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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 FOUND TO THROW OPEN ITS NEW DOORS. A Nip & PIN TUCK Geo H. Lewis' redesign Furniture for MODERN-DAY 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 T he powers that be at Geo. H. Lewis & Sons, Houston's final resting place for the famed and social set since 1936, have refashioned the public areas to mirror a stunning residence. The venerable funereal firm has commissioned Houston interior designer Cathy Chapman to renovate its interiors with a little help from GHL VP Bradford Wyatt's stylish mom, Lynn Wyatt, who also consulted with her son and GHL president/CEO Billy Wells on the apropos choices. While we hope you won't need to visit the revamped surrounds any time soon, those who do will find comfort in the English antiques, Imari and Wedgwood porcelain, wideplank wood flooring and Clarence House and Brunschwig & Fils curtains and trims. We're impressed by the thoughtful touches, from an antique silver service from which one is offered coffee and tea to Pratesi and D. Porthault linens customembroidered expressly for Geo. H. Lewis. Laurann Claridge Brent Bruni Comiskey's Heart + Star, 2011 PC Acquire 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 art-rock-noise band Diamond Shamrock and published 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 Comiskey's "Shoot for the Stars" series, navigate papercitymag. com/Arts. Inquiries Seth Vaughan, 713.524.0606, ext. 239; seth@papercitymag.com. NEWLY MINTED: PEVETO C hange in the art word is always good. And nothing revives a stalwart lineup of dealers like a new arrival. Enter Peveto on Colquitt's Gallery Row. The man at The Bru Rondo club chair the top, Scott Peveto, has been in the Houston art by Ensemble London world for more than a decade, most recently at one of the key players at McClain Gallery, where he brought a focus on Texas artists and Cindy Sherman's Untitled #96, 1981, at MoMA and CAMH emerging talent to that Richmond Avenue power player. Now Peveto has branched out on his own, tapping recent colleagues Leigh Manley and Felipe Contreras to join him. The trio has taken over the former New Gallery/Thom Andriola digs (where did Andriola go? More on that on these pages). Architect Shane Cook was enlisted to revive the space, the key and pivotal anchor of the Arquitectonicadesigned allée of galleries. The result? A front window that was formerly boarded over is now revealed to flood a viewing room with light. The fluid and more pleasantly open 4,000-square-foot floor plan also features zones of privacy, as well as a cool office area where sleek desks suggest the efficiency of a visual hive. At Peveto's grand opening — owner director Peveto bills himself as a fine art resource management company and plans to "transform the idea of an exhibition" — a bevy of next-generation collectors rubbed shoulders with respected talents such as CAMH-exhibited Jason Villegas (one of Peveto's discoveries) and two-time Whitney Biennial talent Trenton Doyle Hancock, whose NYC-based friend William Villalongo was included in the opening show "Game On" (through April 7). Also on our radar from their stable: the late Virgil Grotfeldt's son, Andy, whose deft mixed-media and foil canvases are compelling and concise; Alejandro More than any other American artist, she redefined photography and moved it from Diaz's buoyant a lower rung to the upper echelons of the art stratosphere — including the image shown on Scott Peveto, Leigh Manley, neon phrases; this page, Untitled #96, which set a record when it sold last May at Christie's for an incredible Felipe Contreras with Greg Miller's The Searcher, 2011 and long$3.89 million. She has also been a figure on the front lines of a radical rethinking of the power time Peveto of self-portraiture. Can you name her? If you said Cindy Sherman, you are correct. That's pal, West why serious art denizens are making pilgrimages to take in one of the year's most provocative Coaster Andy retrospectives, "Cindy Sherman" at New York's Museum of Modern Art. Go see how the Moses, whose work that began with black-and-white untitled film stills in 1977, measuring a modest 8 by 10 paintings recall inches, forever changed contemporary art. Next spring, the Sherman show arrives at the the L.A. Light Dallas Museum of Art for the fourth and final leg of its national tour. And hurry, Sherman is and Space closer than you think. Catch the final days of the feminist exhibition narrative "The Deconstructive movement. Impulse" at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, where a cache of Shermans steals 2627 Colquitt, the show. In a perfect coincidence, the artist's CAMH PA comes almost 32 years to the day of her 713.360.7098; first-ever museum show, which was organized at the CAMH by the trend-spotting Linda Cathcart, who mounted "Cindy Sherman: Photographs" in February and March 1980. "Cindy Sherman," peveto.org. at MoMA through June 11; at the DMA March 17, 2013 – June 9, 2013. "The Deconstructive Catherine D. Impulse: Women Artists Reconfigure the Signs of Power, 1973 – 1991," at CAMH, through Anspon April 15. Catherine D. Anspon SHERMAN'S Brigade NASH BAKER