Art exhibits and contests to celebrate the 2012 transit of Venus:

• TROVE Art Exhibit, featured transit of Venus art show in the mezzanine art gallery of The Livery microbrewery in Benton Harbor, MI; May 6-June 30;
  
• Transit of Venus in Pastel, in the Harris Branch Library in Granger, IN, May 1-June 9;
• PHM Transit of Venus Art Contest, for student artists in the Penn-Harris-Madison School Corporation, IN; May 3-31.
• Transit of Venus Stained Glass Window Contest (online), from JINA/NDeRC at University of Notre Dame; entry deadline: Feb. 18.
  

http://soho.nascom.nasa.gov/hotshots/2002_08_29/
The Sun as Art exhibit toured during the 2004 transit of Venus.

http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/sunearthday/2004/vt_edu2004_venus_back_mus.htm
Music and literature, with emphasis on John Philip Sousa.  From GSFC Sun-Earth Connection.

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/html/venus/venus-home.html
John Philip Sousa's Transit of Venus March; includes score, audio, and sheet music.  From US Library of Congress.

http://www.archive.org/stream/transitvenus00sousgoog/transitvenus00sousgoog_djvu.txt
Complete text of John Philip Sousa's 1920 novel, The Transit of Venus.  From Internet Archive.

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"Moved by a Rapid Transit" by Chuck Bueter; a paper from the Inspiration of Astronomical Phenomena V (INSAP V) conference, summarizes the many facets of art inspired by the transit of Venus; Chicago, IL; June 28, 2005.

http://christiesinternational.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?intObjectID=5379488
John George Brown's 1883 painting The Transit of Venus sold at Christie's for $122,500.00 in December 2010.  The oil on canvas appeared in black and white on the cover of Harper's magazine, depicting children looking at the transit of Venus through a broken piece of glass that had been smoked.

http://arvindparanjpye.blogspot.in/2012/02/sketching-transit-of-venus-8th-june.html
Sketchings of the 2004 transit of Venus reveal visual highlights as Venus crosses solar limb; by Arvind Paranjpye.

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/html/venus/venus-othermusic.html
Collection of other 18th and 19th century music related to the transit of Venus.  From Library of Congress, Music Division.

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Song by New Zealand folksinger Willow Mackey, which she composed for 1969 bicentennial of James Cooks voyage.  From Guy Ottewell.

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The Croston Carvers built a monument to honor Jeremiah Horrocks near the site from which he first observed the Transit of Venus.

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Art exhibit at Glance Eyewear Gallery celebrates the transit of Venus in preparation for the 2004 event. 

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Stained glass windows in St. Michael Church in Hoole, England, celebrate the transit of Venus through the centuries.

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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., writes The Flaneur, a poem about an amateur astronomer who charges people in Boston Common a dime to look at the 1882 transit of Venus through his telescope.

http://web.williams.edu/astronomy/eclipse/transits/images/historic%20pics/1874/poem.html
Poem: The Transit of Venus, from Punch, or the London Charivari; December 19, 1874.

http://www.elizabeth-harris.com/Pages/G_Astronomical.html
Transit of Venus Textile Art by Elizabeth Harris. From the private collection of Susan Riley.

http://mailchristies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?intObjectID=5379488
The Transit of Venus, by John George Brown (1831-1913).  Price realized at December 2010 auction: $122,500.  Color image appeared as black and white print in Harper's magazine.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/shy-shaman/3986157442/in/set-751217/
Transit of Venus Art on Flickr set by SHY.

http://www.platypusart.com/wetherell/sculpture_venus.html
Transit of Venus sculpture by Tim Wetherell; now part of the University of Western Sydney permanent art collection.

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=2286
“Venus Transiens” by Amy Lowel.  From The Complete Poetical Works of Amy Lowell. First Source: Poetry (1915).

http://www.paintingsilove.com/image/show/129819/transit-of-venus
Transit of Venus Art; by Paula Hallman.

http://www.worldlingo.com/ma/enwiki/en/Transit_of_Venus_(play)
Transit of Venus; play by Maureen Hunter.

http://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/poets/hope-a-d/the-transit-of-venus-0144007
The Transit of Venus, poem by A.D. Hope; from the Australian Poetry Library.

http://www.amazon.com/Truth-Study-Center-Minoru-Shimizu/dp/3822846406
Truth Study Center by Wolfgang Tillmans; the photographer's collection of works "shows us another side of the world we live in today,...from evocative nude studies...to astronomical views of planet Venus passing over the disc of the sun...(in) pursuit of impossible truth." 

http://intransit.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/04/18/in-rome-art-meets-astronomy/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=tumblr
In Rome, a new Esperimenti called Transit of Venus blends projection and displays,  a collaboration between Alda Fendi of the fashion house of the same name.