"Dia:Beacon Riggio Galleries, Dia Art Foundation's museum, presents one of the world's most distinguished collections of contemporary art. The museum, which opened in May 2003, occupies a 300,000-square-foot former industrial building situated on the banks of the Hudson River in Beacon, New York. Here Dia presents a vast range of artworks by a focused group of some of the most significant artists of the last half century."
A selection of images from Dia's permanent collection, including Walter De Maria's Earthroom and Lightning Field, Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty, Richard Serra's Torqued Ellipses, Donald Judd's plywood boxes, as well as images from Dan Flavin, Andy Warhol and Joseph Beuys.
Publication accompanying Dia:Beacon's special exhibition, "Dia's Andy : Through the Lens of Patronage" on view from May 2005 to April 2006. "Dia's Andy," a magazine inspired in part by the design of Interview includes texts by and interviews with Warhol, facsimiles of early reviews of Warhol's works and exhibitions, texts focusing on the work included in the exhibition, and a new essay by art historian Liz Kotz on Warhol's A: A Novel.
