I was chatting this afternoon with Gus Rancatore, owner of Toscanini’s (and all-around model citizen of Cambridge). After bantering a lot about MIT—he misses his Student Center location “dearly”—I inquired into the whereabouts of Alejandro Siña and Spinning Box.
Rancatore lit up like a bulb. “Hold on, let me get my bag!”
He emerged from the kitchen with a big color brochure. “I almost forgot, but they have an exhibition running right now on Newbury Street and it’s going to be over in just a few days!”
Rancatore is a huge fan of Alejandro and Moira Siña’s single-electrode neon. So much, he says, that his Harvard Square store was designed around the twirly neon work he commissioned. Spinning Box is presently in storage, but the artists’ efforts can also be seen at the Cambridgeside Galleria and the Red Line platform at the Alewife T station.
Anyone interested? The show, called “Light Up Your Night,” ends this weekend.

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