Dia Art Foundation

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Dia Art Foundation is committed to advancing, realizing, and preserving the vision of artists. Dia fulfills its mission by commissioning single artist projects, organizing exhibitions, realizing site-specific installations, and collecting in-depth the work of a focused group of artists of the 1960s and 1970s.

Dia was founded in New York City in 1974 by Philippa de Menil, Heiner Friedrich, and Helen Winkler to help artists achieve visionary projects that might not otherwise be realized because of scale or scope. To suggest the institution’s role in enabling such ambitions, they selected the name “Dia,” taken from the Greek word meaning "through."

Today, Dia is a constellation of sites, from the iconic permanent, site-specific artworks and installations in New York, the American West and Germany; to an exhibition program that has commissioned dozens of breakthrough projects; to the vast galleries of Dia:Beacon; and finally the programs of education and public engagement.

Source: Dia Foundation website (https://www.diaart.org/about/about-dia)
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creatorOf Dia Art Foundation. Institutional file. Brooklyn Museum Libraries & Archives
referencedIn Holzer, Jenny, 1950-. Laments : video recording, 1989. Stanford University. Department of Special Collections and University Archives
referencedIn Dia:Beacon Getty Research Institute
Yvonne Rainer papers, 1871-2013 (bulk 1959-2013) Getty Research Institute
referencedIn Video organization file : Dia Art Foundation : miscellaneous uncataloged material. Museum of Modern Art (MOMA)
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associatedWith Bourgeois, Louise, 1911-2010 person
associatedWith Chamberlain, John, 1927-2011 person
associatedWith De Maria, Walter, 1935-2013 person
hierarchical-parent Dia Center for the Arts (New York, N.Y.) corporateBody
associatedWith Flavin, Dan, 1933-1996 person
associatedWith Graham, Dan, 1942- person
associatedWith Holzer, Jenny, 1950- person
associatedWith Kawara, On person
associatedWith Nauman, Bruce, 1941-.... person
associatedWith Neuhaus, Max person
associatedWith Sandback, Fred, 1943-2003 person
associatedWith Serra, Richard, 1939-.... person
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