DIA:Beacon

In May 2003, Dia opened Dia:Beacon, Riggio Galleries, a museum to house its renowned but rarely seen permanent collection comprised of major works of art from the 1960s to the present.

Information

Location	3 Beekman Street, Beacon, NY 12508
Directions	Located adjacent to the Beacon train station, which is served by Metro-North Railroad trains from Grand Central Terminal and Poughkeepsie. Trains run hourly in either direction during museum operating hours.
Hours	Nov 14 – Apr 13, 2009: Friday — Monday 11 a.m. — 4 p.m. Closed Tuesday - Thursday
Cost	$7 with college ID
Website	http://www.diabeacon.org
Additional Info	Dia:Beacon provides guided tours every Saturday at 1 p.m. Tours are free with admission.

Current Exhibitions/Lectures

Sol LeWitt: Drawing Series... (September 16, 2006 - November 9, 2010)
Dia’s presentation of wall drawings by Sol LeWitt from the late 1960s through the mid-1970s was selected by the artist himself. It highlights his monumental Drawing Series-Composite, Part I-IV, #1-24, A + B (1968), a four-color rendering of which is executed here for the first time.

Imi Knoebel: 24 Colors-for Blinky, 1977 (Opening April 16, 2010)
Acquired for Dia’s collection shortly after it was realized, this epic cycle marks the artist’s first sustained engagement with color in its manifold guises. Color&emdash;viewed as a gift from his close friend, the German painter Blinky Palermo&emdash;was to become for Knoebel the primary agent in an ongoing exploration of the metaphysics of picture making.

Zoe Leonard: You see I am here after all, 2008 (August 21, 2008 - September 7, 2010)
Zoe Leonard presents a new work comprising several thousand vintage postcards of Niagara Falls, dating from the early 1900s to the 1950s. Rendered stereotypical and generic through repletion over decades, these landscape motifs are emblematic of mass culture’s transformation of natural sites into tourist destinations.



For more information, please visit the DIA website.