By Fran Watson

After pronouncing the DUVENECK MEMORIAL ART SHOW the Best Kept Secret in our "Best Of" issue, here's the when and how of the 2000 event: Sunday, May 14, from noon to 5 p.m. (rain date: May 21) at George Rogers Clark Park on Riverside Drive in Covington, a 10-foot space is $25, a 25-foot space is $40. All recent original work in painting, sculpture, graphics and fine crafts is acceptable Cash prizes. Deadline for entries: May 1. Info: (606) 581-0165. Try it. You'll like it.

A free lecture by PETER EISENMAN, designer of the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin (and the fabulous Wexner Center at Ohio State University) happens on Thursday at 6 p.m. in Room 100 of the art building on Miami University campus in Oxford. His subject: issues of death and remembrance as motivations for design. Info: (513) 529-7210.

Miami is also the site of paintings by the 10 finalists in the University's first YOUNG PAINTERS COMPETITION, exhibiting at the Hiestand Galleries through April 7. The winner of the $10,000 William and Dorothy Yeck Award will be announced at a reception on April 3. Jurors are Toni Laboiteaux, Robert L Kurtz and Ernesto Montes. We need more like this. Info: (513) 529-1883.

One success deserves another, so the second annual FT. THOMAS FINE ARTS FESTIVAL is scheduled for June 25 where the sun don't shine, (the rain either) inside the Tower Park mess hall. Weather is no factor in this one. David Dalton, Risch Gallery owner, has scheduled this one for the least wear and tear on artists, between 12-6 p.m., one day only, and the kids can get involved in art workshops throughout the day. E-mail: rischgallery@hotmail.com or call 441-3838.

Christie's DEAN FAILEY will talk about how Americana furniture pieces have been treated on the auction block in recent years. It's one of the programs being conducted to better explain our early American decorating tastes. Until you see the Master-pieces of American Furniture from the Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute at the Cincinnati Art Museum, Americana just may be a whole other world, one you may have a piece of and not even know it. The free lecture at CAM is Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. Info: 721-ARTS.

Quick Draw tries to keep things light, but sometimes sad things happen which must be mentioned. The death of NORM MILLER last week is one of these. Owner of Miller Gallery in Hyde Park for 40 years, during which time he was much more than a good businessman. He was a friend to his stable of artists, and an advocate who was always on the side of good art. He juried shows, supported the art community and gave more than one local artist a deserving start. This truly gentle man will be missed.

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