james turrell

The Walker Art Center’s sculpture park turns over a new leaf

Following a $10 million expansion and the removal of one controversial work of art, an iconic sculpture park in Minneapolis reopens to the community. Much has been said about Los Angeles artist Sam Durant’s large-scale sculpture Scaffold, which collages the architecture of seven hangings...

James Turrell and Schmidt Hammer Lassen collaborate to extend a Danish art museum

When he joined the ARoS museum in Aarhus three years ago, director Erlend Høyersten inherited a landmark building by Danish architecture firm Schmidt Hammer Lassen, topped with a rainbow-glass skywalk by Olafur Eliasson. By any standard, ARoS, – with exhibitions spanning the...

Sky high: Venet Foundation welcomes two iconic installations by James Turrell

A temple of light; a temple of silence. James Turrell’s new installations – collectively grouped under the title ’Inspire the Light’ – at the Venet Foundation are one (well, two) of a kind. Staged in the middle of sumptuous Mediterranean...

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Seeing the light: James Turrell unveils new work at Kayne Griffin Corcoran in LA

To speak of James Turrell’s ’vision’ is almost besides the point. In the artist’s work, our perception is both the singular experience and its transcendence, the ocular sense given back to us in the form of immersion. He has said that...

Pittsburgh’s Mattress Factory invites artists to create room-sized installations

Founded way back in 1977, Pittsburgh’s Mattress Factory is one of the most innovative – and under-appreciated – museums in the US, established by artist Barbara Luderowski in, yes, a one-time mattress factory in the city’s run-down North Side (though...

Light house: James Turrell illuminates the Palladian masterpiece of Norfolk’s Houghton Hall

The American artist James Turrell owns 227 square miles of arid land near northern Arizona’s Painted Desert. He also owns almost 3,000 head of cattle, a few heavy European horses for pulling and lugging and, most significantly, an extinct...

Oslo’s revitalised Ekebergparken opens with a new sculpture trail

Ekebergparken, Oslo’s latest revitalisation effort, is a 64-acre public park that commands a front row seat high above the city, overlooking the harbour entrance, opera house and Astrup Fearnley museum. A historic site with remains from the Stone, Bronze and...