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 ...

Now entering his seventh decade of visionary artmaking, James Turrell is still finding new ways to transform light and space into immersive sensory experiences. Born in Los Angeles in 1943, James ...

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 ...

It's waaaay prettier in real life, I swear. God bless the Contemporary Forum. God Bless 'em, I say! Last night was the unveiling of the new James Turrell installation at Phoenix Art Museum and the ...

Paint, plastic and flashbulbs: What the visionary artist achieves with those materials is astounding in its effect. By Max Lakin Why yes it was, courtesy of the Netflix co-founder Reed Hastings, who ...

LACMA is currently showing a retrospective of 50 years of work by James Turrell; the Guggenheim Manhattan is about to open a show in which the light and space artist drenches the interior of Frank ...

With a major retrospective opening on Sunday at LACMA, and a gallery show just up the street from the museum unveiling special works he created for its new, grand space, the Los Angeles born light ...

Walking into a work by James Turrell forces you to scrutinize the environment around you since there is so little to look at except light and color. But then the perceptive viewer will quickly realize ...

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 ...