“Groundbreaking art shines at the extraordinary new Dia:Beacon museum on New York’s Hudson River.”
Smithsonian

Dia:Beacon’s Riggio Galleries are situated on the east bank of the Hudson River in Beacon, New York, and present one of the world’s most distinguished collections of contemporary art. Expansive galleries comprise 240,000 square feet of exhibition space illuminated by natural light. Because of its character or scale, much of the art on view cannot be easily accommodated by more conventional museums. Each gallery is devoted to a single artist, and a number of the installations have been created in collaboration with the artists themselves.

Opened in May 2003 in a former Nabisco box factory characterized by vast spaces and a sawtooth skylight system, the museum presents a broad range of works by some of the most significant artists of the last half-century, including Bernd and Hilla Becher, Joseph Beuys, Louise Bourgeois, John Chamberlain, Hanne Darboven, Walter De Maria, Dan Flavin, Michael Heizer, Donald Judd, On Kawara, Imi Knoebel, Sol LeWitt, Agnes Martin, Bruce Nauman, Blinky Palermo, Gerhard Richter, Robert Ryman, Fred Sandback, Richard Serra, Robert Smithson, Andy Warhol, and Lawrence Weiner. The masterplan for the museum and the gardens were designed by artist Robert Irwin.