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A national juried exhibit with multiple artists, exhibit dates: January 16-February 13, 2010.  In this exhibit, the second of its kind, I am interested in exploring how writing, words and diagrams interface with contemporary art.  I’m seeking work that is informed by holy texts in particular – illuminated manuscripts and sacred calligraphy. I’m also interested in diagrams, math, and science, from the other side of the spiritual continuum, and how that type of knowledge informs the visual and creative field. 

Artist prodigy Alexandra Nechita, now 24, began drawing at the age
of two and by seven was painting with oils and acrylics. Her first exhibit was a one-woman
(child) show when she was eight years old. She has been labeled as “The Petite Picasso”
by the press, and is said to be the rarest of child prodigies - an artist who mastered drawing
and color, and who created a visual language of her own in a unique, figurative, abstract,
cubist manner -- all by the age of nine. And by age ten, her work was compared to talented
and fully mature artists as she developed a style of her own. Nechita has been recognized
as the official artist of the World Federation of the United Nations, 39th Annual Grammy
Awards, the Polaroid Corporation (50th Anniversary) and the World Peace Music Awards.
Her work has been displayed throughout the world and is in the collections of dozens of
museums and private collections worldwide.

The South Austin Museum will be hosting an exhibition of Bill Narum's work from January 16 - February 27.  Please come  and help us celebrate his art, life, and 63rd birthday and explore the South Austin Museum of Popular Culture which always features the talent that helped make Austin the place we love.

There are related links below the poster image. Event updates will be posted at http://samopc.blogspot.com, and guests can RSVP at http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=240626609183.

 This fall the Blanton Museum of Art at The University of Texas at Austin is pleased to present Paolo Veronese: The Petrobelli Altarpiece.  In 2008, the museum announced an important discovery regarding a work in the Blanton's collection by Venetian master Paolo Veronese (1528 - 1588). Head of an Angel, part of the museum's Suida-Manning Collection, had recently been identified as a fragment of a long-lost masterpiece by Veronese. The identification was made by Dr. Xavier Salomon, a Veronese expert and curator of the Dulwich Picture Gallery outside London. While conducting research for an upcoming exhibition, Salomon began to suspect that the Blanton painting was in fact the head of Saint Michael, the central figure in the so-called Petrobelli altarpiece, created around 1565, at the height of the artist's career.