I’m considering films that showed in Cincinnati this past year, so here are my lists, in order of their playing here– a kind of top 20 playlist of films worth seeing. For the near future, Zero Dark Thirty,  by Kathryn Bigelow, and Rust and Bone by Jacques Audiard, (The Prophet) which should come too late for 2012, are the ones I’m most waiting for.

Robert Pulley has found the perfect medium for his sculptures with their allusions to the earth’s geological history: clay, which is just mud, and perhaps symbolic of the primordial ooze of the beginnings of life. The results can be seen in “Standing in Time’s Flow” exhibition on view at the Alice F. and Harris K. Weston Art Gallery through February 17, 2013.

The INDA is an award-winning high-end publication launched as the flagship project for Manifest Press in 2005. The goal of the INDA is to support the recognition, documentation, and publication of excellent, diverse, and relevant works of current drawing from around the world.

Artists Wanted for Showcase on Times Square Billboard in NYC. Participate for Free before December 31st! Calling all artists! Share your work on See.Me – a new creative community – and have a chance at over $125,000 in awards, including a massive billboard display of your work in Times Square, New York City.

I ‘d like to invite you to join in helping to complete an exciting new documentary and arts education project called: Art As Action. This film began one year ago when I decided to make a small personal film about my mother, painter and fabric artist Gloria Torrice.

OVERVIEW: Mystery Build is offering $15,000 in awards to participants who can create something amazing using only the materials in a Mystery Build Kit, without knowing what they will have to work with. You can expect to find some common sculpting materials like wood, clay, metal, fiber, and plenty more. The kits are 12″ x 9″ x 3″ and contain 5 lbs. of materials. All 2013 Mystery Build Kits are identical.

April 1, 2013 THE ARTIST’S MAGAZINE 30th ANNUAL ART COMPETITION More than $25,000 in cash prizes will be awarded, and Top Award Winners will be featured in the December 2013 issue of The Artist’s Magazine! All winners will also appear in a special online gallery. There are 5 categories for you to compete and win. Plus, there’s a Special Student/Beginner Division for new artists.

This exhibit will occupy two gallery spaces at Manifest from January 25 through February 22, 2013 and will be accompanied by a full color catalog documenting the included works. Eligibility: HIGH (realism’s realism) is open to everyone. Professionals as well as students are encouraged to enter. The only limitation is that entries must represent original works of art.

The 3rd annual Light Up Over-the-Rhine (Light Up OTR) is back again, here to celebrate community and the new developments, and the restaurants, and store fronts that make our community a vibrant mecca of posterity.