Dia Art Foundation - Broken Kilometer
Worth a stop·SoHo, Manhattan·I’d go back
Like the Earth Room: a big room of cylinders. Don’t really know why.
What it is
Walter De Maria’s permanent installation of 500 brass rods on the floor of a SoHo loft.
Pair it with
Worth a detour or better, within a 15-minute walk. Numbers match the map.
- 1Drawing Center0.1 mi · Free
Large collection of drawings, all modern.
- 2American Numismatic Society (ANS)0.2 mi · $50
Never saw the gallery; talked to a curator for 90 minutes about Roman Republic coinage.
- 3Renee and Chaim Gross Foundation0.3 mi · $15
Massive collection of Chaim Gross sculptures plus his collection of art from well-known artists.
- 4Museum of Chinese in America0.4 mi · Free
Solid permanent exhibit on Chinese immigration to America.
- 5Museum of Street Art0.5 mi · Free
Take the elevator to the 20th floor of a hotel and walk down 20 flights; the stairwell is the museum.
- 6Grey Art Museum0.6 mi · Free
Fantastic and shockingly large modern art collection for a museum no one’s heard of.
Also on the block, if you have time
Leslie-Lohman Museum (0.2 mi), Dia Art Foundation - New York Earth Room (0.2 mi, free), Terrain Gallery (0.2 mi, free), Jackie Robinson Museum (0.3 mi), Banksy Museum in NYC (0.3 mi).
Skip NYC Fire Museum (0.3 mi), even if you’re passing: “Felt like donated junk. Old engines were neat but no context; would’ve loved a timeline of innovations.”