Dia:Beacon
We went to Dia:Beacon to check out the Walter De Maria pieces on display, but also because it might be one of my favorite places. Not only is it full of beautiful contemporary art, but the actual space itself is extraordinary. The building is a converted Nabisco box-printing facility, so it definitely has that industrial charm. But what I love the most about it is the quality of natural light. Everything was so well lit, and it was all so uniform that I rarely had to adjust my settings.
Something that I hadn't seen before was the collection of Serra's study models. There was a very long table in a hallway with maybe 50 steel sheet models of various sizes. What I found most interesting was the footprints you can make out on some of the models. It looks as though Serra used his feet to bend the steel.
The Michael Heizer piece was also open, so this was the first time I got to see it behind the glass. We were able to walk right up to the edges of the voids, and it was really trippy. On our way out, Ebenezer asked the museum attendant if anyone has ever fallen in, but surprisingly no one has.
In the upstairs gallery, there is a little nook of forgotten space that holds no art. But there is an awesome steel plate wall with a huge window casting light onto it, so Ebenezer and I had a little photoshoot in there.
