Visitors to James Turrell’s monumental light installation currently on view at the Guggenheim Museum probably noticed that Frank Lloyd Wright’s famous rotunda has been completely transformed. Rather ...
Now entering his seventh decade of visionary artmaking, James Turrell is still finding new ways to transform light and space into immersive sensory experiences. Born in Los Angeles in 1943, James ...
"In this 'Skyspace,' the day has weight, the evening has temperature, and the change belongs to you," Turrell says.
Artist James Turrell, who has more public installations in Houston than in any other U.S. city, on Monday received the 2013 National Medal of Arts from President Obama during a White House ceremony.
Acclaimed light artist James Turrell will open The Return at Pace Gallery in Seoul, on view from June 14 through September 27. The exhibition will feature recent and never-before-seen light ...
Light and Space luminary James Turrell has revealed plans for a monumental land artwork in the desert of AlUla, Saudi Arabia. Ahead of his commission for Wadi AlFann – an open-air museum whose title ...
Turrell's Wadi AlFann commission will consist of a large-scale installation of chambers within the canyon, accessible through tunnels and stairs. The artist draws parallels between the sandstone ...
"Published on the occasion of the exhibition 'Aisthesis--The origin of sensations: Robert Irwin and James Turrell at Villa Panza, ' organized by Michael Govan and Anna Bernardini, on view from ...
A writer returns to his native Australian island, where seeing the aurora takes more work than in the north, home of mass-market lights tourism. But the awe is the same. By Ben Buckland The artist is ...
Light has always been the subject of art, says Turrell, who recalls his Quaker grandmother telling him, “Go inside and greet the light.” Paintings, he says, whether Rembrandt’s somber interiors or ...