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# James Turrell or Looney Tunes?
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/james-turrell-or-looney-tunes/
- Published: 2013-06-21T16:45:26.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T16:35:04.000Z
- Description: Maybe Turrell is an appropriationist at heart?
- Author: Jillian Steinhauer
- Tags: Opinion, James Turrell, LOL, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-hidden, #Import 2025-11-24 06:59 (2012, 2013, part 2)

We were [so enthralled](https://hyperallergic.com/visions-of-light-at-the-guggenheim/) by the new James Turrell installation at the Guggenheim that we failed to notice an eerie pop-cultural similarity: it looks exactly like the [closing image](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FHEeG%5Fuq5Y&ref=hyperallergic.com) for *Looney Tunes*! Good thing [Jennifer Bostic did](https://twitter.com/prplst/status/348103990929670144?ref=hyperallergic.com), and for that she wins the internet today.

![Turrell-LooneyTunes](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2013/06/turrell-looneytunes.jpg)

(via Jennifer Bostic on Twitter)

Maybe Turrell is an appropriationist at heart?