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(May 14, 2012 -- New
York, NY) Dia:Beacon hosted its annual spring benefit at
Dia:Beacon, Riggio Galleries in Beacon, New York on
Saturday, May 12, 2012. Dia honored John Chamberlain with
special remarks by fellow artist and long-time friend
Lawrence Weiner. The event also included a performance of
works by choreographer Yvonne Rainer, a luncheon in the
Chamberlin gallery, a children's program, and a gallery tour
of Jean-Luc Moulène's Opus + One, with Dia curator Yasmil
Raymond.
The proceeds raised from the event will support Dia:Beacon's
exhibitions and dynamic public and educational programming.
Select images from the benefit are available upon request.
"This year's benefit was co-chaired by Dia Trustee
Christopher M. Bass, Muriel Brandolini, and Alison Spear. In
addition to Benefit co-chairs, Dia director Philippe Vergne,
Dia chairman Nathalie de Gunzburg and her husband Charles de
Gunzburg attended, along with Dia trustees Frances Bowes,
Virginia Lebermann, and Howard Rachofsky, with wife Cindy,
Marissa Sackler, and Charles Wright.
Philanthropists and art supporters in attendance included:
Susan Almrud, JK Brown and Eric Diefenbach, Eileen and
Michael Cohen, Rebecca and Martin Eisenberg, Rena and Scott
Hoffman, Pamela Joyner Genny and Selmo Nissenbaum, Nancy
Olnick and Giorgio Spanu, Amy and John Phelan, Warrie and
James Price, Kirk and Liz Radke, Alex Reese (husband of
co-chair, Alison Spear), Jonathan and Diana Rose, Michael
Ward Stout, and Peter and Helen Warwick.
Many gallerists were also present, among them Roland J.
Augustine; Douglas Baxter of The Pace Gallery; Gavin Brown,
Hope Atherton, and Elise Overland of Gavin Brown's
enterprise; Peter C. Freeman, Carol Greene and Jeffrey
Rowledge of Greene Naftali; Tina Kim and Jae Chung, Sukanya
Rajaratnamm of L&M, Elizabeth Sadeghi of Greenberg Van Doren
Gallery, Deepak Talwar, Leslie Tonkonow, and Kara Vander Weg
of Gagosian Gallery.
Artists in attendance included Babette Mangolte, Jean-Luc
Moulène, Forrest Myers, Yoko Ono, Mike and Doug Starn,
Lawrence Weiner, Robert Whitman, Ian Wilson, Marian Zazeela,
and La Monte Young, along with poets Lee Ann Brown, Thomas
Fink and Alan Gilbert.
Other notable guests included Architect and designer Rafael
de Cardenas, Grey Area co-founder Manish Vora, Scoop NYC
founder Susan Davidson and Allen Miller, Jewelry designer
James de Givenchy and Gina de Givenchy, John Chamberlains
widow's Prudence Fairweather along with daughters Phoebe and
Alexandra Fairweather, Dia founder Heiner Friedrich,
Interior furnishings store owner Nina Griscom and realtor
Leonel Piraino, Giorgio Armani Senior Vice President Rod
Manley, art advisor Katherine Robinson, Art advisor, blogger,
and personality Adam Shopkorn and Coach USA executive
Carolyn Tate Angel.
Natural beauty company
Aesop created a custom-made travel kit for guests, specially
designed and packaged to honor Dia:Beacon's exhibitions and
programs. Floral arrangements and décor were designed by
Matthew Robbins Design and the event was produced by MF
Productions.
Donations and in-kind contributions were generously been
provided by Aesop and Millbrook Vineyards & Winery, with
additional support from illy caffè.
About Dia Art Foundation
A nonprofit institution founded in 1974, Dia Art Foundation
is renowned for initiating, supporting, presenting, and
preserving art projects. Dia:Beacon, Riggio Galleries,
opened in May 2003 in Beacon, New York, on the banks of the
Hudson River as the home for Dia's distinguished collection
of art from the 1960s to the present. The museum, which
occupies a former Nabisco printing factory, features major
installations of works by a focused group of some of the
most significant artists of the last half century, as well
as special exhibitions, new commissions, and diverse public
and education programs. Dia:Chelsea is located on West 22nd
Street in the heart of New York City's gallery district
which it helped to pioneer. Currently open for artist
lectures and readings, Dia is developing plans to expand its
presence in Chelsea.
Dia also maintains long-term, site-specific projects. These
include Walter De Maria's The New York Earth Room (1977) and
The Broken Kilometer (1979), Max Neuhaus's Times Square
(1977), Joseph Beuys's 7000 Eichen (7000 Oaks) (1988), and
Dan Flavin's untitled (1996), in Manhattan; The Dan Flavin
Art Institute, in Bridgehampton, New York; De Maria's The
Vertical Earth Kilometer (1977), in Kassel, Germany; Robert
Smithson's Spiral Jetty (1970), in the Great Salt Lake,
Utah; and De Maria's The Lightning Field (1977), in Quemado,
New Mexico. For additional public information, visit
www.diaart.org<http://www.diaart.org>.
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