Uploaded December 2013 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago

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"Light knows when we're looking." Excerpt from the dialogue with Charlie Rose "James Turrell - Looking at Light" (2013): youtube.com/watch?v=_bvg6kaWIeo
James Turrell (born 1943) is an American artist primarily concerned with light and space. Turrell was a MacArthur Fellow in 1984. Turrell is best known for his work in progress, Roden Crater, a natural cinder cone crater located outside Flagstaff, Arizona that he is turning into a massive naked-eye observatory.