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Here's our report from VIP Land at the Texas Contemporary Art Fair, which opens Thursday, October 1 (through October 4) at George R. Brown Convention Center. Insider perks, wow … Stoking year five are rare experiences at The Menil Collection usually reserved for the likes of Tilda Swinton or Beyoncé; a Rothko exhibition tour at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, led by curator Alison Greene, paired with a Rothko Chapel brunch; plus trips to some of Houston's very famous private collections, including the just- completed Texas Art House, the cool casa of Bridget and Patrick Wade, and the fabled Fayez Sarofim Collection, which ranks among the Top 200 in the world, according to ArtNews. The Opening Night co-chairs — international queen of Houston philanthropy Becca Cason Thrash and husband John Thrash — ensure that the national and international art world will pay attention. (A few lucky VIPS will also get to party with the Thrashes at a private gathering Saturday, October 3.) Our picks for the most intriguing exhibitors include the Damien Hirst co-founded gallery Other Criteria (a terrific place for shopping for multiples that are democratically priced; ask to see a Hirst butterfly silkscreen) and The Hole, quite possibly the hottest gallery in Manhattan (according to The New York Times). Morgan Lehman showcases Katia Santibañez's dance between the city and country. Other cool contenders feature fine photo fare, such as London artist Julia Fullerton- Batten's cinematic moments at Randall Scott Projects. Meanwhile, Aussie Sarah Bahbah serves up images of models consuming junk food at ZK Gallery. Just announced and recommended: Houston notables Inman Gallery, Gallery Sonja Roesch and Devin Borden Gallery; L.A. dealers Rosamund Felsen Gallery and Charlie James Gallery; and, from across the pond, Cynthia Corbett Gallery, London. All of the above join international design darlings The Haas Brothers in conversation and a curated presentation of Mexico City's leading edge avant-garde spaces organized by Leslie Moody Castro, alongside performances, panels and some unexpected interventions within the Fair itself. Meet you by the Rodrigo Valenzuela installation. Canvas: Insider Preview — TEXAS CONTEMPORARY ART FAIR, YEAR FIVE October 1 – 4, 2015 H O U S T O N txcontemporary.com The Hole's Kathy Grayson COURTESY CYNTHIA CORBETT GALLERY, LONDON COURTESY OF THE HOLE, NYC O ne of the major it-girls of the '90s (you know the ones, those incredibly effortless supermodels known by their first name only), Cindy Crawford sweeps into town Thursday, October 8, to sign copies of her new book, Becoming (Rizzoli, $50), at a cocktail soirée at Forty Five Ten (by invitation only), with signed books available from October 9 onward. Crawford, who turns 50 in February, is unapologetically transparent, allowing us a peek into her fashionable world and guiding us through a timeline of both professional and personal memories. In addition to fascinating anecdotes, Becoming features striking photos of Crawford from top photogs in the industry (Annie Leibovitz, Helmut Newton, Patrick Demarchelier, Richard Avedon, Irving Penn), plus never-before-seen images from the model's personal files. 4510 McKinney Ave., 214.559.4510, fortyfiveten.com. Linden Wilson Becoming CINDY English bon vivant Nicky Haslam is most definitely a decorator of the highest order, with this book, Nicky Haslam: A Designer's Life (Rizzoli, $55) as proof. But erudite Haslam is also an engaging performer and recording artist, known for his literary and artistic pursuits as well as his bits writing about life and society for Tatler, World of Interiors, The Spectator, Vogue and Vanity Fair. Thumbing through A Designer's Life is a tad like perusing a scrapbook, with tons of photographs, sketches, invitations, notes, magazine pages and other ephemera that have influenced and shaped his design career. Haslam is one of the UK's most illustrious designers; his mother, Diana Ponsonby, was a granddaughter of the 7th Earl of Bessborough and goddaughter of Queen Victoria. He was educated at Eton, worked for Diana Vreeland at American Vogue, moved to Arizona to breed horses and returned to England to take up the life of an interior designer, only to propitiously transform the homes of Bryan Ferry, Mick Jagger and Lord and Lady Lloyd Webber. Just our kind of chap. Haslam will speak and sign books at Dallas Design District 2nd Thursday Lectures, Thursday, October 8, 6:30 pm at Scott + Cooner; books will be for sale at the event. RSVP events@dallasdesigndistrict.com with Nicky in the subject line. Scott + Cooner, 1617 Hi Line, 214.748.9836. Mawvelous NICKY Fashion designer Phoebe Philo has finally found a home in Texas. Friday, October 9, Highland Park Village welcomes French fash-pack favorite Céline. The coveted ready-to-wear and accessories will reside in an elegant house of onyx, travertine and Iroko wood — a design reminiscent of Céline's flagship store on avenue Montaigne in Paris. But despite the beige Arenino walls, gray stone floors from Vicenza, furniture designed by Danish artist FOS and pink Portuguese marble jewelry displays, the ready-to-wear, shoes, bags and accessories are center stage. Here you'll find it-bags in scads, from the Trapeze and the Phantom to the eponymous Luggage Tote — now Dallas socials won't have to fly to buy. Claim your own piece of the brand that has pierced the veil and become a mainstay of fashion's elite inner circle. Céline, 10 Highland Park Village, 214.443.0104, celine.com. Francine Ballard BIENVENUE, Céline! J ackson Pollock and Pop art are high up on collector and connoisseur lists. So when both show concurrently in a single museum? That's unbelievable. First, "International Pop" arrives at the Dallas Museum of Art with great fanfare (October 11 – January 17). Organized by the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, it posits a fresh take on the movement that to date has largely been all about the Americans. The show pairs favorite suspects — Warhol, Lichtenstein, Wesselmann, Thiebaud and Ruscha — with those from around the globe that played Pop out in surprising new ways, which often reflected sociopolitical critic devoid of the brash, bold U.S. take on the '60s. Just in: One of I Pop's stars, Ushio Shinohara, represented by Kirk Hopper Fine Art, will enact his storied performance — boxing with paint upon canvas — at the gallery Saturday, October 17, 6:30 pm (free, kirkhopperfineart.com). Five weeks later, the DMA again digs deep and offers us a blockbuster. This time, it's a window into one of the seminal American artists of the Post War era — the man who defined action painting and launched Abstract Expressionism: Jackson Pollock (November 20, 2015 – March 20, 2016). Probing a little-studied period of the painter's career (1951 – 1953), the exhibition culls more than 40 rare works, including some once thought to be missing, coaxed from public and private collections in the U.S., Europe and Asia. This tour de force of scholarship bears paintings, drawings and five of his six known sculptures, where Pollock pushed on through, farther than even his previous drip paintings, to forge some of the most radical art of the 20th century: sublime, sexy black enamel and oil pours on pure, unprimed canvas. Among the most significant exhibitions ever mounted in the DMA's history and organized by senior curator of contemporary art Gavin Delahunty, "Jackson Pollock: Blind Spots" is co- produced by both the DMA and the Tate Liverpool. Dallas is the sole American venue. Info and tickets for both exhibitions, dma.org. Catherine D. Anspon A DOUBLEHEADER AT THE DMA: POP POLLOCK Hans Namuth's photograph of Jackson Pollock painting Autumn Rhythm; Number 30, 1950 MOMA BULLETIN, VOLUME XXIV, NUMBER 2, 1956–57 COLLECTION OF THE ARTIST © NOBUAKI KOJIMA Nobuaki Kojima's Untitled (Figure), 1976 Andy Burgess' Modernist Brazilian House, 2013, at Cynthia Corbett Gallery Céline Luggage Mini in goat fur, $3,900 Céline Cabas in smooth calfskin $2,350 Céline Fall 2015