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\n\tDevon Booker, a five-time All Star guard for the NBA\u2019s Phoenix Suns, has visited James Turrell\u2019s fabled Roden Crater<\/em> three times\u2014and even struck up something of a friendship with an artist who called him an \u201camazing person \u2026 taking it to another level, and that\u2019s what all artists try to do.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tAs reported in a lengthy profile in The Athletic<\/em>, the sports section of the New York Times<\/em>, Booker first traveled to Roden Crater<\/em> in 2020, when he was first rapt by an artwork in a dormant volcano that Turrell has been toiling away at for more than 50 years. Booker has also been talking about an imminent visit with teammate Steph Curry (\u201cwho recently purchased a piece by Turrell\u201d), and even designed a basketball shoe for Nike that Turrell took a liking to.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cMy hair is sticking up on my arm just remembering every time I\u2019ve been there,\u201d Booker told The Athletic <\/em>about Roden Crater<\/em>. \u201cI don\u2019t know if you\u2019ve ever felt like you were going to a different dimension, but it\u2019s like a portal that you\u2019re walking toward and no matter how close you get\u2014I want to say heaven\u2019s on the other side\u2014but it feels like you\u2019re going somewhere.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tTurrell is a fan of basketball and, of course, art that takes a certain kind of investment to appreciate in full. \u201cThese are things that take time,\u201d he told The Athletic<\/em>. \u201cIt\u2019s shorter than a basketball game, but it\u2019s longer than a sermon.\u201d Of meeting Booker, Turrell said, \u201cIt was quite a thrill. These are people that are special and have been special to basketball, to Arizona and the community in Phoenix. He\u2019s quite an amazing person.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tBooker has developed a reputation as a man of taste, with a wide variety of interests. \u201cHe wants to be Devin. He doesn\u2019t want to be nobody else,\u201d Ryan Dunn, a teammate, said. \u201cFrom the way that he dresses to his house to his (art) collection, it\u2019s something that\u2019s unique and one of one. Devin\u2019s one of the guys where he likes what he likes, and he doesn\u2019t need nobody else to tell him what to like.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tBooker, for his part, said Roden Crater<\/em> and other art of its kind can be helpful in gaining perspective, on and off the court. \u201cIt just makes you super present,\u201d he said. \u201cNot many times you get to be where your two feet are at and not think about anything else that\u2019s going on in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n [analyse_source url=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/art-news\/news\/nba-devon-booker-james-turrell-roden-crater-1234781316\/”]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/GettyImages-494017278-copy.jpg?w=1024″] Devon Booker, a five-time All Star guard for the NBA\u2019s Phoenix Suns, has visited James Turrell\u2019s fabled Roden Crater three times\u2014and even struck up something of a friendship with an artist who called him an \u201camazing person \u2026 taking it to another level, and that\u2019s what all artists try to do.\u201d As […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,226],"class_list":["post-1883953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-artnews-com","tag-crawlmanager"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1883953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1883953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1883953\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1883953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1883953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1883953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}