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DECORATION Louis Vuitton and Yayoi Kusama Collection Louis Vuitton Yayoi Kusama window Gallery BOOM Not in almost a decade has the art scene exploded with such envelope-pushing new gallerists. Stay tuned next month for the scoop on a promising pair of Design District newcomers Circuit 12 Contemporary and Red Arrow Contemporary. We���ll also be covering the game-changing Oliver Francis Gallery and edgy project space The Reading Room, important Fairground arrivals who restore some avantgarde energy to East Dallas. September exhibition schedules: circuit12.com; oliverfrancisgallery. com; thereadingroom-dallas.blogspot.com; redarrowcontemporary.com. Catherine D. Anspon COURTESY THE ARTIST AND CIRCUIT 12 CONTEMPORARY Dot MATRIX It���s the most memorable marriage of fashion and art since Louis Vuitton enlisted Takashi Murakami for a 2002 collaboration (which reached its apex with a 2007 show at L.A.���s Museum of Contemporary Art that saw the building of a full-on Louis Vuitton boutique in lieu of the typical museum store). Now, LV���s artistic director, Marc Jacobs, has commissioned a talent well-known to art-world insiders, if not yet the general public: the tantalizing Yayoi Kusama. This Japanese-born octogenarian lived and worked in NYC during the heady ���60s, where she painted, rubbed shoulders with Warhol, was praised by Donald Judd, was the paramour of Joseph Cornell and staged wild happenings, including a nude romp in Central Park, where she decorated the skin of fellow participants with her pervading dot imagery. The artist then entered a period of obscurity. When she moved back to Japan in the ���70s, she admitted herself into the Tokyo mental hospital where she still lives, albeit leaving daily to work in her nearby studio. Her last big moment was a solo show at MoMA in 1998. Now she���s back with a touring international retrospective that began at the Reina So���a in Madrid, traveled to the Pompidou in Paris and the Tate Modern in London, and concludes with a ���ourish at the Whitney Museum of American Art this summer (through September 30). But it���s arguably Louis Vuitton���s project with Kusama that will imprint her yellow-and-black and redand-white dot obsession on the popular consciousness. Watch for the artist to take over LV store windows worldwide, coinciding with the launch of an intensely covetable collection of ready-to-wear, shoes, watches, jewelry and leather goods including the statement bag, which is the tip-top of this scribe���s wish list for an entrance-making arrival at any art opening. (FYI: Kusama also has a Texas connection. In 1997, Houston���s Rice Gallery mounted one of the ���rst American shows for the rediscovered artist, and top Texas collector Lester Marks owns a pair of dot-covered Yayoi mannequins.) At the Louis Vuitton boutique; louisvuitton.com. Catherine D. Anspon You���d Better HOOF IT Michael Dotson���s Daze Off, 2012, at Circuit 12 Contemporary Walk This Way: DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER Etruscan table Twig mirror and Twig lamp Small and medium African tables As part of its September auction season, and in a bow to Fashion���s Night Out on Thursday, September 6, Martin Lawrence Galleries��� Dallas Galleria location will showcase a Pop king and a lot of glitter ��� diamond dust, to be precise. The hand-signed silkscreen by the late Warhol bears an image of a half-dozen high-fashion pumps in the most totally awesome 1980s jewel-tone shades. Price upon request, through Martin Lawrence Galleries, Dallas; information Sylvia Wilkins, swilkins@ martinlawrence.com; additional Warhol offerings auctioned this month, martinlawrence.com. Catherine D. Anspon G rowing up in San Francisco, Brian Bolke had always admired John Dickinson���s iconic white plaster furniture, often identi���able by chunky animal legs, nature-inspired details or African motifs. Now, Bolke, owner of Forty Five Ten, is partnering with showroom impresario David Sutherland to bring these spare-yet-whimsical pieces to those outside the trade via his McKinney Avenue store. Sutherland (who has long represented the collection and was working with Dickinson to develop a more resilient material at the time of his death) collaborated with Dickinson���s estate to produce each piece out of reinforced concrete, rendering them usable indoors and out. This is the ���rst time that Dickinson���s pieces have been available at retail, and also the ���rst such collab for David Sutherland. Fourteen Dickinson designs are currently available; a few more will be added in the years to come. Etruscan table, $2,900; Twig mirror, $3,600; Twig lamp, $1,860; small African table, $1,940; medium African table, $2,340, at Forty Five Ten. Amy Adams Andy Warhol���s Shoes #254, 1980, at Martin Lawrence Galleries