In this video (2min 19sec) exceptional artist Randall LaGro discusses his methods, techniques, and materials in creating his intuitive paintings and monotypes. Discover Randall's personal thoughts regarding a shift in mindset toward his new paintings. LaGro works most often with paintings and monotypes, two distinctly different methods that allow him great freedom in attempting his goals. ""I want to speak to the poets, artists, and philosophers, but I don't want to lose the guy on the tractor. Art has always been language to me - thats its power."" The power inherent in the paintings of LaGro is overwhelming. Using predominantly rich and somber tones on large-scale canvasses or wood panels, LaGro introduces viewers to figures of uncommon translucence, unsettling anguish, and uncertain perspective.

Stacey Huddleston AKA Radhika - This Spring a marvelous fine art show took place in early May. Stacey Huddleston debuted many pieces of sculpture and painting that she had been creating in her studio on Ledoux Street.

In Taos, Stacey's friends call her Radhika, a name she was given by a saint in India some years ago, and she uses that name to sign some of her pieces.

To say that Stacey Huddleston can emerge as one of the important artists of Taos is easy. Her paintings are both lovely and haunting at the same time. The theme of many paintings in her 'Love is Blind' series reflect poetic stanzas to the romantic notion of love. Her color palette is unmatched and demands a wall in any smartly designed house. Ms. Huddleston's sculpture is groundbreaking and 'new school' with shape and imagery that takes the mind into museum collections from ancient cultures. Her style is not imitatable. Radhika's subject matter is off the beaten path giving fresh vistas to familiar scenes.

Video Visit (7min 58sec) Interview with John Nichols, Taos author and writer of the Milagro Beanfield War, Sterile Cuckoo, and lots of others. John Nichols is the author of the New Mexico trilogy, a series about the complex relationship between history, race and ethnicity, and land and water rights in the fictional Chamisaville County, New Mexico. The trilogy consists of The Milagro Beanfield War (which became a movie by Robert Redford), The Magic Journey, and The Nirvana Blues. Two of his other novels have been made into films. The Wizard of Loneliness was published in 1966 and the film version with Lukas Haas was made in 1988. Another successful movie adaptation was of The Sterile Cuckoo, which was published in 1965 and was filmed by Alan J. Pakula in 1969. "I written 80 books, 90 books, and I've published sixteen of them. I have been writing books since I was sixteen years old. And most of them and most of the drafts of books that eventuallu got published were totally unsuccessful...

Gallery LouLou generates wave of 60s nostalgia. Video (3min 49sec) of LouLou Smiley and Rudy Funk of Gallery LouLou in Ranchos de Taos, tell Rick Romancito about their gallery's inaugural show of photographs of countercultural legends by Baron Wolman, Michael Zagaris and Jim Marshall.

In the video are photographs of Brian Jones with Jimi Hendrix by Jim Marshall; Hendrix by Marshall; "Janice in San Francisco" by Baron Wolman; The Who members Roger Daltry, Keith Moon, Pete Townsend with promoter Bill Graham by Michael Zagaris; Mick Jagger on the set of the film "Performance," by Wolman; Bob Dylan by Marshall.

"This is Rock and Roll photography from the 60s. These are the photographers that were There. They were filming Jimi Hendrix, Janice Joplin, The Doors, everybody back in the 60s.