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Bead IT. If Montrose Boulevard is on your daily drive, you'll spot, come October, a highly intriguing piece that interweaves art, craft, architecture and social sculpture. After all, when was the last time you glimpsed 350,000 beads enveloping the sides of a gleaming two-story metal building? Credit Selven O'Keef Jarmon. The Houston- born artist/designer who has devoted much of the past decade to fashion-based community endeavors in South Africa, has imported a brigade of old-school crafters from the Eastern Cape of South Africa to bead a beautifully meaningful skein to grace Art League Houston. Check artleaguehouston.org for updates and to volunteer as a beader. Catherine D. Anspon Selven O'Keef Jarmon's 360° Vanishing, coming to Art League Houston Mourning en- semble, detail umbrella, circa 1870 BROOKLYN MUSEUM COSTUME COLLECTION AT THE MET, GIFT OF BROOKLYN MUSEUM, 2009, AND MARTHA WOODWARD WEBER, 1930 W omen in Black. I love to wear black, only black (white in summer), so I'm intrigued by The Metropolitan Museum of Art's upcoming show, "Death Becomes Her: A Century of Mourning Attire" (October 21, 2014 – February 1, 2015). Widows' weeds? Perish the thought. Some of the costumes, with ostrich feathers flying, are truly celebratory. Curator-in-charge Harold Koda takes a risky route, offering the juxtaposition of high fashion and death in this funereal but glamorous fall exhibition at the Anna Wintour Costume Center. Among the elaborate veiled ensembles are those worn by Queen Victoria and Queen Alexandra, plus hues trending to gray and mauve. metmuseum.org. Diane Dorrans Saeks BLOCKBUSTER BOOK. The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute exhibition is an annual blockbuster with subjects ranging from Chanel and Alexander McQueen to last year's exploration of punk. The museum, in tandem with Vogue, kicks off the exhibition each year with a soirée that draws in the fashion, art and entertaining elite and leaves us outsiders refreshing every social media outlet for a glimpse into the fairy- tale eve. Small wonder the most fashionable table tome of the season is Vogue and The Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute: Parties, Exhibitions, People (Abrams, $50) This work underscores the Costume Institute's history and exhibitions, with photos from Vogue fashion shoots inspired by exhibitions past, gala party pics and more, all collected under the watchful Vogue eye of Hamish Bowles (editor at large), Anna Wintour (artistic director of Condé Nast and editor in chief) and Chloe Malle (social editor), along with museum director and CEO Thomas Campbell. Megan Pruitt Winder TO NYC, PRONTO. All the president's men — 40 years later. The fierce and fearless journalists who brought down the Nixon presidency take the dais in one of Brilliant Lecture Series' most anticipated evenings, taking place 40 years after Watergate. Tenenbaum & Co. and Donna and Robert Bruni step up as presenting sponsors. "A Conversation with Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein" brings the Pulitzer Prize-winning former Washington Post reporters to town to dish "Inside the White House: From Nixon to Obama." Thursday, September 25, at Wortham Theater Center; general tickets from $55; VIP Reception tickets $250 (includes champagne reception, premiere seating, autographed book, digital photo); private seated dinner $500; 713.974.1335, brilliantlectures.org. Catherine D. Anspon T he "El Greco in New York" exhibit at The Metropolitan Museum of Art — a combined show from collections of several museums that have his work (November 4, 2014 – February 1, 2015), is the largest U.S. show to date. (The Frick Collection is displaying his work at the same time.) Greg Fourticq Jr. Cardinal Fernando Niño de Guevara (1541–1609) Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward, back in the day The series that took us up-close into artist studios returns for season seven when Peabody- garnering Art21 airs on PBS on four consecutive Fridays this fall (October 24 – November 14, 9 pm Central Time). Among the dozen creatives highlighted are five with Texas ties: Leonardo Drew, Omer Fast, Katharina Grosse, Joan Jonas and Wolfgang Laib (of the ritualistic installations employing beeswax and pollen). These talents have all had major solos at Dallas, Houston or San Antonio museums. Catherine D. Anspon Wolfgang Laib FALL LEAVES The late September release of designer Jean- Louis Deniot's first book, Jean-Louis Deniot: Interiors by Diane Dorrans Saeks (Rizzoli, $85). He's genius, and I considered stalking his office when I randomly passed it when last in Paris. Aaron Rambo The Museum of Modern Art's fall lineup is reason enough for a jaunt to Manhattan. Catch glorious but under-known Matisse cutouts, including The Swimming Pool (1952). Fresh from the conservation lab and on view for the first time in 20 years, it originally graced the dining room of the artist's apartment in Nice. If Matisse weren't enough, there's the creepy Robert Gober (a Surrealist for our time) of the disembodied, often melting limbs, probed in his first large-scale survey ever. Gober, October 4 – January 18, 2015; Matisse, October 12 – February 8, 2015; at MoMA, New York; moma.org. Catherine D. Anspon ULTIMATE DOUBLE HEADER. TUNE IN: ART 21 3 FAIRS, 8 DAYS IN SEPTEMBER. I ncredibly, three fairs ignite September with compelling contemporary art, antiques and design. Ready, set, collect! Texas Contemporary Art Fair, produced by Art Market (the organizers of one of Miami's very best fairs during the heady Art Basel week), rolls into town for year four right after Labor Day, September 4 through September 7, at the George R. Brown Convention Center (txcontemporary.com; see our insider preview, page 32). A mere 10 days later, collectors will flock to two more acquisition meccas. Also in its fourth year, Houston Fine Art Fair — organized by Hamptons Expo Group, whose other fair franchises include productions in Aspen and the Silicon Valley — returns to NRG Center (formerly Reliant) September 18 through 21 (houstonfineartfair.com). Concurrently, antiques and decor denizens will head to the George R. Brown, September 19 through 21, for the rebranded Houston Antiques + Art + Design Show. Formerly known as the HADA Show, the 50-year-old event has been refreshed by Dolphin Promotions, which also created the acclaimed Palm Springs Modernism Show (houstonantiquesartdesign.com). Catherine D. Anspon David Aylsworth's Fine Fin and Haddie, 2014, at Inman Gallery, at the Texas Contemporary Art Fair. G andhi Gazing + Grazing. How we yearn for a contemplative fall — serene, quiet and uneventful. Well, not really. But having an oasis is so important. So we're turning to The Menil Collection, where director Josef Helfenstein, in collaboration with Amar Kanwar, curates "Experiments with Truth: Gandhi and Images of Nonviolence." Afterwards, I'll head to Bistro Menil to savor chef Greg Martin's cuisine in the Stern and Bucek- designed space and bask in the new sustainable Michael Van Valkenburgh-designed green gateway punctuated by the return of that beloved giant Jim Love jack. "Experiments with Truth," October 2 – February 1, 2015; Bistro Menil opening September. Catherine D. Anspon A rendering of the new Bistro Menil Ferhat Özgür's Police, 2011, at Deborah Colton Gallery, at the Houston Fine Art Fair Robert Gober's Untitled, 1991 COURTESY THE ARTIST AND MATTHEW MARKS GALLERY Gandhi's last possessions, 1948. Photographer unknown, at The Menil Collection