Kanye West donates $10m for James Turrell art installation

Rapper contributes funds to complete long-gestating land art piece in Arizona, having described the work as ‘life-changing’

Kanye West has donated $10m (£7.77m) to the creation of a major work of land art by James Turrell.

The money will fund the ongoing construction of Roden Crater in Arizona, which is described on the project’s website as “a controlled environment for the experiencing and contemplation of light”. The completed work will comprise a series of 21 viewing spaces connected by six tunnels, creating “a vast, naked eye observatory for celestial objects and events ranging from obscure and infrequent to the more familiar summer and winter solstice”.

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