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OBSESSIONS. DECORATION. SALIENT FACTS. 18 N inety gallerists descend upon Dallas this month from L.A., New York, San Francisco, Dublin, Berlin, Detroit, Dubai, Tokyo, Paris, Florence, Brussels, Mexico City, London, Bogotá, and Madrid. They're coming to present their wares in arguably the best boutique art fair outside New York or Miami: Dallas Art Fair. Smythson these dates for year 11: Preview Benefit/Opening Night, Thursday, April 11; main fair, Friday through Sunday, April 12 through 14. The action takes place in the heart of the Dallas Arts District at Fashion Industry Gallery. With exhibitors such as London power trio Sadie Coles HQ, Lisson Gallery, and Blain|Southern,traveling to Texas for the first time, year 11 promises to be exceptional. A dozen dealers turn their booths into solo shows for artists, showcasing works such as Tim Bavington's hypnotic color striping at Morgan Lehman and Juno Calypso's staged self-portraits at Division of Labour & TJ Boulting. London-based Calypso might just be our favorite find FAIR FEVER DALLAS ART FAIR YEAR 11 for her photographic setups in odd environments that address femininity and desire. Also, pay attention to the contingent of Houston dealers: Inman Gallery, McClain Gallery, Nancy Littlejohn Fine Art, and Sicardi | Ayers | Bacino. Houston-based former MFAH Core Fellow Bill Davenport also travels to Dallas to reprise his Bill's Junk at Talley Dunn Gallery's pop-up. dallasartfair.com. Catherine D. Anspon D ecades before globalism held sway, Francesco Clemente was mining moments, scraps of memory, and elusive fragments from ancient civilizations. During the 1980s, Clemente created Neo-Expressionistic paintings that commanded notice and established then unheard-of prices. It's fitting, then, that Dallas Contemporary director Peter Doroshenko places Clemente front and center for the DC's opening that coincides with Dallas Art Fair week. The artist's solo will be unique in its specificity to Dallas: Clemente takes as his subject the Trinity River and its mid-19th-century utopian settlement — La Réunion. The epic installation is composed of four wall paintings crafted by Oaxacan sign painters, paired with a six-piece suite of cast-aluminum sculptures. The Dallas exhibition will be the first monumentally scaled installation of Clemente's art in North America. "Watchtowers, Keys, Threads, Gates," April 13 – August 18, at the Dallas Contemporary, 161 Glass St., Dallas, dallascontemporary.org. Catherine D. Anspon A RIVER RUNS THROUGH IT C all it Texas' most anticipated fashion e x h i b i t i o n s i n c e Jean Paul Gaultier's retrospective at the Dallas Museum of Art in 2011. Next month, the DMA opens another, "Dior: From Paris to the World" — the first major U.S. retrospective on the fashion house founded by Christian Dior in 1946. News broke late last year that the show's second and final stop would be Dallas. Organized by the Denver Art Museum's curator of textile art and fashion, Florence Müller, the exhibition is robust, featuring a historical examination of Dior's haute couture, accessories, photographs, original sketches, and runway video footage. Spanning generations, the exhibition traces Dior's impact on the world of fashion, from his revolutionary New Look collection, which debuted in 1947, to the influence of the contemporary artistic directors — Yves Saint Laurent, Marc Bohan, Gianfranco Ferré, John Galliano, Raf Simons, and Maria Grazia Chiuri, who leads the fashion house today. The DMA stages an entirely new architectural and design installation than the show in Denver. "Dior: From Paris to the World," May 19 – September 1, at the Dallas Museum of Art, 1717 N. Harwood St., Dallas, dma.org. Christina Geyer DIOR, IN FULL MEASURE Installation, "A Nomadic Life: Francesco Clemente in China," at Springs Center of Art, Beijing COURTESY SPRING CENTER OF ART, BEIJING Juno Calypso's A Clone of Her Own (detail), 2017, at Division of Labour & TJ Boulting, Dallas Art Fair COURTESY THE ARTIST AND TJ BOULTING Christian Dior, 1948