For one painter who is currently a guard at the Dia Center, the job has illuminated how audiences respond to art.

The Dia Center for the Arts received a $200,000 challenge grant for its endowment.

The building will be around the corner from the Dia Center for the Arts in Chelsea.

But this is not the Dia Center for the Arts in Chelsea, an open, bright place.

The Dia Center for the Arts has a certain hauteur.

At the west end you'll find the pioneering Dia Center, occupying two impeccably converted industrial buildings.

Tickets: $25, $15 for students, 65+ and members of the Dia Center (Tommasini).

In 1987 the Dia Center for the Arts opened a block away on West 22d, but then the recession hit.

The show fills a large series of rooms in the Dia Center.

One resource was the Dia Center for the Arts, with its collection of 1960's and 1970's works.