BY FRAN WATSON

"I told you it wouldn't work," "Go to hell" and finally "DiLeia is Dead" reads the card announcing the end of DiLEIA GALLERY, cum workshop, cum cutting edge performances. Closing award ceremonies, featuring "the unholy love-child of Larry Flynt and Marge Schott," took place July 4 at the establishment's Massachusetts Avenue location. However, in case you missed the whole thing (gallery and finis), there's still a Web site at www.cmc.simplenet.com. Even though most of their publicity releases were too late for publication, I'll miss their humor, and we'll all miss another art center on the city scene.

Our Midwest art competitions are about to take a giant leap forward. ROBERTA SMITH, New York Times art critic has been announced as juror for the 1999 WHITEWATER VALLEY ANNUAL ART COMPETITION, Nov. 6. Keep tuned for facts when they get here.

Kettering, Ohio, portrait artist, PAUL MELIA, is once again offering his special prices on portraits, those painted from the model or from photograph, if preferred. We're talking a 50 percent cut here, people, for a once in a lifetime special occasion gift. Sale runs through July and August. 800-646-0699.

It was a shaky opening for MICHAEL SHARP's solo show at GALLERY SCULPTURA last Thursday. Owner TONY PARNIGONI opened shop to find the entire block between Walnut and Vine on Seventh Street closed off and full of fire engines called to a minor blaze across the street from his new gallery, while somewhere out there in the completely halted downtown traffic his first one-man show sat, unable to be delivered to the gallery. Openings are fraught with minor disasters, anyway, but this one will offer a real hallmark for both Sharp and Parnigoni.

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