PRESS RELEASE: Dia Art Foundation Announces Plans for New Space in NYC Nov 7, 2009
In addition, West 22nd Street is identified with three major Dia installations: Joseph Beuys's 7000 Eichen (7000 Oaks), along West 22nd Street between and including 10th and 11th Avenues (1988); Dan Graham's Rooftop Urban Park Project (1991), originally located on the roof of 548 West 22nd Street and to be reinstalled on the roof of Dia's new building; and Dan Flavin's untitled (1996), sited in the stairwells of 548 West 22nd Street ... These include Walter De Maria's The New York Earth Room... (AbsoluteArts.com)
A library of the worlds most unusual compounds, George Pendle, Financial Times Jun 24, 2009
He has created an installation on fluorescence at the Hayward Gallery to tie in with an exhibition by American artist Dan Flavin and will this autumn help the Victoria and Albert Museum launch its new ceramics galleries. Miodownik also invites artists to speak to his materials science students. (Harper's Magazine)
Betty Freeman auction includes Hockney, Warhol Apr 4, 2009
An early financial backer of composers like John Adams and Phillip Glass, she also collected the works of artists including David Hockney, Roy Lichtenstein, Dan Flavin and Andy Warhol. Four months after her death at age 87, Freeman's estate is selling 19 of the contemporary paintings in her collection. (Fresno Bee -- State)
Andrea K. Scott: A new gallery, X, opens in Chelsea. Mar 23, 2009
The Dia Art Foundation has loaned X Dan Flavin s last light sculpture, a site-specific piece from 1996, which fills the stairwell with the matter-of-fact beauty of its blue-and-green glow. PHOTOGRAPH: DEREK JARMAN, EARLY FILMS /COURTESY X INITIATIVE AND JAMES MACKAY Share. (New Yorker)