Dia Art Foundation announces free admission in NYC and Dia:Chelsea 2020 inaugural program
(Artdaily.org)

Dia Art Foundation announced today that it will offer free admission across its five existing New York City sites starting September 2020 to coincide with the reopening of Dia:Chelsea. Free admission will extend to all six sites when the new Dia:SoHo space opens in Fall 2022. Fostering increased accessibility and engagement, the initiative advances Dia’s founding mission to provide audiences with opportunities for meaningful and durational experiences with art. This move also builds on the nonprofit’s long history of embracing free admission at its permanent artist sites throughout the city, including Walter De Maria’s renowned The New York Earth Room (1977) and The Broken Kilometer (1979) in SoHo; Joseph Beuys’s 7000 Eichen (7000 Oaks), inaugurated at Documenta in 1982 and now on view in Chelsea; and Max Neuhaus’s sound installation Times Square (1977) in Midtown, all of which have been free to the public s