Dia 2.0: Facing the Future Jessica Morgan moves the art foundation beyond the sometimes swaggering heart of its Minimalist collection. Dan Flavin, “the diagonal of May 25, 1963 (to Constantin Brancusi),” a fluorescent light work at the newly renovated Dia Chelsea.Credit...Stephen Flavin/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York; Elizabeth Felicella April 23, 2021, 5:00 a.m. ET In 1988, the Dia Art Foundation hosted one of the most momentous readings in postwar art history — the reclusive poet James Schuyler appeared before an audience for the first time in memory, occasioning a line down Mercer Street to the foundation’s SoHo headquarters. One particularly lovely turn in Schuyler’s poem “Empathy and New Year” elicited a hum of admiration from the crowd: “Not knowing a name for something proves nothing.”