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Art Notes COURTESY THE ARTIST F James Bland's Hall of State, 2007, at Valley View Mall's Gallery at Midtown all in the Texas art world mixes high and low, the beautiful and sublime, the underground, the ridiculous and the activist. Much of the action centers around museums, beginning with the November 27 opening of the Renzo Piano Pavilion at the Kimbell Art Museum … Dallas Museum of Art's triple play is also enticing: Jim Hodges' ethereal installations (October 6 – January 12), the incomparable Edward Hopper's drawing (November 17– February 16) and, up now, a stroll through classical Greece and Rome in "The Body Beautiful in Ancient Greece: Masterworks from the British Museum," which brings Discobolus to town (through October 6) … Nor is the Nasher Sculpture Center to be left out: Buzz is building about the upcoming decade marker "NasherXChange." Hometown participants: the reunited Good/Bad Art Collective from UNT, which is filming an infomercial — you're invited to guest star — in the Bryan Tower downtown; the ad will be broadcast locally and nationally in odd time slots. We're also rooting for Vicki Meek, in dialogue with Paul Quinn College, formerly the historic Bishop College, whose alum include Martin Luther King and Jesse Jackson … Next month, Make Art with Purpose unfurls its ambitious triennial programming, led by director Janeil Engelstad, bringing in everyone from environmental pioneers The Harrisons to shaman Susan Plum … Finally, the Gallery at Midtown is not your usual art space. It's in the reinvigorated Valley View Mall, Preston Road, which thanks to the art element has literally been given a new lease on life. Opening Saturday, September 21, PaperCity photog James Bland collaborates with actor-pointillist painter Kevin Page in "Texas Signs and Places" (through September 27). For more musings, please follow @PaperCityCA on Twitter. Catherine D. Anspon TIME WILL TELL What I'm Craving For FALL Ken Downing senior VP and fashion director, Neiman Marcus PHOTO DAVID HEALD © SOLOMON R. GUGGENHEIM FOUNDATION, NY For those who extol the superiority of Swissmade watches, prepare for a Detroit-style schooling at the hands of Shinola. (Barneys New York jumped on the brand back in June.) The company is known to sell out of its American-made limited-edition timepieces in a matter of days; each is crafted in a 30,000-square-foot state-of-the-art factory within the College for Creative Studies in the historic Argonaut building, originally a laboratory for General Motors. Shinola's bicycles, leather goods and journals get our engine running, too. From $550, at Steven Alan (coming soon to Knox), neimanmarcus.com; shinola.com. Amy Adams Ken Downing James Turrrell's Aten Reign, 2013, Guggenheim New York Billy Fong Sez ... Bearded Stefano Pilati Belstaff I first started this column ranting about this Blaster year's Vanity Fair speaker Best Dressed List. Snooze Hermès Valentino Swift fest. Come on, calfskin it felt like something Hunter cuff for Gucci boots InStyle would have men put together. Brooke Shields? Really? Her stock plummeted when she started • Hunter rain boots in orange. doing infomercials for Latisse and La-Z-Boy. I • Valentino tweed cape. get it: A girl needs to work, but why not head to • Belstaff leather jacket and boots. Tokyo to do tequila commercials? As for Justin • Dior Homme blue sneakers. Timberlake, he's barely out of his Mickey Mouse The two prevailing themes were variations Club days. So many repeats from the past few on the 1990s: sleek minimalism or grunge rock. years: Tom and Gisele, Kate Middleton, Victoria All in all, I prefer the more streamlined look Beckham ... Yes, all very good, but let's see some over the flannel aesthetic reminiscent of Seattle, new folks. There has to be another sibling of although I do love layering when I am feeling Lapo and Ginevra Elkann that we haven't heard particularly svelte in size 28 jeans. For grunge, about yet. Or some obscure Saudi princess fresh don't channel Nirvana and Cobain, but rather out of Brown University or an off-the-radar South Thurston Moore and Kim Gordon from Sonic African who wears Tom Ford with a bush hat. Youth. Both aesthetics offered pant lengths So, instead of getting on my soapbox about appropriate for floodwaters. To make the look Graydon Carter being asleep at the wheel, I complete, wear yours sockless with brogues have opted to wax rhapsodic about the exciting or paired with ankle boots and chunky military season ahead in menswear. Whether it be an socks. And don't forget a pop of color (shades octogenarian oil-and-gas type or an on-the-town of blue to balance out the gray) and/or metal Bravo gay boy, any Dallas man will agree that it's accessories — cuffs, large belt buckles, brass not usually about what you are wearing if you knuckles and, perhaps, multiple brooches have yummy arm candy. For fall, however, we should aspire to look as good as the lady or lad by on your jacket, à la a fashionable cub scout with many merit badges. Also, facial hair is our side. The fall runway offerings were brilliant appropriate for either. and left me inspired to rock many different looks Another accessory I am dying for is a techy for the months ahead. Some pieces you will likely item. I happened upon one when Chris Hite see me in this season include: invited me to attend a men's trend show at • Double-breasted jackets. As fashion forward the Dallas Apparel Mart. We visited the Nixon as I think I am, I was still torn when this trend showroom, and I fell in love with the Blaster re-emerged last fall since it reminds me of speaker in army green. Wireless connectivity with the uniform adopted by Tony Soprano's guys. utilitarian design made of rubber that's practically However, the super-cinched-in tailored versions indestructible — perfection. truly are brilliant. Worn with a T-shirt, they work As Uber continues to ferry me about, I for warmer Indian summer days; paired with a want songs from The Stone Roses and Blur to be denim shirt and scarf, they transition beautifully the soundtrack announcing my entrance. But if into November. • Boyfriend jeans. It started with girls borrowing House of Pain's "Top O' The Mornin' To Ya" starts playing while you are dining on Poulet Cajun at their guys' jeans, and now it's time to take them Le Bilboquet, chances are I'm being shown to the back again. corner table with my swans. Be prepared, I may • Short-sleeved polo shirts layered over approach your party with my recent find, Mad long-sleeved oxfords. Libs, the sexy edition, to request your contribution Some specific items that I'm hoping to score of a verb or noun to a lurid storyline. My strategy before waiting lists are issued: for fall fun. Billy Fong, billy@papercitymag.com • Alexander McQueen black leather polo. • Monsieur Honoré black umbrella with silver skull. © DEREK RIDGERS Diana Vreeland Memos 1 Karl Lagerfeld T H E R E S I D E N T E X P E R T S. Wassily Kandinsky's Accompanied Contrast (Contraste accompagné), March 1935, Guggenheim New York. I'll be reading: AD 2 1. Derek Ridgers' Trojan and Mark at Taboo, 1986, at the Victoria & Albert Museum. 2. Nest Opulence candle by Ken Downing, launching in November. Diana Vreeland Memos: The Vogue Years and Howard Slatkin's Fifth Avenue Style: A Designer's New York Apartment. You'll know me by my scent: Gifting to the girls: Nest Opulence candle by me, launching in November. Sonic Youth, circa 1980 I'll be at: • Karl Lagerfeld's appearance in Dallas December 10, when he shows the Chanel Metier's d'Art collection. This is a fashion moment! • Kandinsky in Paris exhibit (ongoing) and James Turrell exhibit, both at the Guggenheim (through September 25). • Club to Catwalk: London Fashion in the 1980s" at the V&A in London (through February 16). MATHEWS-NICHOL S.COM | 214.350.0711 SEPTEMBER | PAGE 6 | 2013