On my way back home from Herb’s show in Hudson, NY I decided to stop over in Beacon, NY (down the Hudson) and spend the say at Dia Beacon. Occupying a former Nabisco box warehouse built in 1929, the Dia Beacon has filled the roughly 300,000 square foot space with art from the ’60s on up. Like MASS MoCA, so much space means you’ll see works that won’t fit in your basic building. Even a big building.
Times of the Day, 1974–75
We all have favorites and some of mine include Blink Palermo and Robert Ryman and Dia Beacon has put their rooms right next to each other.
Transfer, 1987
Times of the Day I, 1974–75
The Paradoxical Absolute, 1958
I also happen to love the works of Donald Judd, Richard Serra, Louise Bourgeois, and many of the other artists in the Dia Beacon’s collection. Here are some of them.
Untitled, 1976
untitled, 1970
Union of the Torus and the Sphere, 2001
Crouching Spider, 2003
Colonnata, 1968
Excursus: Homage to the Square, 1998/2015
Domain of the Variable, 1972/2018
6 Gray Mirrors, 2003
Untitled, 1967/2011
Negative Megalith #5, 1998
Raum 19, 1968
Double Torqued Ellipse, 1997 (detail)
Hanged Man, 1985