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It seemed as if half of Lexington was there, with not a parking space to be had. I should have just parked downtown and taken a bus.


The Loudoun House, a huge castlelike Victorian house, was a mob scene. Artists, city officials, politicians, lawyers, doctors, a few journalists and the usual party people paid dearly to sip champagne and nibble on little cocktail sausages, crudités and assorted hors d'oeuvres and view the top nude photographs, drawings and paintings in this year's competition. And, yes, there were live nudes (upstairs and to the right).


Party-goers mixed, mingled and chatted as they checked out the 45 artworks selected from 775 works submitted from around the world. The juror, New York art gallery director Jay Gorney, said of the art work: “Some good, quite good.” He took me into the Zygmunt Gierlach Gallery and pointed out his favorite work, Centaurs, a pen-and-ink by Wendy Currier of Georgetown.


Currier is a retired special education teacher who taught in Lexington, Frankfort and Georgetown. She didn't start working seriously on her art until after she retired a few years ago: “I just decided I'd enter the competition,” she said.
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