Camp Crate Escape

Wandering around Dia: Beacon makes visible certain dichotomies between city and country life. We’re used to seeing art galleries and museums inside cities, and ...we’re used to their small, somewhat cramped confines, so often stocked with the bustling paintings of the contemporary cutting edge. Dia’s upstate space serves as something of an antithesis to that kind of experience. Although more crowded than you’d think, the monolithic works it contains gain an immense deal from their cavernous surroundings (it’s located in an abandoned Nabisco plant). I must admit a prejudice here- when I’ve encountered their more minimalist works at MoMa or elsewhere, artists like Richard Serra and Bruce Nauman didn’t immediately attract me. However, recontextualized upstate, with the benefits of a building specifically redesigned to display their works, I walked away with a whole new appreciation for them. Clothing, of course, is something of an art, and what we value in clothing changes depending on its context. What flies on Wall Street, or in Bushwick, might not have the same impact in Newburgh. READ FULL ARTICLE ----->

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