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Irwin has worked on landscape and architecture in a more traditional sense before as well. Think of what Ilya Kabakov calls The Empty Museum. They resemble the early video art of another Californian, Paul Kos. Robert Irwin, who planned the site's conversion, built his reputation in California, with clear skies and all but empty installations. In their casual, strictly black uniforms, they could be waiting tables at a downtown club. Dia's employees look younger, of course, than most prison guards. One could almost have entered yet another feature of the nearby towns, a prison. One never revels in water, land, and sky. Do not, however, expect the view from Beacon to resemble the photograph here, taken from the air.Īt Dia the river lies safely and carefully hidden-behind trees, the train tracks, a blank façade, and a garden accessible only from within. It may sit on a hill, only a five-minute walk from the station. Then again, at Dia:Beacon, one sees none of that. As if to complete a portrait of late twentieth-century America, the former Nabisco box-printing plant could stand for its vanished workers. ( Hint: grab a left-hand window seat at Grand Central Station.) A slightly older crowd drives over from the nearby suburbs. One has almost an hour and a half to study them, too, as the train follows the Hudson. On a damp spring day, clouds clung to the mountaintops, the mist dropping from the summits in wisps. On a hot summer afternoon, the hazy sunlight and gently rounded hills around Beacon look straight out of Sanford Robinson Gifford. Church built his private castle, as a quirky monument to the Hudson River School. On the way up from New York, one passes not far from the Storm King Arts Center, with its breathtaking view of the Hudson Valley some distance past Hudson Valley MOCA, and its sculpture from such heirs of Abstract Expressionism as David Smith and Mark di Suvero. The Beacon site alone declares America's greatness in a broader world of art. Thankfully, return of Dia:Chelsea will return in 2021. It helps visitors, too, regain the courage to talk back. Fortunately, the art in Beacon often as not refuses to cooperate with its own deification. With Minimalism, the art object always crosses the boundary between the work and the world.ĭia's manifesto, then, makes for a thrilling collection, but also for some serious special pleading. When Minimalism goes on display, those two terms get scrambled yet again. Whenever a private collection becomes a museum, one expects a loaded mix of public and private. It looks great even in the hands of me as photographer, in an accompanying visual tour.īut was Minimalism ever that grand or that pure? Besides, collectors and museum institutions can hardly help making art's purity look suspect. Call it Minimalism, if one dares, but do not call it minimal, provincial, or small. It still matters, Dia says, and no one who sees it can turn away. This art, Dia declares, has lasted half a century. Above all, however, it serves as a manifesto. Here art too extravagant even for New York can at last find a home. The Part-Time Gallery Attendant enforces rules and regulations as necessary to assist visitors and protect the collection.Dia:Beacon serves as a private foundation, a fabulous museum entirely for late Modernism, a day trip along the very source of American art, and an enclave.
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The position requires teamwork and knowledge of Dia:Beacon’s collection as well as Dia Art Foundation’s history, mission, and sites. The Part-Time Gallery Attendant is responsible for providing a positive, professional, and safe environment for Dia:Beacon visitors to explore the collection. This is a year-round position, but the work hours will fluctuate seasonally based on the museum’s hours of operation. Occupying a former box-printing factory on the banks of the Hudson River, the contemporary art museum spans nearly 300,000 square feet and welcomes more than 100,000 visitors a year.ĭia:Beacon seeks a part-time Gallery Attendant to work 3–4 days a week including weekends and most holidays. Located in Beacon, New York, Dia:Beacon presents Dia Art Foundation’s renowned collection of art from the 1960s to the present as well as special exhibitions, new commissions, and public programs.