Old master drawings have a reputation for being a closed world. The founders of Trois Crayons want to prove the opposite. Until October 13, their first multi-city Drawings Hub opens in Houston with "On Paper: Drawings from the Renaissance to the Modern Day."

Maud Ruby is a Paris-based plumassière, a feather artisan, who also works with fabric flowers. Trained as a fashion designer, pattern maker and milliner, she learned her craft the traditional way, at the bench of Maison Legeron, one of the last historic Parisian houses of feathers and flowers, which notably created the Yves Saint Laurent dress covered in roses worn by Laetitia Casta, and which closed its doors in 2021. Today she works for fashion houses, interior designers and private...

Gerardo Rosales is a Venezuelan artist who has lived and worked in Houston, Texas, since 2000. He creates paintings, murals and installations populated by hybrid figures that weave together myth, folk culture and political narratives, from the syncretic legends of Venezuela to the realities of displacement and migration. He painted "Sirenario" during his summer residency in Ménerbes, in the Luberon. He tells us about the creation of this work.