Michael McFadden is a Houston-based writer and arts administrator. He holds an MA in Arts Leadership from the University of Houston's College of the Arts and has worked extensively with the Houston arts community. Learn more about him at pugintheair.com.

MICHAEL MCFADDEN

Self-Taught Art: Works from the Stephanie and John Smither Collection at The Menil

MICHAEL MCFADDEN·August 9, 2016

On view at the Menil Collection through Oct. 16, As Essential As Dreams: Self-Taught Art from the Collection of Stephanie and John Smither borrows its title from the idea that the desire to create and collect is a deeply rooted human instinct.

Houston Visual Art

flow: Jae Ko at CAMH

MICHAEL MCFADDEN·June 23, 2016

Downstairs at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, the Zilkha Gallery is a cold space. When it’s empty, the bare white walls and concrete floor can make it feel like an icy cavern buried deep in the Tundra. It’s a suitable place for flow, the latest in a series of site-specific installations by Jae Ko called Force of Nature, on view through September 18, 2016.

Meditations on Love, Art, and Life: Yayoi Kusama at the MFAH

MICHAEL MCFADDEN·June 17, 2016

The name Yayoi Kusama often conjures images of polka-dots spreading out into the infinite, and the odd pumpkin.

SHEILA PEPE invites SONDRA PERRY—Put me down Gently: A Cooler Place + I’m Afraid I Can’t Do That

MICHAEL MCFADDEN·June 14, 2016

“It’s very much like a drawing,” Sheila Pepe began. “Things are drawn, laid down, erased, moved. It’s all influenced by the architecture of the space.”

Houston Visual Art

Reclaiming History: Where the Ranch Actually Was at Devin Borden Gallery

MICHAEL MCFADDEN·March 8, 2016

Those living on the sidelines of traditional (read: white/heteronormative/etc) in the United States must constantly struggle to maintain their histories.

Visual Art