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October 2015 - Houston

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that most interiors can be improved with heavy editing and the installation of a few special pieces. "Edited interiors are often harder to design because each element demands your attention," she says. In this curation of Lucite, mixed metals, black, white and gilt, the following caught our eye: an oversized Italian giltwood mirror ($9,800), a Louis XVI chaise longue in white linen ($5,800), a pair of velvet Scalamandré Tigre pillows ($375 each) and a Lucite martini table from Liberace's estate ($2,200). Edit, 3637 W. Alabama, 713.840.1400, edit- houston.com. Anne Lee Phillips DECORATION E dit has opened on West Alabama in Hollywood Square, the design-centric center where Lynn Goode Vintage, David Brown Flowers and Tribute Goods reside. Proprietor Kimber Williams' aesthetic is minimal and polished, pairing snowy white upholstered furnishings with a gilded antique mirror or carved Italian side table, and a dash of animal print for texture and color. Her inventory is sourced primarily from Europe and ranges from the 19th century to mid-century, incorporating some new custom furnishings and abstract art. The name Edit echoes Williams' belief Not since "Birth of the Cool" (which traveled to Austin's Blanton Museum of Art in 2009) have Texas museum-goers had such an exciting look at design of the mid-century. This month, "Moderno: Design for Living in Brazil, Mexico and Venezuela, 1940 – 1978" arrives at the Blanton, one of two venues for the exhibition, organized by the Americas Society in New York. The exhibition unveils a ground- breaking view of the south-of-the-border disciples of modernism. Influenced by Bauhaus principles and informed by the cultural flavor of their nativelands, this generation of creatives is well- known to architectural insiders, but not to the wider public. "Moderno," October 11 – January 17, at the Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, blantonmuseum.org. Catherine D. Anspon BLANTON MUSEUM LOOKS SOUTH THIS SIDE OF PARADISE: AULIYA FLORY JENNY ANTILL CLIFTON GILTY PLEASURES We love a glossy front door, lacquered to within an inch of its life, in russet red, country-club green or London townhouse black. Fine Paints of Europe's Hollandlac Brilliant Gloss Enamel has an incredible lacquer-like finish. $60 a liter, exclusively in Houston at Moxie. DOOR Prize Hollandlac Brilliant Gloss Enamel shines up a front door One of the most intriguing stories to come out of Central Texas is the opening of the Hill Country Science Mill in Johnson City. This summer, I paid a visit to this charming hamlet that's the birthplace of LBJ, where blocks away from the presidential homestead a new experiment in science and arts education has reclaimed a former grain mill dating back to the 1880s. The once derelict industrial farming building has now — thanks to the vision of founder/ former biotech scientist and CEO Dr. Bonnie Baskin and her husband, Dr. Robert Elde, retired dean of the leading edge University of Minnesota College of Biological Sciences — metamorphosed into a science museum serving children and families of the surrounding area. (Thomas J. DeAngelo, principal of Minneapolis firm Alliiance was coaxed to Texas by Baskin to serve as architect.) On any given day, classrooms, interactive exhibits (from an explorer zone to creating your own avatar) and installations such as the Fractalarium buzz with activity. But the highlight of my afternoon was peering into the silo where former Houston artist/now Wimberley resident McKay Otto has been working for the past year to create an experience: The Silo of McKays, reminiscent of a chapel with his signature canvas. Known as a creator of vaporous abstractions, Otto's Johnson City commission is a shining achievement. Paired with seven paintings are Tibetan singing bowls, which allow the visitor to recreate the chords of the cosmos (allied with the seven chakras). Turn off the lights, and bask in luminescence. The official reveal of this commission is Saturday, November 14, with an Evening of Art & Science. Tickets $100, sciencemill.org/visit/ upcoming-events/an-evening-of-art- science. Catherine D. Anspon ALL IMAGES COURTESY HILL COUNTRY SCIENCE MILL, JOHNSON CITY, TX McKay Otto at the entrance to his Science Mill installation Hill Country Science Mill, Johnson City, Texas ScienceHeartsArt One of my personal highlights this year was curating "Talent in Texas," a biennial exhibition co-organized by FotoFest and Houston Center for Photography that opens at both venues early this month. Following in the footsteps of smart curatorial eyes such as Kerry Inman, Michelle White, Toby Kamps and Arturo Palacios — with the sage wisdom of FotoFest's Steven Evans and Jennifer Ward and HCP's Sarah Sudhoff and Caroline Docwra — we cast a wide net, then reeled in more than 20 lensmen who are redefining photography, making images, performances, film and new media throughout the state. Without giving too much away, there's a subtext that emerged interweaving landscape, portraiture and still life as metaphor. "Talent in Texas VI: This Side of Paradise," opening Thursday, October 8, at FotoFest and Friday, October 9, at Houston Center for Photography (through November 14); "Finding Our Way" public roundtables Saturday and Sunday, October 17 and October 18, at Winter Street Studios. Details and participating artists, fotofest.org, hcponline.org. Catherine D. Anspon NEW PHOTOGRAPHY IN TEXAS Edit on West Alabama Miguel Arroyo's Pampatar (La Casa), circa 1953, designed for Alfredo Boulton, Margarita Island, Venezuela Jorge Zalszupin's Wall-mounted organizer, circa 1970, at the Blanton COLLECTION FUNDACIÓN ALBERTO VOLLMER, CARACAS COLLECTION R & COMPANY, NYC Michele Grinstead Griffith's Keeshon, 2015, at HCP Lané Pittard's Katie, Age 15 (West Hollywood, CA 2000), at Houston Center for Photography

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