MICHAEL MCFADDEN
What Carries Forward: Emily Johnson’s ‘Overflow Radio’ at DiverseWorks
A voice travels from one homeland to another, crossing distances without collapsing them. Eighty-four quilts gather beneath a community, each holding the memory of hands, conversations, and questions stitched over more than a decade. Elsewhere, a tree enters the earth; its care extends beyond the lives of those gathered to witness it.
Paper, Skin, Shadow: Exploring Fragility at the Menil Drawing Institute
A needle passes through a sheet of paper and leaves behind a wound no wider than its point. Light catches along the raised fibers. Repeated hundreds of times, these punctures gather into a composition: marks made not by adding material to the surface, but by breaking through it.
Data, Dirty Talk, & Dissent: Mary Ellen Carroll at CAMH
The house turns before anything else does.
The Sea, the Crown, and the Mess of History: Hew Locke’s Passages at the MFAH
Salt-crusted hulls drift through the galleries of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
Reading the Rhythm: Deep Vellum Music & Literature Festival
This July, Deep Ellum, the historic Dallas neighborhood where blues once spilled from clubs into the street and where artists still gather in stubborn defiance of cultural amnesia, will become the setting for a new experiment in collective listening.
A Line, Learning: Cy Twombly at Menil Drawing Institute
There is a moment, standing before a work by Cy Twombly, when language begins to loosen.
The Image Bears Witness: Black Photojournalism Explored at The Carter
A camera moves through a crowd and pauses.
The Hands Shaping Houston: Clutch City Captures the City’s Character at HCCC
Houston has always answered to more than one name. Bayou City, Space City, H-Town, Screwston: each nickname captures a real part of its character, but none can contain the whole of it.
Dreaming in Data: Run the Code at the Blanton
In Run the Code: Data-Driven Art Decoded by Thoma Foundation X Blanton Museum of Art, code does not sit invisibly in the background. It becomes the medium itself: elastic, unstable, and strangely luminous.
Motion & Memory: Dynamic Exhibit of New African Masquerades at San Antonio Museum of Art
It’s been 11 years since painter Francisco Moreno took the local art world by storm with a hot-rod performance in an empty warehouse.
What the Eye Can’t Settle: Rubén Guerrero at the Meadows Museum
The canvas can be a site where architecture tries to remember itself and fails on purpose.