A couple Mondays ago, I enjoyed a staycation by visiting Dia: Beacon, "a must-see spot on the contemporary-art circuit" located in Beacon, New York, approximately an 80 minute Metro-North train ride from Grand Central.
Walking over from the train station, we passed this sign. Beacon Day!
Dia: Beacon!
The weather was perfect this day.
Surrounding perfectly shaped trees.
A pose.
Pre-jump.
Lame jump.
John Chamberlain's intricately disordered sculptures made from crushed auto parts.
On Kawara obsessive compulsive date paintings.
Michael Heizer, "Negative Megalith No. 5" was one of my favorite pieces. The effect of turning a corner and abruptly encountering a large boulder embedded in the gallery wall was dazzling.
Robert Smithson's organic piles.
More Smithson.
Dan Flavin's light installations.
More Flavin.
This photo does not do any justice to the level of intricacy in the pieces by Sol LeWitt.
Louise Bourgeois's creepy "Spider."
Yay to running around inside Richard Serra's steel installations.
This Met pin amused me.
Lastly, BACON.
Scenic train ride back to the City.