For this series, Dia invites artists to curate a playlist that brings together music they’re listening to now, in the studio, or that has been meaningful to them during their life. Photo: Don Stahl Trouble… started as a meditation on some of my interwoven listening and media production, mostly from 2018 to the future. Some of the collected tracks go back to my media installation Could You Visit Me in Dreams? (2018) in Vienna, through subsequent works like SM BNGRZ.03.01–03 (2021), also in Vienna; Some Munich Moments 1937–1972 (2022) in Munich; the more recent DFAI.01-05 (2023) at Dia Bridgeha ..read more

By Kamilah N. Foreman Chryssa & New York, installation view, Dia Chelsea, New York, 2023. © Estate of Chryssa, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens (EMST). Photo: Don Stahl As Chryssa & New York continues its U.S. tour, following its debut at Dia Chelsea, we are looking back on this important, long-overdue exhibition. Curated by Megan Holly Witko, external curator at Dia Art Foundation, and Michelle White, senior curator, the Menil Collection, Houston, this survey show examines the pivotal early period in the Greek-born artist’s career and tracks the development of her preoccup ..read more

It was partly a decision and partly a consequence. Still, for a long time, I have used editing as a departure point in my practice. It is possible to think of editing as a procedure (a more open term than a technique) that can take the form of a question used to enter a text; providing a purpose, a mission, a light. Editing has a proteic quality that allows us to deal with the fragmentary of the world, either through suturing or excision. Sequencing is a constitutive part of audiovisual language and one of the editing operations, which involves organizing certain information, events, and stim ..read more

Photo: Don Stahl Activations is a series of interdisciplinary public workshops designed by artists in response to civic spaces in New York City. Each activation invites participants to encounter a readymade site through the lens of an artistic practice, reimagining them as spaces of creative possibility. All are welcome to participate. Inspired by particles, ingredients, and secret spaces, Stella Zhong's workshop converted the Chelsea Recreation Center’s spin room into the home base for a large-scale miniature sculpture operation. Participants were invited to choose from a buffet of small obj ..read more

Dia joins more than 150 cultural institutions around the globe on the Bloomberg Connects app to offer visitors a free guide Dia Art Foundation is excited to announce a new, digital guide available on Bloomberg Connects, the free arts and cultural app. The Bloomberg Connects app, available for download from Google Play or the App Store, allows visitors to access Dia’s collections and exhibitions onsite and offsite through photo, audio and video features. The guide features all eleven sites and locations, offering insights into Dia's constellation of sites across the US and Germany. The first h ..read more

In December 2021, the singer RM visited Dia Beacon for the first time. He recently released his first solo album, Indigo, and inspired by what he experienced in our galleries last year, RM approached Dia about shooting a live performance video in front of some of his favorite artists in our collection. After his performance, we sat down with RM to talk about the impact Dia Beacon had on him, and why it was his dream to shoot his video in our galleries.  To learn more about the Dia artists that had an impact on RM, visit our blog. Dia Beacon is open Friday–Monday, 10 am–4 pm. Advanced re ..read more

In December of last year, the singer RM visited Dia Beacon, posting both pictures of the train ride in from the city, and various artists in our collection on his Instagram. His personal interest in art has been well documented in recent years, as has his role as an arts supporter who is consistently introducing a global audience to art. Recently he released his first solo album, and he approached Dia asking to shoot in our galleries. We are excited to partner with RM, and if you’re curious about the artists he featured in his live performance video, we’ve put together this short tour highligh ..read more

Reflections on Workshop 5: Transformation Body with angel shanel edwards and Selomé Samuel: Lexicon requires embodied transformation to move beyond decorative landscapes. Words as tools and bodies as vehicles are helpful in grounding new ways of being beyond societal and early life conditioning and development. The goal of this workshop was to be in the experience of feeling the body as a means to strengthen and connect the feeling to vocalization pipelines as well as the embodiment of values. What does it look and feel like when our values run through our systems, and how does that syste ..read more

Reflections on Workshop 4: Cripping Care with Mae Eskenazi:  Crip care, love, and relationships in museums is groundbreaking—it is how we make our aliveness known to each other. Brilliance, creativity, and tenderness are words Mae Eskenazi used to describe their interactions with me and my work as it relates to my Dreaming Care into Being Experiential Learning Series hosted by Dia Art Foundation. The vulnerability, meaning-making, and world-building that happened in these workshops moved things in people’s lives that are still finding their way to be named. Mae’s offerings to Amer ..read more

Reflections on Workshop 3: Consenting Constellations with Meenadchi:  Family constellation work requires deep attunement to play, collective responsibility, and listening. Consent is an embedded practice in family constellation work as the facilitator must deeply question, listen, and respond to the seeker’s embodied consent throughout the constellation. We began last week’s constellation with a mini constellation around medicine I was seeking in regard to parenting my dog Charlie, as it relates to roles, domination, and behavioral outcomes. I noted that I have a challenging relati ..read more