CAN MINIMALISM REVITALIZE THE HUDSON RIVER VALLEY?

The civic and business movers and shakers of the Hudson River Valley have staked a lot on Dia:Beacon, Peter Plagens notes in Newsweek. The museum is the latest in a recent series of schemes to revitalize depressed areas via infusions of cultural tourism. But, Plagens worries, Dia:Beacon’s austere minimalism may have trouble attracting the number of visitors necessary to sustain the kind of economic growth that people in and around Beacon are expecting.