There are eleven locations and sites which the

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considers part of its

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of art museums and long-term installations. Dia breaks its holdings into two distinct categories: locations and sites. "Locations" include

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structures that contain galleries of smaller works either on permanent or temporary display, while "sites" are long-term art installations placed outside of the gallery context that have been either commissioned or acquired by Dia. All three locations are found in

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, while the eight sites are located in New York,

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. Retrieved May 14, 2020. Currently one location, Dia SoHo, is scheduled to be opened in 2022,Freeman, Nate
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. May 7, 2019. Retrieved May 15, 2020. and there are seven sites that were once listed by Dia but are no longer listed. The Dia Art Foundation was established in 1974 in New York City by the not yet married

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heiress Philippa de Menil, as well as

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. They created the institution to help artists realize ambitious projects whose scale and scope is not feasible within the normal museum and gallery systems.Colacello, Bob
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. Vanity Fair. April 30, 2008. Retrieved May 16, 2020. With Friedrich and de Menil's combined large fortune, the foundation began supporting

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artists with, as '' Vanity Fair'' describes in an article, "stipends, studios, assistants, and archivists for the individual museums it planned to build for each of them". Beginning with a collection of warehouse spaces in New York and outdoor spaces in the

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, the foundation did not focus on constructing true museums but focused on singular artistic visions.Goldstein, Andrew
Is It Time for a Land Art Renaissance? Jessica Morgan on Her Ambitious Vision for Dia in New York and Far, Far Beyond
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. May 17, 2019. Retrieved May 16, 2020. This approach changed slightly in 1987 with the opening of Dia's first rotating exhibition space, the Dia Center for the Arts, now Dia Chelsea, on 22nd Street in New York City. Dia Beacon, a former

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box factory turned into a large-scale museum for the permanent collection, opened in 2003. The foundation began by working with and collecting the work of only twelve artists:

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Dan Flavin Dan Flavin (April 1, 1933 – November 29, 1996) was an American minimalist artist famous for creating sculptural objects and installations from commercially available fluorescent light fixtures. Early life and career Daniel Nicholas Flavin ...

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Blinky Palermo Blinky Palermo (2 June 1943 – 18 February 1977) was a German abstract painter. Early life and education Palermo was born Peter Schwarze in Leipzig, Germany, in 1943, and adopted as an infant, with his twin brother, Michael, by foster pa ...

Fred Sandback Fred Sandback (August 29, 1943 – June 23, 2003) was an American minimalist conceptual-based sculptor known for his yarn sculptures, drawings, and prints. His estate is represented by David Zwirner, New York. Life and work Frederick Lane Sandb ...

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‘There Were Women Working Then, Too’: How Dia Director Jessica Morgan Is Breaking Open the (Male) Canon of Postwar Art
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. May 15, 2019. Retrieved May 17, 2020. To this day the foundation owns works by less than 50 artists, but contains a breadth and depth of their work in a way other institutions do not have the resources to maintain. Dia Director

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explains the relationship between Dia and its artists as, "I wouldn't use the word 'family', but these are people we're in communication with almost on a weekly basis, and in some cases we hold the vast majority of their seminal work". Known for its focus on American male minimalist, experimental, and land artists from the 1960s and 1970s, Dia's focus has been changing to include other artists from the era, largely women and Japanese artists, since Morgan became curator in 2015. This gradual refocus is markedly seen in the 2018 acquisition of '' Sun Tunnels'' by

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, Dia's most recent addition to their list of sites.

Locations

Dia maintains three locations all within

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. These locations present galleries of work, either owned by or loaned to Dia, in temporary or permanent installations. Dia Chelsea, the first Dia location, was known as the Dia Center for the Arts from its opening in 1987 through the opening of Dia Beacon in 2003.

Sites

Dia lists eight sites in its catalogue. These sites include commissions,

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, long-term

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s not in a gallery context, and site-specific installations. While focused largely in New York City and the American West, there are sites also placed internationally and elsewhere in the United States. The first sites were a trio of acquisitions and commissions by

in 1977 and the most recently collected site is '' Sun Tunnels'' by

acquired in 2018. ;

Former sites

There are multiple Dia sites, or long term installations, that were once listed in Dia publications or press releases but are no longer categorized as such. These sites were not necessarily removed from view, for instance The Dan Flavin Art Institute became part of Dia Bridgehampton and Dan Flavin's ''Untitled (to you, Heiner, with admiration and affection)'' was moved from

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to Dia Beacon.Cascone, Sarah
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. May 10, 2016. Retrieved June 22, 2020.

Future locations

Dia has one new location planned. By renovating a retail space in the

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section of New York City which Dia already owns, a fourth location will be added to Dia's portfolio in 2022.

Affiliates

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Alongside the 11 locations and sites Dia manages, they also maintain relationships with 6 affiliate institutions. Dia collaborated and supported these institutions, either financially or by donating or sharing of artworks, early in each origination's development. Two of the affiliates, ''

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and ''

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, while being partially funded and supported by Dia since the 70's, are still not completed.

Locations

Sites

Former sites

Future locations

Affiliates

Notes

References

External links