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WE'RE GAZING AT NEW ARCHITECTURE, TAKING IN ART, TOOLING THROUGH TOWN IN A GUCCI-MOBILE, ACQUIRING AN OBJECT OR TWO, AND WAITING FOR JONATHAN TO OPEN HIS DOORS. Anxious for Adler Furniture for MODERN-DAY If brightly colored lacquer trays, whimsical white pottery and mod furnishings by Jonathan Adler are what you seek for the abode, brace yourself: The decor genius opens a shop later this month at 4525 McKinney Avenue, in the same block as Mitchell Gold + Bob Williams and Abacus. The 2,300-squarefoot boutique will stock all of Adler's pillows, rugs, pottery, notecards and furnishings. Preview the goods at jonathanadler.com. Christina Geyer Brent Bruni Comiskey's Green Alert, 2012 MONARCHS COLLECTION MOMA, NY; GIFT OF CARL D. LOBELL; © CINDY SHERMAN 2012 Range Rovers. The queen. The Concorde. If it comes out of England, we're yampy for it. The list just grew by one: Ensemble London, a fresh, refined collection of sofas, chaises, tables and chairs. Their silhouettes may say old-school England, but their execution is thoroughly modern. (After all, the line is part of Hutton Home, as in the late John Hutton, as in Donghia's still-original aesthetic.) There are minimalist club chairs that lean way back, sleek side tables that totter on curvy legs and architectural case goods that pare all those fussy English chests and consoles down to their straightlined essences. In fact, it's exactly what Kate and Wills would put in a modernist manor: Think Sir Norman Foster, not Sir Christopher Wren. Ensemble London, to the trade at David Sutherland Showroom; ensemblelondon.com. Rob Brinkley Brent Bruni Comiskey's Heart + Star, 2011 PC Acquire The Bru Rondo club chair by Ensemble London Cindy Sherman's Untitled #96, 1981, at MoMA This month's PC Acquire talent is one of our most multifaceted to date, manifesting a rock 'n' roll vibe that marries street photography à la Garry Winnogrand with the fashion eye of Terry Richardson, plus a dose of '70s-era grunge and glam tossed in. Meet Brent Bruni Comiskey, a native Texan known for his passion for indie music — he's a founding member of the experimental artrock-noise band Diamond Shamrock and publishes the alternative '90s music mag Thora-Zine — but mostly as the man with the lens. For decades, Comiskey's documented the odd, the random, the nonsensical and the beautiful, from Tokyo to Paris, plus his own EaDo Houston neighborhood. Now from a cache of more than 100,000 images, we cull a collection of 24, offered in suites of three archival prints. You curate your personal trove of three. Each limited-edition image is 16 x 20 inches; a mini portfolio trio is $995, or acquire the complete collection of 24 images for $4,995. All images are mounted upon acrylic and ready to hang. To view Bruni Comiskey's "Shoot for the Stars" series, navigate papercitymag.com/Arts. Inquiries Seth Vaughan, 713.524.0606, ext. 239; seth@papercitymag.com. WELCOME HOME, D. Porthault SHERMAN'S Brigade More than any other American artist, she redefined photography and moved it from a lower rung to the upper echelons of the art stratosphere — including the image shown on this page, Untitled #96, which set a record when it sold last May at Christie's for an incredible $3.89 million. She has also been a figure on the front lines of a radical rethinking of the power of self-portraiture, as well as the interweaving of film and its cultural influence, all while subverting its stereotypes. Can you name her? If you said Cindy Sherman, you are correct. That's why serious art denizens are making pilgrimages in droves to take in one of the year's most provocative retrospectives, "Cindy Sherman" at New York's Museum of Modern Art. Go see how the work that began with black-and-white untitled film stills in 1977, measuring a modest 8 by 10 inches, forever changed contemporary art. Can't get to Manhattan? No worries. Next spring, the Sherman show arrives at the Dallas Museum of Art for the fourth and final leg of its national tour. "Cindy Sherman," at MoMA through June 11; at the DMA March 17, 2013, through June 9, 2013. Catherine D. Anspon APRIL | PAGE 33 | 2012 We cried a thousand Parisian tears when D. Porthault shuttered its Highland Park Village doors; we sang Linen Boutique owner Joanne Walgren's praises when we learned she picked up the entire D. Porthault collection of sheets, towels, lingerie and accessories. Known for mixing prints and embroideries, in both classical and whimsical styles, D. Porthault has graced the abodes of Coco Chanel and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, and royals such as the Duchess of Windsor. Drop in Walgren's Lovers Lane shop to pick up something for the boudoir or the baby in the identifiable "trefles" (four-leaf clover) or "coeurs" (heart) pattern — two favorites amongst Dallas fine-linen aficionados. Linen Boutique, 5600 W. Lovers Lane, 214.352.5400; linen-boutique.com. Brooke Hortenstine