Sentence examples for dia collection from inspiring English sources

When Michael Govan was chosen by this board in 1994 to be the next director of Dia, its future as a financially stable and creative institution had been well secured and the Dia Collection had become internationally recognized.

Those of us who struggled for 11 years to bring the Dia collection to the New York public are now left with substantial regret at the loss of its mission.

And he certainly didn't know that Govan, who had come to Dia three years before from the Guggenheim, was hellbent on finding a way to build a museum to house the Dia collection.

The possibility that city-owned art in the DIA collection might be sold as part of Detroit's plan to settle an estimated $18bn it owes to bondholders, pensioners and others, continues to be one of the most controversial aspects of the city's bankruptcy plan.

Todd Levin, curator of Another Look at Detroit at the Marlborough Chelsea and Marianne Boesky galleries in New York, calls the plan to sell off the DIA collection "morally and ethically repugnant", one that will do nothing to maintain street lighting and emergency services and much to pay back institutional creditors who, he says, knew the risks when they bought risky municipal bonds in the city.

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The scheme has also had advice from several living artists represented in Dia's collection, including Walter de Maria, Richard Serra, Michael Heizer and John Chamberlain, who have been involved in designing galleries devoted to their works.

"John Chamberlain, Squeezed and Tied: Foam and Paper Sculptures" is a smart, provocative little show sampling the artist's 1960s and 70s urethane-foam and paper sculptures from Dia's collection.

The earliest works in this show are two immense, fuguelike drawings from Dia's collection that line the four walls of the four galleries designed for them and are being shown in their complete form here for the first time.

It needed to be large enough to house some of the larger works in Dia's collection, including Andy Warhol's 430-foot-long series of paintings, which will be housed in its own separate 7,000-square-foot 7,000-square-foot 7,000-square-foot