MICHAEL MCFADDEN

A city floats a mile above the earth. Transparent modules glint with water vapor, neon pulses like a heartbeat, and the promise of a different kind of life hums in the air. This is The Hydrospatial City, the centerpiece of Gyula Kosice: Intergalactic, on view Oct. 26-Jan. 25, 2026 at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston.

There is a certain charge that comes when artists insist that the stuff of daily life, its toys, its rituals, its messes, belongs on the same stage as monuments and masterpieces.

A curtain lifts. A dancer moves across the stage, costume fluttering around graceful limbs.

This is how Tomashi Jackson: Across the Universe, on view at Contemporary Arts Museum Houston through March 29, 2026, begins—or how it continues.

In the attic of memory, objects slip out of time: A letter filed away, a photograph without a name, a clay koala bear made by a child and placed on a shelf.

In 1978, around 4,000 LGBTQIA+ Houstonians convened at the Astro Arena. 

When an artist allows it, their practice can become all-encompassing, blurring the lines between practice, spirit, and the world around them.