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Two of the biggest art stories we have been tracking these last three weeks have now converged — the re-opening of Nancy Littlejohn Fine Art and the sudden departure of Bill Arning, the director of the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston.

A game-changing gallery that was part of the downtown revival in the late 1990s and early 2000s is relaunching in River Oaks. Nancy Littlejohn Fine Art has been on hiatus for more than a decade and is now set to reopen in a prime spot at 3465 B West Alabama, around the block from Found.

Margo Sawyer, the Elgin-based artist whose art intersects sculpture and architecture, has won a coveted Guggenheim fellowship.