Featuring a textured cover, silver foil-stamped type and interior
maps, this affordable and elegant guidebook maps out Dia's 11 global
locations for international art lovers
Released with the reopening of Dia Chelsea in New York, this handy
guidebook maps Dia Art Foundation's constellation of 11 art spaces
across the globe. Designed with art lovers and dedicated art tourists in
mind, the book charts the institution's bold history and experimental
present.
Widely known for Dia Beacon, a destination museum in the Hudson Valley,
Dia is the steward for seven dedicated artist sites and maintains four
nontraditional exhibition spaces. The artist sites--iconic,
site-specific artworks installed in places as disparate as Walter De
Maria's SoHo New York Earth Room to Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty
in the Great Salt Lake Basin--attest to Dia's deep support of such
artists as Robert Smithson, Nancy Holt, and Walter De Maria.
The book addresses the origins and ongoing significance of these
visionary permanent artworks and exhibition spaces and is supplemented
with writings by artists with site-specific works in the collection,
such as Joseph Beuys, Walter De Maria, Nancy Holt, Max Neuhaus and
Robert Smithson, as well as maps and a time line.
