Spencer Beckwith On The Arts
Twice A Month During KUNM's Broadcast Of NPR's "Weekend Edition Saturday"
Spencer Beckwith covers the performing arts in Northern and Central New Mexico for KUNM.
Latest Episodes
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An interview recorded in 2016 with Antoine Predock. -
In the early years, rock 'n' roll posters were pretty basic -- large legible print, studio photos of the performers and one or two primary colors as… -
Over 500 people crowded into Albuquerque's Harwood Art Center last year for the opening of Recycled Heart, an exhibit of artwork made from cast-off… -
Covering Super Bowl XLIX in Phoenix a few years ago, New York Times journalist Michael Powell, disheartened by the commercialism of the big game, drove… -
Towns in 18th Century New Mexico were built as enclosures. Outside adobe walls were windowless and doorless, facing inward were homes and a place of… -
When her husband Alfred Stieglitz died in 1946, Georgia O'Keeffe left New Mexico to settle Stieglitz's complicated finances in New York. She wound up… -
The Grawemeyer Award is the world's top honor for musical composition. Recipients include John Adams, Pierre Boulez, Esa-Pekka Salonen and John… -
Through December, and after sunset, the public can visit five locations in downtown Albuquerque where local artists have created light-based artworks.… -
Printmaking, said Gustave Baumann, "requires soul, imagination, deftness . . . and unlimited patience." A beautiful and deeply-detailed new book on… -
Nick Otero teaches art at Bosque Farms Elementary School south of Albuquerque. In his spare time he makes saints -- New Mexico's traditional santos.…
