News
Yesterday saw the release of a single from Jay Electronica, the second this month from the elusive London-based rapper. This latest song features Jay Z, who deploys his verses to respond to a comment Drake made about his Picasso proclivities in a Rolling Stone profile last month.
Opinion
The laws of optics may be well known, but this video does a really concise job of clarifying the complexity of what we see and why we can't always trust our eyes.
Art
I have been in the presence of the Grand Canyon four times so far, have been down the lip of the Grand Canyon a couple of miles, have seen it in a variety of seasons — spring, summer, and fall — in a variety of weather conditions — snowfall on the rim and desert heat down below — among a throng and
Comics
A young James Turrell's moment of enlightenment.
Art
LOS ANGELES — Nothing about Turrell is standard. And everything about his work seems impossible.
Art
LOS ANGELES — Nothing about Turrell is standard. And everything about his work seems impossible.
Opinion
Maybe Turrell is an appropriationist at heart?
Art
SAN FRANCISCO — On a hot desert afternoon nothing sounds better than the arctic blast of a shopping center. Yes, it is a “dry heat,” but at 110 degrees, the relevance of humidity levels dissipates. So what store should you go to? If it were me, I’d call Louis Vuitton at City Center and make an appoi
Art
Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim Museum in New York is one of the most famous contemporary art institutions in the world, and yet part of that fame, lending the place a kind of quasi-notoriety, is the idea that the building itself isn't actually a great venue for showing art. Or as architecture Paul
News
NORTH ADAMS, Massachusetts — Everything is bigger in Texas: the roads, the suburbs, the T-bone steaks, the ten-gallon hats, and certainly the sky. The Texas sky seems to go on and on, an uncanny hue of blue, pierced only by the white-hot nexus of the unrelenting sun. Indeed, waxing poetic with refle
Opinion
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, then you realize how much there is to actually examine. Framing light, Turrell's work can feel effortless but their impact on our perceptions can be pr
Art
While in Santa Fe for the Currents New Media Festival, artist Jason Varone found an early James Turrell skyspace on the grounds of the Center for Contemporary Arts.