By Fran Watson

Every millennium should start off with a freebie. Thank goodness the TAFT MUSEUM OF ART sees it that way, too, and has tacked on free Sundays to its usual free Wednesdays. This means those intimate chamber concerts (also free) on Sunday afternoons are freer than ever. Next up is the Venezuelan string quartet Cuarteto DeCuerdas America on Feb. 6. 241-0343.

WEXNER ART GALLERY satisfies all creative yens with aplomb. It's a full menu of art, including Drawing from Perception III, a juried biennial national drawing exhibit of 60 pieces chosen from 230 submissions by juror, Rosemarie Beck of the New York Studio School. Site specific work by Ernesto Neto, mail art by Ray Johnson and etchings by Paul Resika round out a menu that makes the short hop north worthwhile. 614-292-3535.

Yours truly did the SUZANNA TERRILL MARATHON DRAWING MADNESS last year and had a great time drawing and socializing. That event was held in her studio. This year, Terrill takes it on the road and includes Cincinnati Ballet and Over-the-Rhine plein aire drawing. Saturday from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. with a silent auction on Jan. 28 , a percentage of sales to benefit Impact OTR. 665-4500.

The late PAUL RIBA, whose work opens on Saturday at Cincinnati Art Galleries, made crisp, clean realistic objects and landscapes through the '60s and '70s, an era which abandoned that oeuvre. But good art is good art, and trends are fleeting. People are getting smarter about art, realizing that what looks good probably is, in spite of printed pundits. Riba had been included in an invitational at MOMA in New York and at the New York World's Fair of 1939, more than enough to make him a collectible part of the past century. 381-2128.

Fill out the day on Saturday with a really nice painting exhibit opening, 7:30­9:30 in the evening by JOE KIEFER at Risch Gallery. A three-person show held there about two years ago made me sit up and notice the newcomer, who sure looks like a winner. This is his second solo show at Risch since then. 441-3838.

Get that ART ACADEMY 2000 CALENDAR! Six Cincinnati area artists are among the 12 students featured, all done up in world class graphics by C.J. Krehbiel Co. 721-5205.

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