Dia Chelsea
535 West 22nd Street | also 533 West 22nd Street | Chelsea | built 1913
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- 1987
Dia opens its Chelsea art center on West 22nd Street, and later moves across the street to this block
Dia began its Chelsea presence in 1987 when the Dia Center for the Arts opened at 548 West 22nd Street. Dia Chelsea later moved across the street into a series of three connected buildings, at 535, 541 and 545 West 22nd Street, now consolidated at 537. They host long-running exhibitions and educational programs.
Source: Wikipedia
- 2005
Dia begins holding its New York public programs on the fifth floor of 535 West 22nd Street
From 2005 until 2019, Dia held its public programs in New York City on the fifth floor of 535 West 22nd Street. The building was later described in Dia's expansion plans as its existing six-story building at No. 535, one of three brick buildings to be joined together.
“The Fifth floor of 535 West 22nd Street begin hosting Dia's public programing in New York City in 2005. These programs continued being hosted here until 2019.”
Source: Wikipedia
- 2011
DC Moore Gallery relocates to 535 West 22nd Street
DC Moore Gallery, founded in 1995, moved from 724 Fifth Avenue to 535 West 22nd Street in Chelsea in 2011, according to its Art Basel gallery profile, which gives this building as the gallery's current location.
Source: artbasel.com
- 2012
Dia announces a 22,000-square-foot Chelsea project space using the ground floor of 535
On May 28, 2012, Dia announced plans for a Chelsea project space of 22,000 square feet that would occupy the ground floor of the six-story building Dia already held at 535 West 22nd Street. The ground floor was to join the newly acquired former Alcamo Marble building at 541 and its former project site at 545. Roger Duffy, a design partner at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, was named as the designer.
Source: flash---art.com
- 2018
Dia launches a $78 million campaign to join its three Chelsea buildings instead of building new
Under director Jessica Morgan, who arrived in 2015, Dia dropped its drive for a new Chelsea museum and chose to join three buildings it already owned. In June 2018 Dia announced a capital campaign of $78 million, which was raised to $90 million in May 2019. At that point the renovated Dia Chelsea was due to reopen in fall 2020.
“Morgan also ended the drive to build a new building in Chelsea and instead focused on joining three buildings the Foundation already owns…”
Source: Wikipedia
- 2021
Dia reopens its Chelsea headquarters after two years away, with a Lucy Raven show
In April 2021 Dia reopened its West 22nd Street headquarters in Chelsea after a two-year absence. The renovation by Architecture Research Office produced a 32,500-square-foot headquarters, with 20,000 square feet of free exhibition and performance rooms at street level. The opening show displayed Lucy Raven's commissioned kinetic light sculptures in the former marble shop, with a film about concrete production shown in a building next door.
Source: wmagazine.com
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