The Keynotes

D.1945-16

Popular events at Theater Two included big dances that featured Los Alamos band “The Keynotes.” This band, created by Harold Fishbine, who had been an amateur musician before the war, played Big Band classics. The band continued to play after the war, doing gigs in Santa Fe. Two other bands at Los Alamos were called Los Cuatros and Sad Sack Six.

In exchange with the space, Huyghe also made a point of allowing the spider their own agency.  Each time an insect passed over an installed electromagnetic device, the gallery’s lights were momentarily suspended and the viewer was plunged into darkness.  This created an opportunity to behold Huyghe’s radiant glow-in-the-dark work, Dress For Radium Dance.  The… Lire la suite Spider