The first ever Houston Fine Art Fair is scheduled for Sept-15-18, 2011. According to the advance press, 80 galleries will fill the George R. Brown convention center. Ancillary events will include seminars, artist and collector interviews and roundtable discussions in an on-site theater. Produced by Rick Friedman’s Hamptons Expo Group Management, which also produces ArtHamptons; ArtAspen, and the San Francisco Fine Art Fair, and directed by art advisor Fran Kaufman, the new event hopest to, in the words of Mayor Annise Parker, “establish Houston as a respected and must-attend, regular stop on the national and international fine art fair circuit.” Participating galleries are TBA.