Larry Bell in the studio, 2025, Taos, New Mexico (photo Nancy Zastudil/Hyperallergic) TAOS, New Mexico — “Have a good time,” Larry Bell tells me. He’s left me alone to look at one of his Light Knot ...

On an unseasonably mild day in May, Larry Bell was overseeing the final stages of the installation of his sweeping survey at the Phoenix Art Museum. Dapper in a madras-plaid blazer and his signature ...

Los Angeles, 2 March 2026: By the time the last shuttle pulled away from Santa Monica Airport on Sunday evening, most dealers stopped pretending to be skittish. The San Antonio Museum of Art announced ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As a quintessential member of the Light and Space movement—the blend of Minimalism and curiosity about optical perception that ...

Larry Bell, pioneer of West Coast Minimalism, installs his glass sculptures in a Manhattan park, letting passers-by see the city anew. Larry Bell in Madison Square Park with his piece “Cantaloupe but ...

At 85, Larry Bell—one of the original figureheads of Southern California’s Light and Space movement—hardly projects the aura of a sage-like guru. At the preview for his new exhibition in Madison ...

It’s somewhat unusual these days to encounter shows of contemporary art that are simply ravishing—that have no political agenda, no “forgotten” artists to unearth, no revisionist histories to put ...

Even if a visitor is in a bit of a rush walking through Madison Square Park, they might want to slow down and take a look at a glass sculpture called "Red Eyes." It's a new work from celebrated artist ...

This spring, Phoenix Art Museum presents Larry Bell: Improvisations, showcasing the artistic achievements and career of one of the most influential artists to emerge from the Light and Space movement.

He’d dropped out of the Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles, where he’d enrolled with the goal of becoming a Disney animator, after realizing he was more drawn to fine art. To pay for a studio in ...