Article: Art blooms in Beacon. (Art World).(Dia Art Foundation new gallery in Beacon, New York)

On May 18, the Dia Art Foundation opens its vast new facility in a converted printing plant on a 31acre site on the banks of the Hudson River [see "Front Page," May '99] in Beacon, N.Y. Located some 60 miles north of Manhattan, Dia:Beacon provides 240,000 square feet of gallery space for Dia's permanent collection, which includes works by such artists as Joseph Beuys, Louise Bourgeois, Walter De Maria, Dan Flavin, Michael Heizer, Donald Judd, Sol LeWitt, Agnes Martin, Bruce Nauman, Gerhard Richter, Richard Serra, Robert Smithson, Andy Warhol and Lawrence Weiner.

Artist Robert Irwin and the New York-based architectural and design firm OpenOffice worked together to ...

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