Last weekend I went to Dia: Beacon, and it was a wonderful experience. I highly recommend visiting the museum to everyone. Even though the work shown is conceptual, much of it is accessible through the scale of the work, the artist's use of innovative materials, or the way that the piece utilizes negative space. My favorites were Spider, a sculpture by Louise Bourgeois, Michael Heizer's North, East, South, West, and Torqued Ellipse II by Richard Serra. One of the criticisms I recall from the museum's opening press coverage is that New Yorkers will go once and presumably never again. I don't think that's the case, though. I plan to go again soon, and I can't imagine why anyone else wouldn't return. The museum offers the opportunity to see large-scale works that can't be accomodated by traditional gallery spaces, and the long-term exhibitions mean seeing a piece that one is enamored by again and again.
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