This is a view of the sky through a 6-meter-wide hole at the top of James Turrell's huge new installation called The Dome. The color of the light inside this dome keeps changing - and so does the color of the sky, as the day goes by. When you look at a colored disk on a colored background, both colors affect how the disk looks.
"Outside, the Danish evening sky was a mottled gray. But to the viewers gazing up through the opening inside the huge dome that is the American artist James Turrell’s latest creation, the sky was a flat circle of pure color that morphed seamlessly from cobalt blue to teal green, to a yolk-like yellow and back to blue. With each cycle, the colors grew subtly deeper, gradually reaching an intensity that compelled several visitors to lie down directly below the aperture, as if waiting for the mothership to beam them home."
Quote from Lisa Abend at the New York Times (gift link): https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/19/arts/james-turrell-aros-aarhus.html?unlocked_article_code=1.rlA.jTIJ.r9iQQbaM_4d2&smid=url-share
"Outside, the Danish evening sky was a mottled gray. But to the viewers gazing up through the opening inside the huge dome that is the American artist James Turrell’s latest creation, the sky was a flat circle of pure color that morphed seamlessly from cobalt blue to teal green, to a yolk-like yellow and back to blue. With each cycle, the colors grew subtly deeper, gradually reaching an intensity that compelled several visitors to lie down directly below the aperture, as if waiting for the mothership to beam them home."
Quote from Lisa Abend at the New York Times (gift link): https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/19/arts/james-turrell-aros-aarhus.html?unlocked_article_code=1.rlA.jTIJ.r9iQQbaM_4d2&smid=url-share