Quotes from “Why Kanye West used a remote crater in the desert as the set for his new film” By Patrick Sisson, Curbed.com “Amid the many noteworthy and attention-grabbing aspects of West’s new album drop is the shooting location of the new promotional film—the Roden Crater. Currently under construction, the project designed by light artist James Turrell is …
by admin On Wednesday, February 6, Hiram Butler, James Turrell’s long-time friend and agent, will talk about how James Turrell’s brilliant ideas are made real – from the epic Roden Crater to the intimate Chestnut Hill Skyspace. Hiram, a native Texan who helped build Houston’s Live Oak Friends Meeting with a Skyspace, introduced Chestnut Hill Quakers to …
by admin Suddenly James Turrell, creator of the Skyspace at Chestnut Hill Friends Meeting, is in the news a lot. Below are a link to new developments at his Skyspace at PS1 and downloads of two articles about his Roden Crater project in the Arizona desert. Article from Hyperallergic.com about a Skyspace disruption at PS1: James Turrell’s …
by admin YOU ARE INVITED! Please join us to hear Diane Burko speak at Chestnut Hill Friends Meeting at 7:30 PM on Tuesday, February 6 at 20 E. Mermaid Lane. Our annual mid-winter lecture is titled “Jim Turrell, Me and the Aerial View.” The event is free but donations will be gratefully accepted at the door. Invite …
by admin Check out the video on curiosity.com featuring Turrell’s Aten Reign: https://curiosity.com/videos/how-the-guggenheim-built-the-cone-structure-for-james-turrells-aten-reign-guggenheim-museum
by admin “Lifting the veil on Mass MoCA’s expansion” by Malcolm Gay Read this interesting Boston Globe article on Building 6 at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, which will house nine pieces by Turrell. The whole room, [Joseph C. Thompson] explained, should feel “like the inside of a cloud — nothing but light. There’s an immense …
by admin The first Skyspace opening of our new season is a dawn opening at the luxuriously late start time of 6:26am on Sunday, March 12! That’s 50 minutes before sunrise (at 7:16am). If you’ve never been to a dawn Skyspace opening, you owe yourself this treat to start your Sunday sublimely. But if you oversleep you …
by admin The Jasper String Quartet presented the second of four concerts at CHFM on February 23. This series featured the following musical pieces: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | Quartet in D major, K. 575*Samuel Barber | Quartet Op. 11, “Adagio”Ludwig van Beethoven | Quartet in B flat major, Op. 130 with Grosse Fuge The third concert in the series …
by admin Dear Pope Francis: On behalf of Philadelphia area Quakers, we write to thank you for your generous words in front of Independence Hall about our immigrant forefathers and mothers who founded this colony on the principles of religious freedom and tolerance for all people including those who lived here before we arrived. Your messages throughout your visit …
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