James Turrell
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There’s nothing in it ... Nothing’s in it at all! Nothing.
No, no ... It has not left Frankfurt. I don’t know what’s going on.
We don't generally look at light—we illuminate other things with light ... But I'm interested in the light itself, its materiality or its presence in relationship to us.More quotes »
Around the web
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IT'S THE EYE...
No, it's the mind. No, it's the mind's eye. The James Turrell exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art opens all three--eye, mind, mind's eye, and leaves the visitor... well, ecstatic, if ecstasy is understood as ec-stasis, a knocking out of inertia 10:40 AM from Buddha Diaries Read more »
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Davidson on James Turrell’s Hallucinatory Guggenheim Transformation
the cylinder of space and glance upwards, letting their eyes follow the whorl of the ramp as it spirals toward the skylight. James Turrell, virtuoso of light and disturber of visual fields, has given them a new reason to raise their gaze: a vertical tunnel from Vulture Read more »
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Morning Bites: Parody Songs, Karen Green Reviewed, James Turrell Profiled, Yo La Tengo at Maxwell’s, and More
“It reminds me of the best parts in Geoff Dyer’s But Beautiful, where he spins dazzling portraits of multiple jazz legends. But the lens through which Green peers is tinged with her ongoing inquiry on absence.” Talking Karen Green’s Bough Down at Hyperalle from Vol.1: Brooklyn Read more »
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The 6th Floor Blog: Behind the Cover Story: Wil Hylton on James Turrell’s Magic
about the artist James Turrell. His last article for the magazine was about Belgian tobacco . When did you first hear about James Turrell? It was about 20 years ago at a museum in Pittsburgh called the Mattress Factory . They have one of his “Dark Space” pieces, from The New York Times Read more »
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The Best Artist Instagrams of the Week
this week's Instagrams in the art world, we present to some big names in the art world. Many people were talking about James Turrell and his slew of exhibitions. Art Basel 2013 saw appearances by Rob Pruitt, Piotr Uklanski, and of course Kanye West. We also from Complex Read more »
