Full reviews will tell you all about Dia:Beacon, starting with my first visit the summer of Dia's opening, in 2003, and my return in 2014 for a retrospective of Carl Andre and in 2015 for "Excursus: Homage to the Square 3," an installation by Robert Irwin. Robert otherwise stated the photos are mine. With Richard Serra, the collection includes freestanding work and tarred walls, large and small.īoth are early, with gesture and even text, but the collection has at least three more rooms of Robert Ryman, including seemingly polished surfaces and visible means of support. Just so you know, you are seeing just one of six mirror surfaces by Gerhard Richter, reflecting two others reflecting, in turn, the room. John Chamberlain, Louise Bourgeois, and Robert Smithson all carry a threat, Smithson in shattered glass for an indoor earthwork, but only one of these is alive. The DIA Foundation also has collected artwork from several noted contemporary artists including Sol LeWitt, Dan Flavin, and John Chamberlain. Could the likes of Dan Flavin and Sol LeWitt, too, be as hard to pin down? While forever linked to Minimalism or to landscape, Agnes Martin still thought of herself as an Abstract Expressionist. Here Robert Irwin reconceives an April 1998 installation at the late and dearly lamented Dia:Chelsea. If you visit another time, you will see only some of the same art, from a remarkable collection of late Modernism. The former Nabisco box printing factory opened to the public in May 2003 as the Reggio Galleries of Dia:Beacon, following Robert Irwin's plans for the conversion and landscaping. Let me share with you selected additional images from Dia:Beacon. In New York City Dia:Beacon: A Visual Tour
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