Julian May
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 27 Jul
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Welcome to the documentary in the studio from the BBC World Service.
This is the programme that explores the work of the world's leading artists as they're making it.
We have to finish the floor, do the finish to the seats, also get the cushions made.
I'm Julian May and I'm at Aarhus, the art museum in Aarhus in Denmark.
I'm on the top floor, a circular gallery with glass walls.
As I walk round, I realise the glass is red, then further on it's orange, yellow, green, blue.
I'm looking down at the city through a rainbow panorama.
It's beautiful.
It's January the 15th today, overcast, grey, cold.
I begin to understand that here in the north, where the winters are long and it never really gets light, and the summers short and it never really gets dark, people have an intense relationship with light.
So it's no surprise that the newest work here that's still being built, it will open on June the 19th, close to midsummer, is all about light and colour.
Outside the entrance to Aarhus, which is a very modern building, is a huge mound covered in grass.
It looks ancient.
It could be the burial site of a Viking chief, except for a rusty metal cap and some men I see working on it.
This is the latest of what James Turrell calls Sky Spaces, and it's titled As Seen Below the Dome.
To experience the work, you'll have to go underground beneath the huge dome and look up to a hole in the top.
that's cut out to let the sky in.
James Turrell, in his 80s now, has created skyspaces in 39 countries.
He's famous as a light artist.
But, I asked when we met, haven't all artists all over the world always been concerned with light?
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