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IN A FORMER FACTORY, SPACE MEETS ART IN SUPERB CONVERGENCE
From: The Boston Globe
Date: 20030803
Author:Robert Campbell, Globe Correspondent
BEACON, N.Y. - "A good critic is one who describes his adventures among masterpieces," said the French writer Anatole France.
Masterpieces don't come along very often in architecture. Architecture is complicated. Many people and many issues are involved in creating a building. Too many things can go wrong.
But now and then, the miracle happens. It's happened again, here in this former industrial town on the banks of the Hudson River. The new Dia:Beacon art museum, which opened this spring, is an architectural masterpiece.
Nobody who walks in the front door of this museum is likely ever to ...
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