The Amtrak ride along the Hudson is so dreamy especially as you head south on the river side of the train. It perfectly set the stage for our stop in Beacon where the DIA has enshrined major works by an all star cast of big thinking, modern (post 1960) artists. Joseph Beuys, John Chamberlain, Walter De Maria, Dan Flavin, Donald Judd, Blinky Palermo, Cy Twombly, Andy Warhol, Louise Bourgeois, Michael Heizer, Sol LeWitt, Agnes Martin, Bruce Nauman, Robert Ryman, Gerhard Richter, Richard Serra, and the earth artist maestro, Robert Smithson. But the biggest star of all could be Robert Irwin who designed a plan that would retain the original character of the former Nabisco box factory while accommodating its twenty-first century museum function. The place is a marvel, a theater with dramatic visual acoustics.
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