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Give a Hand: In keeping with this issue's Objects theme, we rechristen Art Notes for December. And what better object to focus on than one by hometown hero Nic Nicosia. Dallas-based Nicosia, one of the stars of Erin Cluley Gallery's stable, will be the subject of Cluley's booth at Art Basel Miami Beach (December 3 – 7). While the gallery's Art Basel presentation of Nicosia is dedicated to the artist's photographic series "Real Pictures," created nearly 40 years ago, it's his sculptures that will be the focus in the retrospective "Nic Nicosia: Everyday Surreal" at N a s h e r S c u l p t u r e Center, unveiling May 16, 2026 — timed to be on view during the FIFA World Cup. Our Nicosia object is bighands at ease, 2022, a desk-size work formed from solid cast stainless steel and wax. This surreal and humanistic piece, laced with wit, is emblematic of the artist's shift to sculpture (available from Erin Cluley Gallery, $24,000). As patron Marguerite Hoffman said in 2015, after commissioning Nicosia for an installation in the Tower Room of her private gallery: "Watching Nic create the piece added for me another dimension of respect for his commitment to making art that is provocative, beautiful, humorous, and poignant." Nic Nicosia's bighands at ease, 2022, at Erin Cluley Gallery. Architecture as Object: We've been obsessed with Korean artist Do Ho Suh since 2009, when he stole the show at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, in "Your Bright Future: 12 Contemporary Artists from Korea" with his sculpture Fallen Star 1/5, 2008-2009 — a one-fifth replica of a traditional Korean house that crash-landed upon a scale model of a historic American apartment building. This season, North Texas art-goers can check out one of Suh's brilliant architectural statements about the collision of past and future at the Crow Museum of Asian Art, The University of Texas at Dallas, where his translucent fabric sculpture Hub, 260-10 Sungbook-dong, Sungbook-ku, Seoul, Korea, 2016, holds court. The artist writes about his inspiration for this series on his Instagram: "It is directly based on the entrance gate to my childhood home in Seoul." Measuring (with doors open outward) 117 by 102 by 65 inches, this translucent evocation of memory is formed from polyester fabric and steel. It's one of the showstoppers installed in the Crow Museum of Asian Art at UTD's "Groundbreakers: Post-War Japan and Korea from the DMA Collection" (through July 26, 2026). Catherine D. Anspon Christie Brinkley At the Final Texas Trailblazer Awards Honoring The Family Place A fter almost three decades, the final Texas Trailblazer Aw a r d s L u n c h e o n honoring The Family Place took place at Fairmont Dallas, with the theme "Voices of Hope." The Family Place CEO Tiffany Tate introduced co-chairs Kristen Cobb, Katie Samler, and Ellis Thomas, and Dr. Sabrina Greenlee, founder of S.M.O.O.O.T.H. Inc., led a special mission moment. Jan Langbein, CEO of Genesis Women's Shelter & Support, received the Paige Flink Award for her leadership in empowering survivors, while the Texas Trailblazer Award went to Effie Dennison. Legendary supermodel, entrepreneur, and advocate Christie Brinkley sat down with retired TV journalist Gloria Campos to discuss her book Uptown Girl: A Memoir, where Brinkley reveals the not-so glamorous side of her life Seen: Honorary chair Katy Miller, Jessica and Christopher Brown, Dr. Meredith Abbott, Elaine Agather, Fonda Arbetter, Jody and Mike Coffey, Michelle and Bryan Goolsby, Talisa Attree, Victoria Brown, Stephen Bodwell, Wynne McNabb, Jennifer Burns, Joanna Clarke, Kristy Sands, Kathy Cothrum, Samantha Eppler, Kristin and James Hallam, Alicia and Chris Winn, Machelle Davenport, and Susan Fisk. PAPERCITY PROMOTION Photography Tamytha Cameron Gloria Campos Effie Dennison Christie Brinkley Brian Dennison Kristen Cobb Ellis Thomas, Katie Samler Tiffany Tate Jan Langbein 106