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Article: Dia:Beacon: the imperturbables: with 240,000 square feet of exhibition space, Dia's new Hudson River facility shows off its permanent collection to suitably monumental effect, making the case for its anointed masters from the 1960s forward, presenting their achievement as towering, timeless and unassailable. (Cover Story).(overview of the works of several artists)(Cover Story)
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- Art in America
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- July 1, 2003
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Vast, open, illuminated almost entirely by natural light, Dia:Beacon is monumental in the way of cathedrals, or, in some of its deeply shadowed spaces, certain kinds of funerary architecture. A massive testament to the power of mostly big, abstract art, it is almost always glorious. And it flies in the face of conventions that have come to govern art-making and, even more, museum installation, over the past 10 years and more. "Comparison means nothing!" Dia cofounder Heiner Friedrich recently exclaimed to New Yorker writer Calvin Tomkins. (1) So much for assumptions supporting exercises ranging from the Matisse/Picasso extravaganza at MOMA to the Tate Modern's ...
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