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Raemar, Blue, 1969, Tate: Presented by the Tate Americas Foundation, partial purchase and partial gift of Doris J. Lockhart 2013. © James Turrell. Photo: Chen Hao

June 27, 2022

Light: Works from the Tate’s Collection honours the body and its sensations – this is art which is meant to be felt

Dominic Redfern, RMIT University

From J.M.W. Turner to Yayoi Kusama, this exhibition explores 200 years of art about light.

Time/Timeless/No Time (2004) by Walter De Maria. Todd Lappin/Flickr

April 11, 2021

If I could go anywhere: Japanese art island Chichu, a meditation and an education

Julian Meyrick, Griffith University

The Chichu Art Museum, on the Japanese island of Naoshima, is a breathtaking place to rethink the relationship between nature and people.

James Turrell, Raemar pink white 1969, Shallow space construction: fluorescent light, 440 x 1070 x 300 cm, Kayne Griffin Corcoran, Los Angeles, California. National Gallery of Australia

January 7, 2015

Experiments with light: James Turrell dazzles at the NGA

Sasha Grishin, Australian National University

James Turrell is a veteran Californian artist who throughout a career spanning almost half a century has employed light as a vehicle through which to manipulate the viewer’s perception of space. The Turrell…

You float on a causeway in ‘The Light Inside’ through a field of illumination that gradually shifts from blue to crimson to magenta. James Turrell, 1999. Ed Schipul/Flickr

December 9, 2014

James Turrell, a mythic artist in the contemporary constellation

Ted Snell, The University of Western Australia

James Turrell: A Retrospective opens at the National Gallery of Australia (NGA) in Canberra on December 13. The show documents the Californian-born artist’s practice over almost 50 years, including his…

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