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LE PLUS CA C H A N G E... BY JONATHAN SOROFF An annual benefit for Casa Myrna Vazquez, the event is essentially a by-the-book (but by no means paint-by-numbers) art auction. It took place this yearin the Venetian Room at the Copley Plaza (which, as one guest pointed out, is the only room in Boston where a bandstand shaped like a giant clamshell doesn't look a little too Disney). Among the attendees: joie de lifeforce Linda Schwabe; flack extraordinaire Sally Jackson; improbably tall artist Tom Cotton; incorrigible advertising scamp Duncan Hughes; design avatars Manuel de Santaren and Carolina Tress Balsbaugh; the formidable Billie Brenner; frock designer Denise Hajjar; art dealer/provocateur Kenn Gray; precious-metal artist Kate Jones; MC Deejay Charles Clemons; the event's originator, Randace Rauscher; bachelor about town Bob Palmer; reprobate around town Bob Gertsen; venture capitalist Paul Nechipurenko; and others too numerous to mention but no less glittery and fabulous. In between munching on little nibbly things, sipping cocktails and bidding on work by local artists, guests got the rare opportunity to catch up and compare summer plans. © 2001 IMPROPER BOSTONIAN
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It
takes no small amount of artistry to attract a large, groovy, good-looking
crowd to a charity fund raiser, especially during the dog days of summer.
probably qualifies the Art of July as some sort of masterpiece.