Word: kingston
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...KINGSTON...
...operation since 1982, Kingston Gallery is a non-profit artist-run cooperative exhibiting work of all media. Situated in close proximity to such prominent commercial galleries as Bernard Toale, Clifford-Smith and Genovese/Sullivan, it holds its own with substantive shows such as November's solo exhibition of Janet Hansen Kawada's powerful, near-animate creations of felt, wool and wire...
...Kingston St., 5th Floor (T: Chinatown...
...deal with stuffy curators or pushy gallery directors looking for the next big-bang art star. Some of the spaces now in Boston, like Bromfield and Mobius, started in the '70s; others have started up more recently, but with much the same spirit. While a few spaces, like Kingston and Mills, resemble commercial galleries, most are more like ramshackle clubhouses for artists. Many are inside artist live/work buildings, and thus function as a kind of extended living room for their residents. The art on the walls is just the beginning: many of these places offer performances, film screenings, live music...
Softbank's rivals can take some solace in knowing that Son's mistakes have been spectacular. He wasted billions of dollars on Ziff-Davis, which he is trying to sell off piece by piece. He sold Kingston at a loss, and some of his start-ups, as start-ups are wont to do, went south. Son would say these failures are the price of admission. If you don't play...