This week's art openings offer fare for gazers and grazers.

Start with the opening reception for artists Malaika Favorite and David Harmon in the New Space Gallery at Augusta State University from 5 to 6:30 p.m. today.

Mr. Harmon is associate professor of art at Sterling College in Kansas and teaches painting at Savannah College of Art and Design.

Ms. Favorite is an artist, writer and teacher. She is exhibiting a series of mixed media paintings that document local scenes by combining images of old structures and landscapes via photography and paint. She will lecture at 3:30 p.m. in University Hall.

Back downtown, Sacred Heart Cultural Center's Holiday Open House from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. today will be followed by a reception from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. for Women on Paper , a group of artists in the Augusta-Aiken area who are celebrating their 20th year of painting together.

Then, if there's time, head over to the Aiken Center for the Arts where a gallery reception is scheduled from 6 to 8 tonight. Exhibiting in the main gallery spaces are Mary Jane Martin, Gwen Lockhart and Martha-Elizabeth Ferguson . In the Aiken Artist Guild's corner gallery, Sharon Taylor-Padgett is featured this month.

The Art Factory is having an Art in the Attic yard sale from 7 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday at Tinker's Pig Art Studio on Monte Sano Avenue. Proceeds will help fund outreach programs. www.artfactoryinc.org.

TWO events to note are on Nov. 21. The Augusta Chronicle's editorial cartoonist, Rick McKee, will talk about political cartooning and satire during the Morris Museum's Art at Lunch series The program begins at noon and costs $10 for members, $14 for others. Reservation deadline is Wednesday. www.themorris.org

That evening, there will be a gallery reception from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Gertrude Herbert Institute of Art saluting the 14 Augusta State faculty artists whose work is on display. There is a $5 charge for nonmembers.

PAINTING BY NUMBERS: A number that appeared in a recent column about the J. C. Leyendecker exhibit at the Morris Museum of Art raised some interesting questions and created a flurry of correspondence.

Sparking the discussion was the statement that Leyendecker created 322 covers for the Saturday Evening Post , giving him more than any other artist, including Norman Rockwell . A copy editor did some online research and added the number 317 as a total for Rockwell. Reader Kerry Gough , an avid Rockwell fan, questioned the 317 figure and pointed out that 322 and 323 are two frequently cited "official" numbers.

According to the Haggin Museum in Stockton, Calif., originators of the Leyendecker traveling exhibit, Leyendecker produced 322 original cover illustrations for the Saturday Evening Post between 1899 and 1943.

From 1916 to 1963, Norman Rockwell produced 321 original images, some of which were repeated, thus giving him a greater number of covers by raw count. For the record, Web research will turn up several sites that list 317 for Rockwell.

Numbers aside, the Morris's Leyendecker show is well worth a visit for a fascinating look at the art of illustration in the first half of the 20th century.

There's more online at Ms. Claussen's arts blog at blogs.augusta.com