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...Dia Art Foundation, folks think big. Over the past three decades, the foundation has spent millions of dollars commissioning and maintaining art, some of it having dimensions you associate with the Army Corps of Engineers. In the late 1970s, it was Dia that bought artist Donald Judd a derelict, 340-acre Army post in Marfa, Texas. Judd filled it mostly with his rows of concrete, wood or aluminum boxes, the alpha and omega of Minimalist sculpture. It's Dia that in 1977 paid for and still superintends The Lightning Field by Walter De Maria--400 stainless-steel poles arrayed...
...surprise that when the institution's new outpost, Dia: Beacon, opened on Sunday, it was considered the world's largest museum of contemporary art. Five years ago, Dia director Michael Govan went searching for a building to hold some of the foundation's nearly 700 works. In Beacon, N.Y., a struggling Hudson River town, he found an abandoned factory, built in 1929 and used for decades to print boxes for Nabisco crackers. Fifty million dollars later, the structure is nearly 250,000 sq. ft. of sunlit display space. And much of it will be given over to some...
Wamba was born in California in 1971 to Ernest Wamba dia Wamba, a Congolese professor who rose to lead the rebel group Rally for Democracy in his native country...
...agents actually looked at my face and my picture. Agents asked me where I was from and where I was going. I did not feel as though I was being interrogated, as much as I felt I was being engaged in a friendly conversation. Seeing the folks at DIA smiling and thanking passengers has restored my faith in flying. REBECCA HALL Pittsburgh...
...closest the Crimson ever pushed the deficit was to 11 points with five minutes left in the game. But the Terriers’ hot hand responded every time Harvard scored. Argentieri and forward Dia Dufault especially kept stifling Crimson comeback attempts with long-range bombs...