posted November 24, 2014 #
Over the weekend I had the pleasure of heading upstate a little bit and vising the
Dia:Beacon art gallery. It's actually an old Nabisco factory that's been painstakingly renovated into an art space for large art installations. The building is one of the first (if not
the first) to renovate an old industrial space for contemporary art and they did a helluva job. The rooms are gorgeous. Some of the art certainly dives into that realm of contemporary where you're not quite sure what you're seeing - is this art? Is this a blank canvas? Is everything art? You know, those sort of pretentious questions that turn a lot of people off. Despite that, there are installations from the likes of
Richard Serra,
Dan Flavin or
Michael Heizer that you just aren't going to see in a regular sized room.
Long story short, if you're the type that likes to take day trips while visiting NYC - this is a properly recommended one.
