LEONARD RIGGIO ON DIA:BEACON

Leonard Riggio, chairman of Barnes & Noble, is an increasingly visible collector and supporter of art: He is, most notably, the principal funder of Dia:Beacon. In Publishers Weekly, Riggio discusses Dia’s new upstate outpost, as well as his feeling that there is a parallel between the achievements of the museum’s artists and his own career in business: “There is no question that [those artists] were intelligent, confident, determined, and they broke the mold. . . . They didn’t just copy. They created. So, I mean there are some parallels, I guess, to what I’ve done.”