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James Turrell

March 2021

  • Fertile pastures ... An aerial view of Northumberlandia, near Cramlington.

    10 of the best ...
    From Skyspace to The Scallop: 10 of the best outdoor art works

    Bronze lozenges, Cumbrian moss and a colossal female nude: as restrictions lift, here are the greatest alfresco spectacles

February 2020

  • Still from Steve McQueen’s Static, 2009

    Art Weekly newsletter
    Steve McQueen takes over the Tate and civil rights heads to Margate – the week in art

    The Oscar-winning artist has a major retrospective in London, an American visionary messes with perceptions and a punk artist reaches new heights

January 2019

  • Kanye West.

    Kanye West donates $10m for James Turrell art installation

    Rapper contributes funds to complete long-gestating land art piece in Arizona, having described the work as ‘life-changing’

January 2018

  • Event Horizon, a new work by James Turrell at the Museum of Old and New Art's new wing Pharos which opened in December 2017

    Blinded by the light: James Turrell obliterates the senses in stunning new Mona wing

    Mona owner David Walsh calls his $32m new wing ‘a testimonial to the power of light as art’

November 2015

  • James Turrell Raemar pink

    James Turrell: 'More people have heard of me through Drake than anything else'

    The artist got attention from a new audience thanks to Drake’s Hotline Bling video – but his long career deals with art and life’s most fundamental substance

5 June 2015

  • John Singleton Copley's The Death of Major Peirson, 1781, part of Tate Britain's Fighting History exhibition.

    Art Weekly newsletter
    Vaginas in Versailles, Julian Opie's genius and flying rocks – the week in art

    Anish Kapoor ruffled the feathers of French conservatives, an Oxford museum fights to keep a JMW Turner painting forever, and photographers pick their favourite shots of summer – all in your weekly art dispatch
  • Blur in reflective mode.

    The 10 best things to do this week

    From clubbing in the Glasgow School of Art to apocalyptic comedy in London, here are some of the next seven days’ most interesting cultural activities
  • James Turrell lights up the west facade of Houghton Hall in Norfolk.

    James Turrell at Houghton Hall: a psychedelic legal high in the English countryside

    The artist installation at the grand Norfolk country house is a mind-bending array of colour and light – like a beautifully silent music festival

April 2015

  • James Turrell naked exhibition

    Skinny-dipping in the void: the day I toured James Turrell's art show naked

    A nude tour of the artist’s light sculptures is more than a gimmick, discovers Monica Tan, as she joins the naturists and curious art students in Canberra

December 2014

  • James Turrell in front of Roden Crater at sunset.

    Artist James Turrell: I can make the sky any colour you choose

  • James Turrell's Virtuality squared 2014

    James Turrell: A Retrospective review – light and colour reach for the sublime

October 2013

  • Louise Bourgeois's The Couple

    24-hour arty people: an all-night sculpture park opens in Oslo

  • Oslo's new sculpture park, 2013

    Art with a view: Oslo's new sculpture park – in pictures

November 2010

  • Dhatu by James Turrell; (inset) the Bindu Shards perceptual cell.

    Jonathan Jones on art
    Warning: art that will blow your mind

    James Turrell's Bindu Shards at the Gagosian Gallery in King's Cross is an optical voyage that will turn your head inside out

November 2005

  • Deer shelter to become £800,000 work of art

    A disused deer shelter near Wakefield is to be the site of a permanent "skyspace" created by the installation artist James Turrell.

December 2000

  • Monty Don on gardening
    Let there be light

    James Turrell has harnessed the pearly skies and eerie darkness of wildest Northumbria to create his new sky sculpture.

September 2000

  • James Turrell Skyspace

    Kielder, Northumberland *****

July 1999

  • Immortal longings

    In the world of contemporary art James Turrell is a freak and a prophet. Bearded, slightly otherworldly and extremely courteous, he talks to me on one of his rare trips away from the volcano in the Arizona desert where he lives and works. Since 1974 Turrell has been transforming the vast natural telescope dish of Roden Crater into an artwork, the light of which comes from the sun, moon, stars and planets. Now the revelation is at hand. Roden Crater will open to the public on October 15 next year. It will be the world's biggest, boldest, most sublime public artwork. "It's amazing", says Turrell ecstatically. "I believe this is finally going to happen."

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