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This week, Dia Chelsea reopens to the public after a two-year and reportedly $20 million renovation. Designed by Architecture Research Office (ARO), the 32,500-square-foot site combines three contiguous buildings on West 22nd Street into a space that encompasses 20,000 square feet for exhibitions, a “talk space” for public and educational programming, and Dia’s bookstore.
Dia has long had a footprint in that area, opening its first Chelsea outpost in 1987; several years before commercial galleries did the same. At the time, it represented a decisive break from the white-box SoHo exhibition space, embracing instead the brick, steel, and general grit of a neighborhood primarily known for its warehouses and auto-repair shops. The new Dia Chelsea rekindles some of that old roughness, says curator Alexis Lowry. “I’m a biased judge, but I think the architects have done a really, really beautiful job of essential
A celebration of Black artists and revolutionaries, Ephraim Asili s debut feature was inspired by Godard s La Chinoise.
Ephraim Asili calls his first feature-length film a remix of
La Chinoise, Jean-Luc Godard s 1967 mélange of Maoist politics among idealistic young Parisians. With energy and wit, he achieves his goal of creating a critique and an homage at the same time, but you don t need to be familiar with the earlier work to appreciate
The Inheritance. It stands solidly on its own as a dynamic inquiry into revolutionary culture and Black identity, not to mention the challenge of living with roommates.