Experience Luxury for Less This Summer in Scottsdale May 6, 2009
Downtowns (SMoCA) features compelling modern art from around the globe in addition to the public "skyspace" by artist James Turrell where visitors can experience the ever-changing light of the desert sky. Admission to SMoCA is free every Thursday. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Coupland takes Toronto Apr 20, 2009
Ms. Mills has worked with a variety of major public artists, including James Turrell, Anish Kapoor and Vito Acconci. But Mr. Coupland's lack of ego, she says, makes him an excellent team player. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
The gravity of modern-art shift to Pacific Rim Apr 5, 2009
"They even have a painting by Ferlinghetti. It's not so bad, but he's not really a painter. He's a writer and an important local person. ... I thought there should have been a little more of the L.A. light and space artists, such as James Turrell and Doug Wheeler.". Even if it stumbles over its own ambitions, "The Third Mind" will stand as a significant landmark in the long process of interpreting American art in a world context. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
* [HARDCOVER: UK] Gods and monsters, both real and unreal Apr 5, 2009
The morning after the party, Jeff and Laura go and sit in a light installation by James Turrell: It was an illusion, but because it was an illusion this did not mean it was less real than anything else, than things which were not illusory. . (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- Sports)
Landscape painting shaped the direction of art for a century, then all but vanished. What happened? Mar 1, 2009
Nine years later, James Turrell began transforming a 3-km-wide (and extinct) volcano crater in Arizona into a huge naked-eye observatory, which he plans finally to open in 2011. Many artists have since followed in this vein, with Andy Goldsworthy's improbable and temporary constructions of natural elements and Christo's eye-catching fabric interventions probably doing the most to popularize the form. (Boston Globe)
