Posted on May 15, 2019 On this date in 2017, James Turrell opened the monumental art project he's been working on for more than 40 years to guests making big donations. An art project called Roden Crater. Roden Crater was a cinder cone - the remains of an ancient, extinct volcano - located in the Painted Desert of Arizona. And it wasn't for sale. This was back in the early 1970s. Artist James Turrell wouldn't take "no" for an answer; after working on the purchase for three years, he was able to buy Roden Crater. And then he was able to start building a naked-eye observatory for viewing the sun and the moon, winter and summer solstice, and other sky sights. What's the connection between a cinder cone and an observatory? Turrell is utilizing the remote location as a way of gaining darker night skies than most of us are used to. He's using the desert location as a way of gaining more sunny days and clear night skies than many other locations. And Turrell is utilizing the inner cone of the crater as a way of focusing our sight of the wide Western skies into a smaller viewpoint, a more narrow aperture. The observatory is not something that intrudes much into the desert landscape - it's what is called "minimally invasive" - and the tunnels and viewing spots inside the crater are specially engineered to create a truly different way of experiencing and seeing light. Now, when I first discovered that such a cool naked-eye observatory was being built - and so near me! - I assumed that there were one or two viewing spots within the crater. But there are TWENTY-ONE! And it may be that Turrell is planning an eventual 23 different viewing spots, plus six different tunnels connecting them! You can browse some of these spots, right now, before the observatory opens to the general public some time in the next five years, on this website. The lucky folks who already got to experience the Roden Crater had to pay quite a bit for their luck - they made $5,000 donations to Turrell's non-profit organization to fund further work. Some people kicked in another $1,500 for a hotel room, onsite dinner, and breakfast the following morning! Check out this video and this other video on Turrell's Roden Crater project, and this video that shows one of Turrell's other works (also seen in the still photo below). Also on this date: San Isidro Day in Madrid Straw Hat Day Archeologist Marta Rieche's birthday Wizard of Oz author L. Frank Baum's birthday Paraguay's Independence Day National Slider Day Birthday of activist Diane Nash Turn Beauty Inside Out Day (Third Wednesday of May) Plan ahead: Check out my Pinterest boards for: May holidays May birthdays Historical anniversaries in May And here are my Pinterest boards for: June holidays June birthdays Historical anniversaries in June
James Turrell’s “Aten Reign” at the Guggenheim
Artist James Turrell has transformed the Guggenheim Museum into a jaw-dropping, neck-cranking, ever-shifting experience with light and space.
Printed illustration, Turner 300g paper, 59.4 x 42 cm, signed The Androgynous are a series of illustrations consisting of watercolour parts and archival photographs. In this series of illustrations, I trace the wandering of a being in several dimensions. Passing through the corridors of James Turrell or Tadao Ando, through the turbulent surfaces of the ocean or desert, he observes, experiences the ontological experience of light, matter, emptiness and fullness, the cosmos. It's a search for the touch through the warm concrete walls. From the sensation of a ray of sunshine through an opening. Perdition in front of an infinitely elusive perspective. Or the foam of a suspended wave. They are beings without gender identity, scientific beings at the service of philosophical questions.
Made in conjunction with architecture studio A-Works.
American artist James Turrell's best-known work, Roden Crater, is now set to open to the public within the next few years.
The Irish Sky Garden was designed by the american artist James Turrell, who main work concerned with light and space, to complement the rounded and pyramid-like shapes of natural landscape that sur…
in collaboration with the kunstmuseum wolfsburg, american light artist james turrell has created his largest-ever walk-in light installation within a museum context: an 11 metre high structure 'space within a space' which covers a floor area of 700 metres and reaches up to the museum's glass roof.
James Turrell clouds the Guggenheim’s interior in colours of the entire spectrum, so that visitors enter a prismatic environment within Frank Lloyd Wright’s pearly shell.
As in the biblical act of creation, artist James Turrell likes to start with the light. Over the past five decades, he has used it and manipulated it to create a moving, mystical body of installation art designed to blast open our perceptions. And while his work will appear for a limited time this summer at the Venice Biennale and at Moscow’s Garage Center for contemporary culture, Turrell can always be found working on his eternal masterpiece—a crater in Arizona with a view of the universe.
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...
LOS ANGELES — Nothing about Turrell is standard. And everything about his work seems impossible.
From a crater in the Netherlands to a chapel in Berlin to a vineyard in Argentina, the famed light artist’s masterworks span the globe
Explore the work of James Turrell across Europe, those wonderful structures seem to harness the elements creating art that defies categorization.
Wedding photography highlights from Dunja and Matt's Canberra wedding at the NGA (National Gallery of Australia).
Rencontre avec l’artiste au cœur du « Roden Crater », œuvre pharaonique encore inachevée
NOT FOR SALE OR LICENSE IN PRINT OR DIGITAL. Mabry Campbell Photography
'the color inside' is the eighty-fourth skyspace created by james turrell, a series which sees the renowned american artist using light and space as the mediums in experiential and continuously changing artworks.
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Arden Reed’s "Slow Art: The Experience of Looking, Sacred Images to James Turrell" makes the case for studying slowness in art.
THE IRISH SKY GARDEN CRATER Photograph by Liss Ard Estate Located at the Liss Ard Estate Gardens in Cork County, Ireland; the James Turrell Irish Sky Garden Crater is an amazin…
