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OBSESSIONS. DECORATION. SALIENT FACTS. 22 that same double-F logo takes on new symbolism for fall: It goes by the name Fendi Mania, a capsule collection for men, women, and children that launched late last month with the Fendi logo as reinterpreted by Instagram artist @hey_reilly. The new graphic is a nod to the sporty Fendi/Fila logo but takes plenty of high-style cues, popping up on everything from mink coats and fringed bomber jackets to a new Peekaboo bag, pleated dresses for tots, even a sleek watch. At the Fendi boutique, The Galleria, fendi.com. Christina Geyer LOGOS GONE WILD T he double-F Fendi logo, historically speaking, stands for "fun furs" — a monogram that launched during the Italian fashion house's earliest years, when accessories and fur were its mainstays. But, for all intent and purposes W hen the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, announced a show for Texas' greatest 20th-century painter, collectors of the late Dorothy Hood (1918 – 2000) were ecstatic. This time she is paired with the iconoclastic sculptor Louise Nevelson (1899 – 1988). Alison Greene curates and restores Hood to her place in American art Dorothy Converses with Louise: POST-WAR POWER WOMEN at the MFAH history. Following upon the 2016 Hood retrospective at the Museum of South Texas in Corpus Christi, this exhibiton will hopefully place the Houston painter in the limelight for the timeless colorfield/Surrealist artist she is. "Kindred Spirits: Louise Nevelson & Dorothy Hood," at MFAH, November 3, 2018 through February 3, 2019; mfah.org. Catherine D. Anspon Untitled Louise Nevelson's Untitled, 1969, at the MFAH COLLECTION ART MUSEUM OF SOUTH TEXAS, CORPUS CHRISTI COLLECTION ELISABETH AND ALEX TYNBERG. © 2016 ESTATE OF LOUISE NEVELSON / ARS, NYC, PHOTO KERRY RYAN MCFATE, COURTESY PACE GALLERY Menil Drawing Institute | The Menil Collection The Condition of Being Here Drawings by Jasper Johns Open Wednesday–Sunday 11 a.m.–7 p.m. Closed Monday and Tuesday Admission is free. Always. 1412 West Main Street 713-525-9400 menil.org Jasper Johns, Study for 1st Version of Map (Based on Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion Airocean World), 1967. Pastel over Photostat on paper, 30 × 55 1/4 in. (76.2 × 140.3 cm). The Menil Collection, Houston, Bequest of David Whitney. © Jasper Johns/VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY