The city of Los Angeles, where James Turrell was born in 1943, is hosting an exhibition (at LACMA) that covers five decades of creation through a selection of fifty works – including the monumental Roden Crater in a volcano in Arizona, on which the artist began working in 1979. Ever since he discovered light as an object to be observed, Turrell’s work has centered on matters such as perception, psychology, astronomy or science. Aside from the retrospective exhibition at the California museum, there have been two more shows devoted to Turrell on view in the United States: one at The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH), and another at New York’s Guggenheim Museum...[+]