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I n the spirit of unity, "Together" is the title for this year's Black Tie Dinner gala — the country's largest single-night LGBTQ fund-raiser. Since its inception 36 years ago, the gala has raised more than $21 m i l l i o n f o r North Texas H I V / A I D S and LGBTQ organizations, p l u s t h e Human Rights Campaign. On Saturday, November 11, at the Sheraton Dallas Hotel, the megawatt evening will honor Reverend Eric Folkerth and playwright Terrance McNally. Judith Kasen-Windsor accepts the Elizabeth Birch Equality Award on behalf of her late wife, Edith Windsor, a longtime LGBTQ rights activist. Neon Trees lead singer Tyler Glenn and Emily Koch, star of the Broadway musical Waitress, will entertain, alongside Christie's auctioneer Robbie Gordy. Eric Fanning, 22nd Secretary of the Army and the first openly gay man to lead any branch of the military, will encourage the gala's message of equality as a contributing speaker. Black Tie Dinner, Saturday, November 11, Sheraton Dallas Hotel, 400 N. Olive St.; information and tickets, blacktie.org. Linden Wilson OBSESSIONS. DECORATION. SALIENT FACTS. A grand center table brimming with vases of roses, hydrangeas, tulips, purple hyacinth, and poppies is a charming sight when you enter Avant Garden's new shop, but Todd is in the details. Todd Fiscus, that is — the extraordinary event magician of Todd Events, who for 15 years has been the maestro of Avant Garden, which was located in Highland Park Village just up the street from its new setting in The Shops at Highland Park. Fiscus decided a larger space — 3,000 square feet, to be exact — was in order for his flower shop, and the result is all about flora and fauna and the beautiful arrangements he's famous for, but now there's a well- appointed mix of objets as well, staged in a setting inspired perhaps by a fine European library and an orangerie. Alexa Pulitzer's stationery, jotter pads, and paper goods; porcelain vases by Rosenthal; clever paper placemats 22 If BUNNY MELLON Lived in DALLAS and tumblers from Plat du Jour; and oversized Limoges matchbooks are pretty gifts to ponder while you order your blooms. Avant Garden, 4254A The Shops at Highland Park, 214.559.3432, avantgarden.com. Christina Geyer F i l m a n d v i d e o d e f i n e contemporary practice — just ask 2017 Nasher Laureate Pierre Huyghe. But few exhibitions have been devoted to a deeper understanding of new media's pioneers and permutations. This season, the Dallas Museum of Art opens the vault of its significant film and video collection, which was begun nearly two decades ago. It focuses on works by 10 artists from its collection, plus another 14, in the exhibition "Truth: 24 frames per second" (a title is borrowed from French cinematist Jean-Luc Goddard). Curated by the DMA's Gavin Delahunty and Anna Katherine Brodbeck, the show was proposed for our fraught time, as truth and alt truth, facts, and distortion blend and converge. Texas audiences will relate to the screening of a freshly restored version Video VROOM! of late L.A. master Bruce Conner's Report, which probes the assassination of JFK, as well as the U.S. premiere of Irish filmmaker John Gerrard's Western Flag (Spindletop, Texas), an evocation of the early days of the oil biz — but one manufactured from 21st-century gaming technology. James Coleman's retro Untitled, 2011-2015, features imagery of a child's carousel while employing extinct Kodak Carousel slides to craft its LED video installation. Don't miss Willie Doherty's unsettling Ghost Story, 2007, which mediates on memory and murder, the power of place, and the landscape. The works span six decades and Black Tie STAR POWER spin around three filmic techniques — documentary, appropriation, and montage — screened in special viewing chambers carved out of the first-floor Chilton and Hoffman Galleries. The sleeper of the show, Ant Farm's Media Burn, which displays a Cadillac crashing through a pyramid of TV screens, is an apt metaphor for today's tuned-in and screened-on age. "Truth: 24 frames per second," at the DMA, through January 28, 2018; dma.org. Catherine D. Anspon JOHN CAIN SARGENT COLLECTION DMA. COURTESY THE ARTIST AND GLADSTONE GALLERY, NYC AND BRUSSELS. © SHIRIN NESHAT. PHOTO LARRY BARNS. Shirin Neshat's Soliloquy, 1999, at Dallas Museum of Art COLLECTION DMA. COURTESY BERKELEY ART MUSEUM AND PACIFIC FILM ARCHIVE. © ANT FARM (CHIP LORD, DOUG MICHEL, CURTIS SCHREIER WITH TOM WEINBERG). PHOTO © 1975 JOHN F. TURNER. Ant Farm's Media Burn, 1975, at Dallas Museum of Art Terrance McNally Avant Garden Tyler Glenn COURTESY THE ARTIST AND SIMON PRESTON GALLERY, NYC AND THOMAS DANE GALLERY, LONDON. © JOHN GERRARD. James Gerrard's Western Flag (Spindletop, Texas), 2017, at Dallas Museum of Art