In these turbulent times, creativity and empathy are more necessary than ever to bridge divides and find solutions. Artnet News’s Art and Empathy Project is an ongoing investigation into how the art ...

Since Thomas Edison invented the incandescent bulb in 1880, the primary purpose of electric light has been to illuminate. That was until artist James Turrell came around, subverting light and ...

Artist James Turrell, who has more public installations in Houston than in any other U.S. city, on Monday received the 2013 National Medal of Arts from President Obama during a White House ceremony.

Since the 1960s, James Turrell, the 75-year-old American artist who studied perceptual psychology, has been fixated on light and all the ways he can manipulate it with space and color. But the power ...

Nearly hidden from view and surrounded almost entirely by the Pike National Forest is the small town of Green Mountain Falls, Colorado, population 875. Situated at an altitude of 7,800 feet, the town ...

NORTH ADAMS — Artist James Turrell is turning an unused concrete water tank on the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art’s campus into his latest Skyspace. When completed and opened to the public ...

The name might not be all that familiar to those outside the art world, James Turrell has transcended the notoriously exclusive industry and entered the realm of popular culture. Simply put, he’s just ...

Kim Kardashian proved fashion is art by matching her pink Balenciaga dress to her James Turrell artwork for a photo op before hitting the star-studded Baby2Baby Gala 2022 red carpet Saturday. The ...

A writer returns to his native Australian island, where seeing the aurora takes more work than in the north, home of mass-market lights tourism. But the awe is the same. By Ben Buckland The artist is ...

A cultural destination is born in New York’s Sullivan County, featuring world-class art alongside regional talents. By Laura van Straaten LIVINGSTON MANOR, N.Y. — On Oct. 22, a stretch of Main Street ...