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PAPERCITY HOUSE LOOKING EAST, A ROOM FULL OF ICE, A NEW WAY OF PAINTING, BEDSIDE GUN LAMPS AND KNOTTED CHAIRS — JUST A FEW OF THE TOPICS SPROUTING AMIDST SPRING'S DESIGN + ART SCENE. DESIGN ART NOTES MARTYN LAWRENCE BULLARD As part of The Houston Design Center's Spring Market event, mega-watt designer Martyn Lawrence Bullard shines his high beams on Houston Martyn Lawrence Bullard at a talk and book signing Tuesday, March 27, 11 am, in the Alkusari Stone showroom (Suite 229) at HDC. Bullard's new tome, Live, Love & Decorate (Rizzoli, $50), has a foreword by Sir Elton John, a client whose penthouse Bullard lavished with a python-skin bed and green-lacquered walls. Bullard has also amped up Cher's Moorish Malibu mansion and Tamara Mellon's NYC penthouse, and he shows us his own Hollywood home, which was once owned by Rudolph Valentino and Gloria Swanson. Catch Bullard on Bravo's Million Dollar Decorator, as well as in town March 27; books will be available for purchase, but space is limited, so RSVP now. The Houston Design Center, 7026 Old Katy Road, 713.862.2660; thehoustondesigncenter.com. COLLECTION THE CORCORAN GALLERY OF ART, WASHINGTON, D.C., © ESTATE OF JULES OLITSKI/ LICENSED BY VAGA, NY, NY STAR Renovator W Jules Olitski's Pink Alert, 1966, at MFAH ART NOTES Inside Track: Here's some of the buzz in the Texas art world this spring. The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston's retrospective for American master Jules Olitski includes his circa-1960 spray paintings — beguiling trails of vapor that seemingly influenced James Turrell (through May 6) ... Movie Night: Collector type Michel Muylle's film debut, Collector's Waltz, is all about the Houston scene, starring headliners such as artists McKay Otto, Nicola Parente, Lucinda Cobley and Joseph Cohen. The engaging doc is currently in post production, but Muylle screened the indie for me one night at his home and studio; in the room was Kristine Mills, whose jazzy riffs serve as soundtrack. Stay tuned for its reveal later this spring. Also in the works are a new cinematic bio of Ima Hogg, our lady of Bayou Bend, with a storyline telling of the littleknown days in Miss Hogg's life before WWI and introducing a long-forgotten beau. The script for Empress of Texas had a recent readings at Main Street Theater, attended by Bayou Bend patroness, Jeanie Kilroy. The film is still in the fund-raising stages and has yet to be shot. Carole Keeney Harrington is securing financing, while Natasha Fissiak oversees casting and crew. For more info, visit empressoftexasfilm. com ... Then it's kudos to Shushana and Jack Castle for coaxing Telluride Mountainfilm to town. The longrunning festival will debut in Houston at Rice Media Center on March 30 and 31. Watch for the screening of Oscar-nominated Roko Belic's moving crowd-pleaser Happy (mountainfilm. org). Coming Next Month: big gallery moves. Catherine D. Anspon e believe everyone in this world has a special gift or talent — perhaps several, if you're fortunate. Bill Caudell is definitely one of the latter. Just one of this stylish man's gifts is his uncanny ability to see a room as few can spatially conceptualize it. Alone as well as with his partner, decorator J. Randall Powers, Caudell has spearheaded the renovation of countless high-rises, townhouses, and city and country dwellings, seeing beyond dated or rundown surrounds to what might one day rise gloriously from their remains. Over the years, Caudell has been enlisted by design pros, friends and friends of friends alike — including my fiancé, William Zeitz, and I as we tackle a renovation project of our own this spring. I was inspired by Caudell's work over the years, such as a 1920s house on Brentwood, a '30s Regencystyle townhouse on Tangle Lane, a '60s modern villa in Kemah and an 1870 farmstead in Woodstock, Vermont, many of which have been published in these pages, as well as in Elle Decor and Veranda. His clients have included a Montrose house on the National Historic Registry, an 1812 King's Grant manor in New Hampshire and a former rickety kit house on Clear Lake transformed with Caudell's help into a stunning custom lake house. I've now witnessed firsthand how this renovation specialist can see beyond a vacant shell (devoid of appliances, kitchen isle and even counters and cabinets) to help create the beautiful, functional kitchen that will one day fill our space. Happily, after much convincing, Caudell has hung a shingle: His rare skills are now accessible to a lucky few who take on the task of renovation or building their dream house from the ground up. For information, contact Caudell at wlcaudell@gmail.com. Laurann Claridge '60s modern in Kemah "The Pope of Trash" GREG GORMAN Star Turn with PAGING MR. WATERS John Waters, the dashing, albeit disturbing filmmaker with the pencil-thin moustache who brought us Polyester (in pungent Odorama!), Pink Flamingos and Hairspray, hits Houston twice this month. "The Pope of Trash," as William Burroughs anointed him, celebrated his hometown, Baltimore, as the land of churchgoers gone haywire, deranged housewives and outrageous drag queens. And now he arrives for his Houston debut with a oneJohn Waters man vaudeville act, This Filthy World: Filthier and Dirtier — a world tour in which Waters delivers a monologue on some of his fave trashy topics. This Filthy World will be performed for one night only at DiverseWorks Wednesday, March 14, subverting the nonprofit's spring gala as DW's main fund-raiser. (For sponsorship packages, including dinner with Waters, e-mail new executive director Elizabeth Dunbar, elizabeth@diverseworks.org. Very limited seats for the performance and cocktail are $250, through Megan Batson, 713.223.8346.) The next evening, discover a side of Waters you never knew: the serious artist. The art endeavors of the brilliant Prince of Bad Taste have earned him exhibitions from The Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh to the New Museum of Contemporary Art in NYC. Now he makes a stand with a medley of sculpture and photography at McClain Gallery, opening Thursday, March 15 (through April 14). What's a given? We'll be bringing in a pink flamingo for Monsieur W. to sign. Catherine D. Anspon Marcelyn McNeil's Yoke, 2012, at Anya Tish Gallery Joe Mancuso's Such a Lovely Garden (detail), 2012, at Barbara Davis Gallery PAINTER'S PROGRESS While we're mad for the Jules Olitski painting survey at the MFAH, one can look closer to home this month for au courant examples of ground-breaking painting. Case in point, Joe Mancuso's swirly, whirly whorls of latex encased in resin, reminiscent of a couturier's lace à la Chanel, has us swooning due to its implied fashion reference (Barbara Davis Gallery, March 2 – May 5). Then another Houston-based talent, Marcelyn McNeil, continues her investigation into 21st-century abstraction. Fresh from a residency at the MacDowell Colony in New Hampshire, McNeil strips her palette to a handful of colors, unfurled in looping swaths of oil and gesso on curvaceous layers of paper (Anya Tish Gallery, March 2 – 31). Catherine D. Anspon HIP HOP 1920s Brentwood house Irv Tepper's Rex the Rabbit, 2011, at Art Car Museum FRANKLY FotoFest collides with art cars at the Art Car Museum. Catching our eye is the audacious imagery of lensmen Irv Tepper and Maurice Roberts, a reprisal of the pair's solo shows at the Nave Museum in Victoria, respectively in 2010 and 2011, curated by the iconic Ann Harithas (March 16 – June 17). Catherine D. Anspon the 18th century to the present. Verma's corner focuses on painted furniture; also on our radar are Amitha Verma has gathered 25 designers Denise Schneider, antique and home-design dealers Will Egerto and Beverly specializing in European products, Shaeffer's design-forward many of them French, into her new selections and Gracie Wilkins' antiques co-op, Village Antiques, slipcovers and pillows. 1200 on Blalock. The 6,000-squareBlalock, 713.468.3931; village foot space features pieces from antiques.net. Laurann Claridge FRANCOPHILE