ATLANTA -- James F. Cooper, Founding Director of the Newington-Cropsey Cultural Studies Center and editor of American Arts Quarterly will speak on The Return of Realism: Art, Truth and Beauty on Thursday, November 2 in the Skylight Gallery of Oglethorpe University Museum of Art at 7:00 p.m. A dessert reception will follow the lecture.

Oglethorpe University Museum of Art is proud to debut Slow Painting: A Deliberate Renaissance now through December 17. This groundbreaking exhibition explores a new art movement focused on highly skilled figure painting harkening back to the Old Masters of Europe.

Slow Painting: A Deliberate Renaissance brings together over 40 contemporary paintings and drawings by 22 artists. These New Realism artists intend to lead contemporary art into the future. With its attention to detail and beauty, slow painting is very rapidly gaining recognition as a bold new movement and is being lauded as New York’s new FAST.

The museum is open Tuesday through Sunday from noon to 5:00 p.m. Guided tours are available Sundays at 2:00 p.m. Free and ample parking is available. Exhibition and lecture admission is $5 per person; museum members, children under 12 and the Oglethorpe community are free. For more information please visit www.oglethorpe.edu (keyword: museum) or call 404.364.8555.