Beacon, New York

We took a trip with our friends Michelle and Anderson up to Beacon, NY last weekend to try to see some fall foliage and make a long overdue trip to the Dia:Beacon. The leaves weren't really turning yet, but we did see the oddball orange tree here and there on the walk from the museum to Main Street. The town of beacon had a mix of old stores and new knicknack stores. The highlight was the Hudson Beach Glass shop and studio. We watched a woman making a glass tumbler. It looked like a lot of fun, but also a lot of work. We even met the Mayor of Beacon, who was walking around town. We chatted a bit about how Main Street connects two villages, but visitors only walk the half that is closest to the Dia. So if you go there, be sure to walk more than 3 blocks. Unfortunately, we missed the other half of Main Street.



The Dia:Beacon building is massive. Its original use was the box manufacturing factory for Nabisco. mmmm...cookies. My favorite exhibit was the Sol Lewitt series of wall drawings. Their scale matches the building, but their detail is so minute. You can see how the texture of the wallboard changes the line if you look really really close.



The only other pieces that matched the scale of the building were the Richard Serra's. I hadn't seen one that I could walk inside, so that was cool. We snuck a few pictures of the exhibits when the docents weren't watching us like we were going to steal something.



A few more photos in our Flickr set.