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C alling all designers, architects, landscape designers, and furniture and product designers. It's that time again: The annual Houston PaperCity Design Awards, a celebration of design creativity and innovation, is now accepting entries. Houston design professionals, regardless of affiliation, are encouraged to enter projects across 19 categories for residential, office, retail, historic preservation, outdoor, garden, furniture, and product design. The Design Awards cocktail event to announce the winning entries will be Monday, May 15. Winning entries will be published in the October 2017 PaperCity Home + Art issue (print circulation 60,000, and 900,00 page views per month online, Houston and Dallas combined). The panel of national design judges includes L.A.-based Martyn Lawrence Bullard and NYC designer Mark D. Sikes, with additional judges to be announced. Explore the 2017 Houston PaperCity Design Awards categories and submit your entries at papercitymag.com/ designawards. Entry period closes Sunday, April 16, at 11:59 pm CDT. For information, contact Farrell Lawo, farrell@papercitymag. com, 713.986.0005. ENTER the PaperCity Design Awards GAGOSIAN and Friends at Dallas Art Fair COURTESY THE ARTIST AND MOTHER'S TANKSTATION LIMITED, DUBLIN Noel McKenna's Grey Cat beside stove, 2016, at Mother's Tankstation Limited, exhibiting Dallas Art Fair COURTESY THE ARTIST AND MIER GALLERY, LOS ANGELES Louise Bonnet's The Daisy, 2016, at Mier Gallery, exhibiting Dallas Art Fair OBSESSIONS. DECORATION. SALIENT FACTS. I f you're interested in visual culture or starting a collection, or if your sights are set on making the Artnews Top 200, clear your calendar for April 6 through 9, for Dallas Art Fair. Year nine promises to be packed with importance and surprises, with nearly 100 galleries — including three dozen arriving from London, Bogota, Dublin, Amsterdam, Brussels, Paris, Monterrey, Geneva, Madrid, San Juan, Dubai, Berlin, and Tokyo — and more than 30 new exhibitors. Biggest news to date: Global brand Gagosian Gallery, with its estimated $1 billion in annual sales, makes its first Fair appearance. The lineup also includes independents such as Workplace Gallery (founded in Gateshead, UK) and The Green Gallery from Milwaukee. Returning Dallas dealers Barry Whistler Gallery, James Cope's And Now, and Erin Cluley Gallery exhibit alongside notables Skarstedt Gallery (home to '80s-era rediscovered figurative master David Salle) and Galerie Perrotin, again showing international it-artist Daniel Arsham, who mines history, natural science, and archaeology in his dystopian sculptures and installations. Another factoid: Awol Erizku, the MoMA-exhibited artist from Ethiopia who snapped Beyoncé's sensational Instagram "pregnant with twins" image, is represented by newcomer Night Gallery from L.A. The best way to navigate the Fair is to acquire the insider-y Patron Pass ($500), which offers early admittance to the Preview Gala (Thursday, April 6) and daytime shopping before opening night, tony collection tours, lectures, the very cool Eye Ball (Saturday, April 8), and Dallas Contemporary Members Opening bash (Friday, April 7). Dallas Museum of Art, Nasher Sculpture Center, and Dallas Contemporary are beneficiaries of the Preview Gala: Will go-go Larry Gagosian be in attendance, rubbing shoulder with Fair co-founders Chris Byrne and John Sughrue? That's the question of the day. Details, schedule, tickets, exhibitor list, dallasartfair.com. Catherine D. Anspon