The Dia Arts Foundation — purveyor of large-scale installation and performance art since the 1970s, starting with seminal arts space The Kitchen — announced this morning its impending plans to return to Manhattan with a major exhibition space at 545 West 22nd Street, on the footprint of a building that Dia has owned since 1992. Also noteworthy: for the first time in its 35-year history, Dia is electing to commission a new building rather than renovate an existing one. Now this is exciting news, because an avant-garde non-profit with money to burn and a plot of land to build on presents myriad architectural possibilities. After the cut, our shortlist of three favorites for the task at hand.
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Art for the people, by the people. From Christopher Baker’s Murmur Study to Rhizome‘s partnership with the New Museum to new media at Eyebeam, digital art has swiftly gained footing with the internet-savvy creative class. We’ve rounded up three more projects to mull over after the jump.
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Out next week: a big fat book of Daniel Johnston‘s artwork, selected from his personal archives. The volume also includes an interview with the man himself, and commentary from rocker/artist Jad Fair, cartoonist Harvey Pekar, and Important Art World Person Phillip Vergne, new director of the DIA Art Foundation and co-curator of the 2006 Whitney Biennial, which included Johnston’s work.
Artwork ©Daniel Johnston, Rizzoli, 2009. No images may be reproduced in any way, published, or transmitted digitally, without written permission from the publisher.
