Spencer Beckwith On The Arts
Twice A Month During KUNM's Broadcast Of NPR's "Weekend Edition Saturday"
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Art in America called her work "pure optical pleasure" -- "shimmering" and "optimistic." Grids of tiny hand-painted numbers laid out in bands of color…
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Steel sheets of various sizes are welded together at the seams, heated, and then inflated with compressed air, like large vividly-colored metal balloons.…
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Activist Harvey Milk was one of the first openly-gay elected officials in the United States. In 1978, eleven months after his election, Milk was…
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By the late 1700s, flamenco music and dance had taken Europe by storm. On March 15 and 16 at Albuquerque's National Hispanic Cultural Center, the question…
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At 31, flush with royalties from her book, Cowboys Are My Weakness, Pam Houston made a down payment on her first home, a ranch on the Upper Rio Grande in…
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In early March, ten young people representing high schools across New Mexico will stand on the stage of the St. Francis Auditorium in Santa Fe, before a…
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In the 1950s, poet Weldon Kees documented a transformative car trip in his poem, "Travels in North America." Sixty years later, another poet, Ray…
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For a while in the 1960s, Argentine tango master Astor Piazzolla abandoned his usual concert halls and nightclubs to create something instead for the…
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Jon Anderson has been based in Albuquerque ever since he graduated from The University of New Mexico's School of Architecture and Planning in 1973. His…
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Of all the great Broadway choreographers, the late Bob Fosse was perhaps the most distinctive. His style was immediately recognizable in shows like…