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Case Study: DIA Center for the Arts
Beckelman+Capalino have been engaged as consultants to DIA providing strategic advice related to real estate development and fundraising.
The word “Dia”— taken from the Greek term meaning “through”—suggests Dia Art Foundation’s ongoing role as a conduit and facilitator of exceptional artistic endeavors. Perhaps the most notable aspect of Dia’s mission is its dedication to individual artists, which has made the creation of many significant works possible. Through its collections, exhibitions, and educational and public programs, Dia aims to make the art of our time accessible to the widest possible audience.
Dia was founded in 1974 to support ambitious and innovative artists whose works exceeded the scope of traditional museums and galleries. Dia initiates, presents, and preserves extraordinary, long-term art projects, and collects in-depth the art of some of the most renowned artists of the last half-century. Dia presents its collection of works from the 60s to the present at Dia:Beacon in Beacon, New York in a 300,000 square foot former Nabisco box-printing factory on the Hudson river. As well, Dia presents long-term, site-specific projects in the western United States, New York City, and Long Island.
Dia currently presents a variety of artworks and public programs in New York City. Artists on Artists Lectures, held eight times per year in Dia's space in chelsea, invite artists to share their thoughts about the work of artists in Dia’s collection in a public forum. Dia's three permanent installations—Walter De Maria’s 'The New York Earth Room' (1977) and 'The Broken Kilometer' (1979) and Max Neuhaus’s Time Square (1977/2002) —in addition to its contemporary exhibition program in Chelsea (1986-2004) have made Dia a longtime figure in New York City’s contemporary art world. While Dia develops a new permanent location for its contemporary exhibitions and public programs in New York City, it will present an interim program in collaboration with the Hispanic Society of America in upper Manhattan (HSA), to be initiated in fall 2007.
The New York Times - June 24, 2008
Dia Art Foundation Names a Curator as Its Next Director