· By SYZY Corp.
JAMES TURNELL
Last week it was reported that Kanye West had donated $10 million to artist James Turrell’s ongoing ”Roden Crater Project” (1972). The 75-year-old artist has spent a large portion of his working life converting an extinct volcano in Arizona’s Painted Desert into a major land art piece which West described on Twitter as “life-changing”. Turrell has been fundraising $200 million in collaboration with Arizona State University, with plans to turn the site into a “creative campus”, and has offered an updated estimated opening of 2024.