CowParade Round Up Golden Belt Arts 10 a.m.–4 p.m., Aug. 18 Paula MacLeod has grout in her hair. The Durham-based mosaic artist steps back to survey the white flank of a cow sculpture, covered ...

To sum up "Art People and a Cow," Portland artist and designer Jim Riswold's latest exhibition at Augen Gallery: He's not that into nuance.

But of this, he feels sure: The more than 40,000-year-old art in this remote cave in Indonesia -- the oldest figurative painting ever found -- represents an important turning point in human history.

With their year 5 and 6 peers, they have created a life-size painted cow that has become Dairy Australia's new mascot. Toolamba Primary School, about 17 kilometres south of Shepparton, was one of ...