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Lecture series explores Asian art and architecture
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Art and architecture historian Chuck Benson knows the challenges
of giving a slide show/lecture at night.
"Showing slides at night is death on top of death," he says.
So in creating his three-lecture series at the Colorado Springs
Fine Arts Center on the art and architecture of Asia, Benson says
he's tried to make it "fun and accessible, a real treat and magical."
"It has to be meaningful, but you can't blow people away with so
much information, they leave with steam coming out their ears."
In Benson's favor is the subject matter: an extravagant artistic
tradition that reaches back more ...
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