Dia Art Foundation

Dia is another quintessential New York art foundation, with a location in Beacon, New York. The museum’s collection boasts works by 20th century and contemporary artists including Richard Serra, John Chamberlain, and Louise Bourgeois. The upstate gallery is certainly worth a visit although Dia also commissions and maintains a number of impressive art installations across New York, including the The New York Earth Room by Walter de Maria, on view at 141 Wooster Street in SoHo. The artist laid more than 250 cubic metres of pungent soil in a SoHo loft, which you really have to see to understand. De Maria’s Broken Kilometer around the corner (393 West Broadway) places 500 polished brass rods on a wooden floor that, if continual, would measure 3,280 feet. Again, conceptual, but undoubtedly cool. Look out for Joseph Beuys’s 7000 Oaks on West 22nd Street between 10th and 11th Avenues, which plants trees in urban environments.\ndiaart.org