The Nevada Motel dares to disturb, with its Atomic Period architecture, turquoise green door frames, and jolting patio floors. Tonight, there is a change of venue here at the instigation of 3S ArtSpace of Portsmouth. Streamers cover the railings on the second floor with an array of colors mixing and flitting in the coastal winds. People driving around Long Sands Beach slow to look at the creation, this last outpost in the quiet town. Twenty-one rooms are flung open to the crowds, and it’s the artists’ (15 visiting, six local) will to do with them what they may, one per room. This art-happening shows these rooms can be so much more than warped paneling and singing faucets.

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