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...culminated in the creation of the front-of-the-magazine Chronicles section came another decision: to open with an original painting depicting someone in the week's news. In the Spotlight has since become a hallmark feature, thanks in large part to the creativity of assistant art director Ken Smith, who assigns and directs the artists...
While the Spotlight paintings are fully executed portraits, they are usually commissioned on a crash basis. The process begins Wednesday morning, when Smith meets with editors to choose the week's subject, then turns to his Rolodex of 160 artists. He and the selected artist exchange sketches and notes via fax, and by 5 o'clock Friday afternoon a finished work of art has arrived in his office, usually by messenger or express delivery...
Sometimes Smith has to improvise. When a Canadian artist's work was impounded by customs, he had to negotiate its release with frantic phone calls. "Every week I feel I've dodged a bullet," he says. Last month he had to dodge a blizzard. A picture arriving late from Los Angeles was grounded by snow in Chicago. It made it into the building at 7 p.m. Saturday, barely beating our final deadline. To do this week's painting of the O.J. Simpson trial, Smith chose Jon Ellis, whose vivid style lends itself to the circus motif-and who delivered...
...Globe also reported that Brian Smith is theprime suspect in a 1991 murder in Charlestown. Noarrests have yet been made in that case...
Cambridge Police Detective Frank T. Pasquarellosaid Leahy and Smith had not been questioned inBeth Israel about the third suspect...