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In the Light of Minimalism
John Haberin New York City
Dia:Beacon: A Visual Tour
Let me share with you selected additional images from Dia:Beacon. Enjoy!
Getting and Being There
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. If you visit another time, you will see only some of the same art, from a remarkable collection of late Modernism.
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A Maze of Light
Here Robert Irwin reconceives an April 1998 installation at the late and dearly lamented Dia:Chelsea (and Keith Sonnier with his installations is coming in late 2024).
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Grids Within Grids of Light
While forever linked to Minimalism or to landscape, Agnes Martin still thought of herself as an Abstract Expressionist. Could the likes of Dan Flavin and Sol LeWitt, too, be as hard to pin down?
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Creature Discomforts
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.
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Tight and Mirrored Spaces
Just so you know, you are seeing just one of six mirror surfaces by Gerhard Richter, reflecting two others reflecting, in turn, the room. With Richard Serra, the collection includes freestanding work and tarred walls, large and small.
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White and Everything Else
Both 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.
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Unless otherwise stated the photos are mine. 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 Square3," an installation by Robert Irwin.