When the Dia Art Foundation was started in 1974 as a means to enable artists to execute projects regardless of scale or scope, the founders chose the word dia from the Greek for “through.” Forty-one years later, this same spirit of facilitating creative visionaries—that has included La Monte Young, Dan Flavin, John Chamberlain, and Donald Judd—continued to thrive at the institution’s Fall Night on Sunday evening. (Dia operates two museums in Chelsea and Beacon, New York, as well as site-specific works in locations including Utah, New Mexico, and Germany.)

The event honored the legendary monochromatic artist Robert Ryman, whose exhibit at Dia:Chelsea (opening December 9) will be his first major solo museum show in New York City in more than 20 years. During dinner, Ryman was toasted by his son, Will Ryman, also a celebrated artist of the sculptor variety, who told a hilarious story of adding his own touch to one of his father’s paintings at age 9: a mischievous dash of Wite-Out. This mild debasement was almost immediately noticed by the elder Ryman, whose reaction was not anger, but to teach his son how to be an artist.

Zachary Quinto and Miles McMillan—a power couple whose domain extends across the film, fashion, and art scene—took in the atmosphere, with artists like Urs Fischer, Brice Marden, and Roni Horn tables away. “I love minimalist art. I think you get lost in it, and there’s a meditative element,” said Dia Art Foundation board of trustees chairman Nathalie de Gunzburg, radiant in an emerald green Balmain jumpsuit. Indeed, the fashion on hand at the gala hardly disappointed. Jessica Joffe wore a particularly au courant dusty pink, floral Gucci pantsuit, and Dia trustee Marissa Sackler donned a black Céline tuxedo dress.

Guests dined on season-appropriate sunchoke bisque garnished with pickled dates and arctic char resting on chestnut puree for the main. (Dessert was served in the cocktail room with many goodies to choose from, including miniature pumpkin and butterscotch cream puffs.) Altogether, an elegant night that brought to the same room creative professionals from many fields—to eat, drink, and plan that trip back up to Dia:Beacon together before fall’s end.

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