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97 We are in theMood ART+DECORATION … to spend some time with interesting art — and see what Michael Chow (Mr. Chow, to those of us who hung out in NYC in the '80s) is bringing to town for Texas Contemporary art fair. What makes painter Vincent Valdez the recorder of our fraught times? Designer Garrett Hunter wows with his floating white apartment. Picasso seduces this fall. Two new decorating books, from Michelle Nussbaumer and Mark Sikes, enchant. And the art fairs runneth over, with Houston Art Fair, Texas Contemporary, and Houston Antiques + Art + Design all showing wares though the month of September. Gallerist Robert McClain debuts his periodic column covering top art fairs sited around the world. And the dashing Prosper Assouline comes to town and thoroughly charms us.