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James Turrell completed CCA’s Skyspace in 1988. Now, at age 70, Turrell is world famous in contemporary art circles.
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Latest leaked documents outline program’s ability to search emails, online chats, browsing histories By Ellen Nakashima The Washington Post
WASHINGTON — Obama administration officials on Wednesday faced deepening political skepticism over a far-reaching counterterrorism program that collects millions of Americans’ phone records, even as they released newly declassified documents in an attempt to spotlight privacy safeguards. The previously secret material — a court order and reports to Congress — was released by Director of National Intelligence James Clapper as a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing opened Wednesday morning in which lawmakers sharply questioned the efficacy of the collection of bulk phone records. A senior National Security Agency official conceded that the surveillance effort was the primary tool in thwarting only one plot — not the dozens that officials had previously suggested. In recent weeks, political support for such broad col-
Nonprofit hopes to rejuvenate early work by now-famous artist By Tom Sharpe
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fter James Turrell completed Skyspace in a parking lot of Santa Fe’s Center for Contemporary Arts with funding from the Lannan Foundation in the summer of 1988, it was open every Friday evening around sunset so locals could get a look at the New Mexico sky from Turrell’s perspective. Turrell was then a Flagstaff, Ariz., artist beginning to get traction with his experiential and monumental — yet deceptively simple — works of art that toy with light and other natural phenomena. He would win a MacArthur Fellowship the following year. Now, at age 70, Turrell is worldfamous in contemporary art circles, often compared with environmental artists such as Walter de Maria — who died July 25 and is known for The Lightning Field in Catron County — and Christo — known for his “wraps” of landmarks and landscapes, with the next one scheduled on the Arkansas River in southern Colorado in 2015. Turrell is featured in a triple retrospective this year at New York’s Guggenheim Museum, Houston’s Museum of Fine Arts and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. He continues to work on Roden Crater, a volcanic crater near Flagstaff that he is turning into a massive nakedeye observatory — what could be the final evolution of his “skyspace” series that began in CCA’s parking lot. But 25 years later, Skyspace has deteriorated. Its stucco plaster is flaking off and crumbling onto the masonry bench that rings its white-
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Navajo Nation backs horse slaughterhouse
Candace Tangorra Matelic, executive director of Santa Fe’s Center for Contemporary Arts, stands Wednesday inside artist James Turrell’s Skyspace on the CCA grounds. Twenty-five years later, Skyspace has deteriorated and is kept closed, below, but CCA wants to renovate it as part of its 35th anniversary events. PHOTOS BY LUIS SÁNCHEZ SATURNO/THE NEW MEXICAN
Thousands of feral animals too much for reservation, officials say By Jeri Clausing
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ALBUQUERQUE — The Navajo Nation is jumping into the emotional and divisive fray over a return to domestic horse slaughter, drafting a letter to federal officials in support of a New Mexico company’s plan to begin exporting horse meat next week. The tribe’s support for Valley Meat Co. comes one week after Robert Redford and former Gov. Bill Richardson joined the opposite side of the debate, saying, among other reasons, that they were “standing with Native American leaders” to protect cultural values. But Erny Zah, spokesman for Navajo President Ben Shelly, said Wednesday that the nation’s largest Indian reservation can no longer support the estimated 75,000 feral horses that are drinking wells dry and causing ecological damage to the drought-stricken range. “It’s a sensitive subject to begin with because horses are considered sacred animals, so you just can’t go out and euthanize them,” Zah said. “That would go too far against cultural conditions. At the same time, we have
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Crash victim’s mother chagrined by driver’s recent DWI arrest By Chris Quintana The New Mexican
Nick Mares, who pleaded guilty to vehicular homicide a decade ago, faces a drunkendriving charge after backing into a taxi and fleeing police early Tuesday.
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Gina C’de Baca, whose son died while riding with a drunken driver a decade ago, was OK with the fact that the judge gave the young driver a second chance. After Nick Mares pleaded guilty to vehicular homicide for the death of 27-year-old Albertano C’de Baca, Mares spent a year on electronic monitoring and another five years on probation, in addition to more than nine months in custody. But Gina C’de Baca’s sentiments have changed since learning that Mares once again faces a drunken-driving charge. “I don’t feel very good that he did that,” Gina C’de Baca said. “They gave him a chance. It’s too bad for him and the family. And I am just sorry that it happened again.”
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Early Tuesday morning, Santa Fe police officers arrested Mares, 33, on charges of aggravated DWI, causing an accident that damaged a vehicle, and possession of marijuana and drug paraphernalia. A police report said Mares had backed a pickup into a taxi in a parking lot at Cheeks, a strip club at 2841 Cerrillos Road. After pounding on the taxi’s front passenger window and demanding that the driver move, the report said, Mares fled on foot and was later picked up by police on Cerrillos Road near Siler Road. Police said Mares smelled of alcohol, but he repeatedly refused to submit to a Breathalyzer test. He was later released from jail Tuesday evening on a $10,000 surety bond. Celina Westervelt, the police department’s
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Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival The Johannes String Quartet performs music of Dutilleux and Brahms, noon; baritone Matthew Worth, pianist Shai Wosner and the Johannes String Quartet in a program of Schumann and Schubert, 6 p.m., tickets at 982-1890; St. Francis Auditorium, New Mexico Museum of Art 107 W. Palace Ave. More events in Calendar, A-2 and Fridays in Pasatiempo
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Obituaries Isabel (Belle) Ortiz, Santa Fe, July 28 Ruth Cleo Brighton, 91, Santa Fe, July 26 Dr. Richard S. Mechem, Santa Fe, July 29 PAGE A-10
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