MICHAEL MCFADDEN
The Stories We Carry: Angelica Raquel: Mystic Threads at the McNay Art Museum
Stories first live in the body. They prickle across the skin as goosebumps, catch in the throat as a gasp, and move along a family line, changing slightly with each retelling. A good story lingers, reshaping memory and place so that a river, a vacant lot, or a patch of brush never feels quite the same again.
From Pop to Pokémon: The House of Pikachu at Asia Society Texas Center
In the House of Pikachu, Memory Speaks in Color.
Making & Becoming: The Glassell’s Block Program Celebrates 10 years with Two Shows
In a city like Houston, one vast, improvisational, and definitely plural, artists often find their footing not through institutions, but through the communities that rise between them.
It used to rain in my TV: Lines of Resolution at the Menil Drawing Institute
Nam June Paik’s faint inscription, It rains in my TV as it rains in my heart, drifts between a drawing, a poem, and a weather report.
Tensions of Time and Remembrance: Zalika Azim at UT Visual Arts Center
In Zalika Azim: Blood Memories (or a going to ground), the ground is never just ground; it is a witness and a griot, a surface that keeps score of what passes over it and what takes root.
Storied Objects: Gil Rocha at Galveston Arts Center
The objects in Gil Rocha’s work—beer cans, hand-painted signs, plastic bags, sun-faded photographs—arrive with their own stories.
Dreams Walking in Broad Daylight: Sandy Skoglund at the McNay Art Museum
Dreams often bend the ordinary into the uncanny: cats glow, fish take flight, trees grow restless and run.
City in the Sky: Gyula Kosice at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston
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.
Nothing is Ordinary: Hillerbrand+Magsamen at FotoFest
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.
Presence, Absence and a Certain Tension: Timothy Harding Redefines Space
In Timothy Harding’s paintings, there’s a kind of friction at play, a low hum between precision and improvisation, between gesture and grid, between what is seen and what is suggested.
Caught in Motion: Robert Rauschenberg at the Menil
A curtain lifts. A dancer moves across the stage, costume fluttering around graceful limbs.