About Dia Publications
Publications are an essential part of Dia’s mission to champion and advance contemporary art. The publishing program includes an array of monographs, exhibition and collection catalogues, artist’s books, poetry volumes, readers on contemporary culture and critical theory, and music and sound art on vinyl and CD. In fall 2022 and spring 2023, Dia is releasing six new titles as well as presenting the second season of its new interdisciplinary public program series Poetry &.
Recent releases
Carl Craig: Party/After-Party
2-disc vinyl box set, 136 USD
Release date: September 13, 2022
Published by Dia Art Foundation, distributed by Planet E
Composition by Carl Craig and liner notes by DeForrest Brown Jr., Randy Gibson, Kelly Kivland, and Peter L’Official
Carl Craig’s Party/After-Party (2020) lives on past the sound installation at Dia Beacon through this two-disc vinyl set. The album includes studio versions of the artist’s commission and recordings made at Dia Beacon that highlight the acoustics of the space. The LPs are supplemented by a sixteen-page booklet of liner notes.
Camille Norment: Plexus
Softcover, 120 pages, 40 USD
Publication date: October 15, 2022
Published by Dia Art Foundation, distributed by Artbook | DAP
Edited by Kelly Kivland and Sophia Larigakis, with texts by Fred Moten, Camille Norment, Legacy Russell, and David Toop, and conversation between Kivland and Norment
Throughout her career, multimedia artist Camille Norment has explored what she terms “cultural psychoacoustics,” focusing on the sociocultural valences of three tones: the bell, feedback, and the sine wave. Building on the titular exhibition at Dia Chelsea, Camille Norment: Plexus, the first US publication on the artist, unpacks these sonic phenomena.
Coming soon
Remix Ready Mix
By Deantoni Parks and Lucy Raven
Vinyl, 40 USD
Release date: November 2, 2022
Published by Dia Art Foundation
Remix Ready Mix reimagines the soundtrack to artist Lucy Raven’s immersive film installation Ready Mix (2021), commissioned to inaugurate the new Dia Chelsea exhibition space in New York. Created in collaboration with the composer Deantoni Parks, Remix Ready Mix merges field recordings from a concrete and gravel plant in central Idaho with nonsynchronous sound arrangements.
Chryssa & New York
Hardcover, 184 pages, 50 USD
Publication date: March 2023
Published by Dia Art Foundation and the Menil Collection, Houston, distributed by Yale University Press
Edited by Megan Holly Witko, Sophia Larigakis, and Michelle White, with essays by Jonathan Katz, Kalliopi Minioudaki, Tina Rivers Ryan, and White; reflections by Lisa Cohen and Tiona Nekkia McClodden; conversation between Joy Bloser and Matt Dilling; and chronology by Holly Witko
Chryssa & New York offers a timely reassessment of the Greek-born artist Chryssa and accompanies a survey exhibition co-organized by Dia Art Foundation and the Menil Collection, Houston. Focusing on the artist’s early career, in particular her time in New York from the 1950s to the 1970s, this exhibition catalogue charts the emergence of her singular aesthetic, especially her formal innovations with neon, and culminates in the development of her monumental and rarely seen installation The Gates to Times Square (1964–66).
Jack Whitten: The Greek Alphabet Paintings
Hardcover, 212 pages, 65 USD
Publication date: April 2023
Published by Dia Art Foundation, distributed by Artbook | DAP
Edited by Donna De Salvo, Matilde Guidelli-Guidi, and Deirdre O’Dwyer, with essays by Gregg Bordowitz, De Salvo, Guidelli-Guidi, Courtney J. Martin, and Fred Moten, and documentation from Jack Whitten’s personal archive
The first publication to delve deeply into Jack Whitten’s Greek Alphabet paintings (1975–78), this volume highlights this remarkable series, which consists of variations on abstract, black-and-white compositions as a concept- and process-based experiment that marked a juncture in the artist’s painting practice. In this unprecedented publication, the Greek Alphabet works are illuminated through art-historical essays and poetic reflections as well as never-before-published writings by Whitten.
Joan Jonas: next move in a mirror world
Hardcover, 192 pages, 55 USD
Publication date: April 2023
Published by Dia Art Foundation, distributed by Artbook | DAP
Edited by Barbara Clausen, Kelly Kivland, and Kristin Poor, with an introduction by Clausen; essays by Clausen, Adrienne Edwards, André Lepecki, Poor, and Jeannine Tang; interview with Douglas Crimp; writings by Joan Jonas; conversation between Heather Davis, Jonas, and Zoe Todd; and coda by Kivland.
Published in conjunction with the first major US museum show of Joan Jonas’s art in nearly fifteen years, this monograph features new scholarship on her multimedia installations and performance practice from the early 1970s to the present. Richly illustrated, with never-before-published sketches and drawings, the volume includes an interview with the late Douglas Crimp and Jonas’s personal reflection on their enduring friendship.
For more information about other new titles such as La Monte Young’s Trio for Strings (LP box set) and Carla Lonzi’s Self-Portrait as well as our renowned collection of vintage artist publications, visit Dia's bookshop.
Literary programs at Dia
Poetry &
Building on more than 35 years of poetry programs at Dia, Poetry & pairs a poet with an artist working in a different genre to create a unique art experience. Curated by Kamilah N. Foreman and José Olivarez, this interdisciplinary series manifests the vitality of one of the oldest art forms in full-fledged interactive, performative events in Dia’s galleries and event spaces as well as out in the streets.
Jon Sands and Riley Mulherkar
Saturday, October 29, 6pm
Dia Chelsea
Anaïs Duplan and Noelle de la Paz
Sunday, January 30, 2023, time to be confirmed
Dia Beacon
Worker Writers School
April and May 2023
Dia Chelsea and New York City location
