bookshops, or a 30% discount online. Give the gift of membership this year for 10% off and receive a complimentary Dia item. Upgrades for current or lapsed members will also get a 20% discount. More information at our link in bio.
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Now open at Dia Beacon, “Jack Whitten: The Greek Alphabet Paintings” is the first-ever exhibition devoted to Whitten’s Greek Alphabet painting series of 1975–78. Whitten used the Greek alphabet as the organizational principle of this landmark yet long overlooked series, which consists of variations on abstract, black and white compositions and experiments in mark-making. Bringing together forty paintings from private and institutional lenders, this display offers unique insight into a pivotal moment in Whitten’s practice. More information and tickets are available at our link in bio.
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Join us Saturday, November 19, from 12:30–3:30 pm at the Chelsea Recreation Center for the next installment in our Activations series. Inspired by particles, ingredients, and secret spaces, artist Stella Zhong's workshop converts the Chelsea Recreation Center’s spin room into the home base for a large-scale miniature sculpture operation. Participants are invited to choose from a buffet of small objects and assemble them into site-specific installations throughout the recreation center’s common areas. Link in bio for more information and a link to register.
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Dorothea Rockburne will close on Sunday, November 27. To experience the exhibition before it ends, plan your visit now to Dia Beacon, located at 3 Beekman Street in Beacon, New York. Open Friday–Monday, 10 am–4 pm. Link in bio for tickets.
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Looking for free fall activities in New York City? Dia Chelsea is open Wednesday–Saturday, 12–6 pm and admission is free. Come experience Camille Norment's site-specific commission "Plexus" in person at 537 West 22nd Street, and don’t forget to check out the program calendar in our link in bio for more free programming.
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Join us on Saturday, November 5, from 1:30–3:30 pm, for the first workshop in our fall Activations series. Sited in the Chelsea Recreation Center’s basketball gymnasium, artist Johann Diedrick’s Activation program “Swish” is a temporary sound installation that proposes listening as an act of spectatorship. Participants are invited to join Diedrick in live mixing audio recordings of past basketball games into a new sonic experience of the site. Additional recording and editing by Caleb Giles. Link in bio for more information.
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Fall at Dia Beacon 🍂
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On Saturday, October 15, join Dia and a practicing artist for a free outdoor workshop of art making and exploration. Designed for all ages, Saturday Studio is a family friendly program that is most suitable for children ages 5 and up. Saturday Studio begins promptly at 10:30 am at Common Ground Farm in Wappingers Falls, New York. Space is limited and reservations are required. Visit our link in bio for more information.
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"I'm more interested in seeing what the material tells me than in imposing my will on it."—John Chamberlain
This Saturday, artist Jessica Vaughn will be in conversation with Dia's Stephen Kwok and Alexis Lowry, on Charlotte Posenenske. We invite you to join them at 2 pm on Saturday, October 8 at Dia Beacon. The conversation is free to attend with museum admission. Space is limited and offered on a first-come, first-served basis. More information at our link in bio.
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Dia Beacon is open Friday–Monday, 10 am–5 pm. Additionally, Dia Beacon provides public tours every Saturday and Sunday at 12pm and 1:30pm. Tours are free with admission. Tickets available at our link in bio.
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Fall programming at Dia is in full swing. Join us tomorrow at 6:30 pm for the first in our fall Artists on Artists lectures at Dia Chelsea: Naeem Mohaiemen with Marina Tabassum on Diller + Scofidio. A list of all upcoming programs and links to RSVP are available at our link in bio.
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"Andy Warhol: Shadows" at Dia Beacon will close Sunday, October 2. A single painting in multiple parts, "Shadows" is one of Warhol’s most abstract works, yet one that cohesively synthesizes key elements of his practice, including film, painting, photography, and screenprinting. Reserve your tickets now at our link in bio, to see the work before it closes in just a few short weeks.
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Join us at Dia Chelsea on Wednesday, September 14, at 6:30 pm for a conversation with artist Camille Norment. Norment will be joined in conversation by physicist and musician Stephon Alexander and by musicologist and vocalist Nina Sun Eidsheim. They will address the artist’s work in the context of vibration and the metaphysics of sound. The event is free but please register at our link in bio.
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Dia invites you to celebrate the release of the LP box set “Carl Craig: Party/After-Party” at a listening party and signing event with Carl Craig, on Tuesday, September 13, in Chelsea. The LP will be available for purchase for the first time at the launch. In 2020 Dia premiered the large-scale installation and sound work “Party/After-Party” (2020) by acclaimed Detroit-based techno DJ and producer Carl Craig. “Party/After-Party” (2020) lives on in this box set of two vinyl LPs featuring four tracks of studio versions of the artist’s commission and live recordings at Dia Beacon.
The event is free but an RSVP is required. Visit our link in bio for more information.
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Tomorrow, August 28, is Hudson Valley Free Day at Dia Beacon. 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.
Join us by calling 845 231 0811 or emailing [email protected] to reserve tickets.
Returning to view at Dia Beacon, Times of the Day (1974–76) is a pivotal series of paintings in Blinky Palermo’s oeuvre, yet rarely seen in its entirety. Conceived by the artist after his relocation to New York from Düsseldorf in 1973, Times of the Day comprises six four-part works and originates Palermo’s serialized, multipart Metal Pictures (or "Metallbilder," in German), the last body of work in his short yet pronounced career. Experience the paintings for yourself at Dia Beacon, open Friday–Monday from 10 am–5 pm. Tickets available at our link in bio.
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Now on view: "5 Figures of Structure" (1987), at Dia Beacon. In part a medium for representing material relationships in the world, language is at the core of Lawrence Weiner’s practice. Each installation of his works can be conceived in relation to the venue and context. At Dia Beacon, visitors encounter Weiner’s text works in different environments—in a stairwell, in the cafe, over the admissions desk, or on the back of the building. This installation brings a key work back to the galleries, and marks the first presentation of the artist’s work at Dia since his passing in 2021.
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Now on view: Robert Irwin at Dia Beacon. “Full Room Skylight – Scrim V – Dia Beacon” exemplifies what the artist describes as his site-conditioned mode of working. This large-scale work places his work in dialogue with concurrent presentations of works by Larry Bell, Melvin Edwards, and Charles Gaines—all of whom have critically contributed to Minimal, Postminimal, and Conceptual art on the West Coast. Given Irwin's central role in the redesign of Dia Beacon, this display celebrates his foundational vision for the museum and offers the rare opportunity to appreciate the interconnections between the artistic and architectural aspects of his work.
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Summer in the garden✨ Join us in Beacon Friday–Monday, 10 am–5 pm. Additionally, Dia Beacon provides public tours every Saturday and Sunday at 12pm and 1:30pm. Tours are free with admission. Tickets available at our link in bio.
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Don’t forget that tomorrow, July 31, is Hudson Valley Free Day at Dia Beacon. 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.
Join us by calling 845 231 0811 or emailing [email protected] to reserve tickets.
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Throughout her career, Camille Norment has probed what she terms “cultural psychoacoustics,” defined as the investigation of sociocultural phenomena through sound and music—specifically instances of sonic and social dissonance. In particular, she explores three tones: the bell, feedback, and the sine wave.
Her site-specific commission at Dia Chelsea remains on view until 2023. We invite you to come experience the works in the space, open Wednesdays–Saturdays, from 12–6 pm. Admission is always free.
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Dia Beacon is participating in July 22–24. Join us for extended hours from 5–8 pm this Saturday, July 23rd, and enjoy 10% off new or renewing memberships by visiting the ticketing desk at Dia Beacon, or by using the code DIAUAW10 online from July 22-24.
While you're here, don't forget to check out the more than 100 other exhibitions and projects on view in Upstate New York as part of this event. For more information and tickets, visit our link in bio.
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“You need light to see, you need space to work.”—Larry Bell
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A reminder that the next two Saturdays in July (16 & 23) are a part of our Midsummer Evenings. With visiting hours extended until 8 pm, and unique wine and dining options in the cafe, we hope you'll join us at Dia Beacon for this special experience. Please reserve tickets at our link in bio to ensure admission.
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“I knew that the actual space of a room could be broken down and played with by planting illusions of real light (electric light) at crucial junctures in the room's composition.”—Dan Flavin
Join us at Dia Beacon for Midsummer Evenings, a series featuring extended visiting hours in the galleries, and unique wine and dining options in the cafe until 8 pm. Our first of three events is this Saturday, July 9. Reserve your ticket now at our link in bio.
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Dia Beacon is open this holiday weekend from 10 am–5 pm, including Monday, July 4. Please reserve tickets online at our link in bio to ensure admission.
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“My Drape paintings are never hung the same way twice. The composition is always present, but one must let things go, be open to improvisation, spontaneity, what’s happening in a space while one works.”―Sam Gilliam, 1933-2022
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An exhibition of new work by Leslie Hewitt opened at Dia Bridgehampton on June 24. Exploring ideas of light, sound, and inertia, has realized an array of low-profile sculptures that are laterally distributed within and outside the gallery space, in addition to a diagrammatic score composed in collaboration with artist Jamal Cyrus. More information about the year-long exhibition is available via our link in bio.
Dia Bridgehampton is open Friday–Sunday from 12–3 pm and 3:30–6 pm. Admission is free.
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"There are theories in art, just like in music. You switch from Little Jimmy Dickens to Bob Dylan and Miles Davis to Art Blakey. Integrating of classical music and jazz, that's the same thing you do in painting."—Sam Gilliam
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As you make plans to visit Dia's sites this month, please be aware that The Broken Kilometer (1979) and The New York Earth Room (1977), Walter De Maria’s landmark installations in SoHo, will be closed to the public from June 19 for conservation work. These iconic works will reopen in Fall 2022 and early 2023, respectively.
Walter De Maria, The Broken Kilometer, 1979. © Estate of Walter De Maria. Photo: Jon Abbott
"It's a constant, continuous, spectacular world we live in, and every day you see things that just knock you out, if you pay attention."―Robert Irwin
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"Conceptual Art is a sounding instrument between printed words, luminous writings, and letters scrawled in a hasty nervous instinctive calligraphy."—Mario Merz
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Walking into the long weekend with Larry Bell. Dia Beacon is open Friday—Monday, 10 am—5 pm. Tickets available at our link in bio.
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“I think earth is the material with the most potential because it is the original source material.”—Michael Heizer
Hudson Valley residents receive free admission to Dia Beacon on the last Sunday of each month. Join us this Sunday, May 29 by calling 845 231 0811 or emailing [email protected] to reserve tickets.
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Founded in 1974, Dia Art Foundation is committed to advancing, realizing, and preserving the vision of artists. At Dia:Beacon and Dia:Chelsea in Beacon and New York City, Dia fulfills its mission by commissioning new projects, organizing temporary exhibitions, displaying its collection of art from the 1960s and 1970s, and presenting programs of public engagement. Dia also maintains several long-term sites including: Walter De Maria’s The New York Earth Room (1977) and The Broken Kilometer (1979), Max Neuhaus’s Times Square (1977), and Joseph Beuys’s 7000 Eichen (7000 Oaks, which was inaugurated at Documenta 7 in 1982), all of which are located in New York City; the Dan Flavin Art Institute (established in 1983) in Bridgehampton, New York; De Maria’s The Lightning Field (1977) in western New Mexico; Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty (1970) in Great Salt Lake, Utah; and De Maria’s The Vertical Earth Kilometer (1977) in Kassel, Germany.
For more information on exhibitions, long-term installations, projects, and Dia’s sites, visit www.diaart.org.
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