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Mr. Darcy Lives The dashing literary hero from Jane Austin's Pride and Prejudice is the inspiration for Schumacher's latest collection of wallpapers conceived by Johnson Hartig, the force behind fashion brand Libertine. Mr. Darcy's three-panel set depicts a bird's-eye view of a quaint English hamlet, evoking the meticulous details and hand-colored look of an 18th-century engraving. Hartig has trained his creative lens on two additional wallpaper designs. Mr. Darcy's Clouds is a finely rendered closeup of the cloudscape, and La Forêt is a lush scenic wallpaper inspired by 17th-century Flemish tapestries. Extensively researched and drawn by hand, La Forêt's composition of three 16-foot-tall panels took more than 800 hours to design. Schumacher X Johnson Hartig, at Schumacher. Rebecca Sherman Freedmen's Town Reclaimed 20 Schumacher X Johnson Hartig La Forêt and Mr. Darcy (right) Ann Johnson's You Can't See How You See Me #2: Dr. Johnson, 2025, at Hooks-Epstein Galleries. Ann Johnson's The Excavator, 2024, at Hooks-Epstein Galleries. H ouston artist Ann Johnson, assistant professor of art at Prairie View A&M University and co-founder of PrintHouston, undertook a transformative 2023-2024 residency organized by the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston and the Fourth Ward's Houston Freedmen's Town Conservancy, that took place at CAMHLAB at POST Houston. The interactive residency soon after led to Johnson's latest work, poignant sculptural objects that highlight the artist's printmaking prowess (to date, she's printed on such elusive materials as sycamore leaves, cotton, and time-worn ironing boards). Inspired by the emblematic handcrafted bricks of Freedmen's Town, the artist has created a new series where she imprints figures from the past — as well as visages of members of her own Roux artist collective — onto concrete forms molded to recall those iconic bricks, conflating memory and time in potent elegiac vignettes. $1,500 to $5,000, through Hooks-Epstein Galleries, hooksepsteingalleries. com. Catherine D. Anspon