PRESS RELEASE Media Contact: Trudi Smith 713.752.0314 ext. 103 buffalobayou.org Carlos Cruz-Diez at the Cistern: Spatial Chromointerference Outstanding art program for Houston’s historic reservoir continues Opens to the public – Saturday, May 12, 2018 HOUSTON – April 11, 2018 – Building on the success of its inaugural art installation, Buffalo Bayou Partnership (BBP) is proud… Read more »
Activating and Connecting Six Sites along Buffalo Bayou in the East Sector SATURDAY, April 7, 2018 WHAT: Buffalo Bayou Partnership (BBP) recently launched a major planning effort to bring a new network of waterfront parks and open spaces along Buffalo Bayou’s East Sector, stretching from US 59 to the Port of Houston Turning Basin. … Read more »
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. Explore exhibitions by architectural designer Jae Boggess and students of the UH School of Art. Both of these exhibits feature buildings and landmarks located east of downtown Houston along Buffalo Bayou, which is relevant to Buffalo Bayou Partnership’s newly launched East Sector master plan. This major planning effort along… Read more »
Rain: Magdalena Fernández at the Houston Cistern Presenting the artist’s 2iPM009 from the series Mobile Paintings, 2009 HOUSTON – November 1, 2016 – Buffalo Bayou Partnership (BBP) and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH) will co-present the inaugural art installation in the Buffalo Bayou Park Cistern, a 1926 underground city reservoir that BBP restored,… Read more »
Buffalo Bayou Partnership transforms historic former underground drinking water reservoir into a public space Commissioned art work, Down Periscope to be unveiled HOUSTON – May 10, 2016 – Buffalo Bayou Partnership (BBP) will debut the Buffalo Bayou Park Cistern, a renovated architectural relic, on Friday, May 13, 2016. The Cistern, reminiscent of the ancient Roman… Read more »
Houston artist Anthony Thompson Shumate recently installed “Monumental Moments,” a series of six human-scale word sculptures in Buffalo Bayou Park. The single word thoughts – Explore, Pause, Reflect, Listen, Emerge, and Observe – are placed at ground level in unexpected areas along the new bayou-side Kinder Footpaths. The four-foot-tall sculptures feature turn-of-the century capital serif… Read more »
At various points along the banks of Buffalo Bayou, there are thoughtful, recognizable pieces of public art. You have likely seen the Jaume Plensa Tolerance sculptures at Montrose/Studemont lit up at dusk, the bronze Henry Moore Spindle sculpture near Eleanor Tinsley Park, or the Open Channel Flow by Matthew Geller near the skate park. In… Read more »