Why is Charlie Rose such an interrupting cow? (Knock knock.) Where did James Turrell get an embroidered polo shirt with the word "LIGHT" on it? Why is James Turrell's sports jacket royal blue? (Did he win a golf tournament?) Charlie Rose asks incisive questions like: "What don't you know about light?"

It is James Turrell season, folks. The Quaker artist of light—whose Skyspace at the Henry Art Gallery called Light Reign is always available to you and is turning 10 years old this month—has three museum exhibitions around the country right now: at the Guggenheim, at LACMA, and at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston.

Seattle Art Museum owns a Turrell room that it has never exhibited. It's called Avaar, it was first created in 1976, and it was donated to the museum after it made a spectacular appearance in an empty building downtown as part of the inaugural show of the then-brand-new Center on Contemporary Art in 1982. According to its description on SAM's collections archive, the room measures 10 1/3 by 28 by 46 feet—I'm not sure which dimension is which.

Back in 2006, before SAM opened its expanded downtown facility, chief curator Chiyo Ishikawa thought the Turrell would be part of the new lineup, but that didn't end up working out. I have an email into SAM to see if the museum has any plans to put up the piece; I'll let you know what I hear.

Until then, enjoy Santa Claus in his golf jacket in the video. Best takeaway quote is when he's asked about the fact that his work doesn't really read in photographs. "Well," he says, "someone has to make up for all the work that photographs better than it is."