It is an overwhelming, tantalizing, world-class immersive art experience. After four hours at the Dallas Art Fair, here’s what we saw and loved: an epic Ed Ruscha at the top of the stairs (from John Berggruen Gallery, which was also well stocked with some beautiful Wayne Thiebaud dessert canvases); an Incan frog tray at William Siegal Gallery, circa 1400 ­­– 1532 A.D.; a classic Henry Darger scroll painting, alongside contemporary visionary artist Amanda Smith in Andrew Edlin’s space; a show-stopping, monumental, gleaming Anish Kapoor sculpture at James Kelly Contemporary plus Sharon Core’s chromogenic photographic prints inspired by 19th-century American still life paintings; a trove of Texas photorealist painters at Artspace 111; Rachel Hovnanian’s extraordinary investigation of beauty told via an array of diverse media, including a towering marble sculpture as well as a video of an actual pageant, at Jason McCoy; Dunn and Brown’s smart booth, with offering by Trent Doyle Hancock, Helen Altman, Tara Donovan and David Bates (including an intriguing bronze still life that resembled a wooden folk art sculpture); a vaporous Natvar Bhavsar canvas that evoked the cosmos at Sundaram Tagore Gallery; Donald Moffett’s otherworldly oil on linen paintings that have a texture that begs to be stroked, while suggesting a lunar surface, complete with holes that resemble craters; and a magnificent suite of autumnal woodblock and collage prints by Judy Pfaff at Tandem Press. Whoa! And we’re still taking it all in. Tonight is the Preview Gala; stay tuned for our Morning After report tomorrow. Close to 800 collectors, dealers, curators and press will be in attendance, and we expect the energy to go through the roof at Fashion Industry Gallery, where the Dallas Art Fair holds court. (Shown: Wayne Thiebaud's "Three Cupcakes" detail, 2009, at John Berggruen Gallery.)