James turrell light installation

For the past 40 years, artist James Turrell has been working on creating his most massive project yet, a largely unseen network of installations built inside a dormant volcano in the Arizona desert. The ambitious land artwork aims to turn the 2.5-mile wide crater into a series of rooms and tunnels...

James Turrell “Aten Reign” 2013, installation view, © James Turrell. Photo: David Heald © Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York

In this recent interview, artist Ólafur Elíasson discusses how he came to be an artist (he first was a break dancer!), how his brain works, and why we should be thinking of art's audience as a group, not an individual.

The Museum will host the exhibition, James Turrell Perspectives, concurrent with the artist’s retrospectives at the Guggenheim Museum, the Museum of Fine

Just off the entry, a signature James Turrell ovoid wall sculpture, animated by shifting, computer-programmed LED lights, greets visitors with a dreamy chromatic display.

James Turrell (b. 1943, Los Angeles) uses light and indeterminate space—not objects or images—to extend and enhance perception. His work has been the subject of over 160 solo exhibitions worldwide since 1967, including the three-venue museum exhib...

A new work by the renowned American artist James Turrell has opened in Lech am Arlberg, a small mountain village and ski resort in Western Austria. The installation is part of a series titled ‘Skyspaces’: autonomous light chambers that are immersive art experiences. Turrell’s ‘Skyspace’ installations began in the 1970s and can today be found […]