Lecture
Donna De Salvo on Walter De Maria
Thursday, February 2, 2023, 7–8pm
Menil Collection, Houston
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Donna De Salvo, curator of special projects at Dia Art Foundation, will discuss the work and career of Walter De Maria in conjunction with the Menil’s exhibition Walter De Maria: Boxes for Meaningless Work, on view through April 23, 2023. Prior to the lecture, a reception will be held from 6 to 7pm in the Menil Bookstore, where copies of Gagosian’s recently published monograph Walter De Maria: The Object, the Action, the Aesthetic Feeling will be available for purchase. The event is free to attend.
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Installation view, Walter De Maria: Boxes for Meaningless Work, Menil Collection, Houston, October 29, 2022–April 23, 2023. Artwork © The Estate of Walter De Maria. Photo: Paul Hester
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Ocean Music
July 25–30, 2023, 12–6pm
Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich
www.pinakothek.de
To mark the tenth anniversary of Walter De Maria’s death, the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich will play Ocean Music (1968), a sound piece in which the artist combined his own recordings of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans with his drum improvisation. The recording will play in the historic Türkentor (Turkish Gate) building, which houses De Maria’s sculpture Large Red Sphere (2002). On Thursday, July 27, the musical presentation will continue until 8pm. The event is free to attend.
Walter De Maria, Large Red Sphere, 2002 © Estate of Walter De Maria. Photo: Haydar Koyupinar
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“Walter De Maria: Boxes for Meaningless Work” featuring Michelle White and Amanda Gluibizzi
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As part of the Brooklyn Rail’s online series New Social Environment, Michelle White, senior curator at the Menil Collection, Houston, joins Amanda Gluibizzi, an art editor at the Rail, for a conversation about the Menil’s current exhibition Walter De Maria: Boxes for Meaningless Work, on view through April 23, 2023. The talk will conclude with a poetry reading.
Installation view, Walter De Maria: Boxes for Meaningless Work, Menil Collection, Houston, October 29, 2022–April 23, 2023. Artwork © The Estate of Walter De Maria. Photo: Paul Hester
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HARD CORE
Monday, September 20, 2021, 6:45pm, and Saturday, September 25, 2021, 4:45pm
Anthology Film Archives, New York
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Walter De Maria’s film HARD CORE (1969) will be screened as part of Karl Precoda Selects, a program to celebrate the publication of Alan Licht’s book of interviews, Common Tones: Selected Interviews with Artists and Musicians 1995–2020. The selected films are directed by or feature artists highlighted in the book, or are discussed by Licht and his interlocutors in the interviews. Musician, filmmaker, and scholar Karl Precoda, one of the interviewees, has selected De Maria’s film, which was shot in the Black Rock desert of northwestern Nevada in the summer of 1969 and which features two pieces of music—Cricket Music (1964) and Ocean Music (1968)—composed, performed, and recorded by the artist. To attend the event, purchase tickets at ticketing.uswest.veezi.com.
Production still for Walter De Maria, HARD CORE, 1969 © 2021 Estate of Walter De Maria. Photo: Jim Farber
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