Memorial Park s Eastern Glades sends a green holiday message
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Memorial Park s Eastern Glades is lit up for the holidays through a partnership with Green Mountain Energy that is matching the electricity used with renewable energy credits.Memorial Park Conservancy / Memorial Park ConservancyShow MoreShow Less
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Memorial Park s Eastern Glades is lit up for the holidays through a partnership with Green Mountain Energy that is matching the electricity used with renewable energy credits.Memorial Park Conservancy / Memorial Park ConservancyShow MoreShow Less
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Memorial Park s Eastern Glades is lit up for the holidays through a partnership with Green Mountain Energy that is matching the electricity used with renewable energy credits.Memorial Park Conservancy / Memorial Park ConservancyShow MoreShow Less
Behind the scenes at Seismique, Houston’s new interactive playground
Now you don t have to travel to Meow Wolf in New Mexico to see a large space to immerse yourself in an interactive, multimedia fairgrounds.
Molly Glentzer December 21, 2020Updated: December 23, 2020, 9:18 am
Seismique’s guides Felicia Berrios, left, 28, and Sara Ludwig, right, 36, stands surrounded by projections that change to the beat of music, Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2020, in Houston. Photo: Marie D. De Jesús, Houston Chronicle / Staff photographer
Experiences such as Houston’s new Seismique, which opens Dec. 26, are the most dynamic Instagrammable locations of the 21st century.
Built into the shell of a former Bed, Bath & Beyond big box on Houston’s far west side, the 40,000-square-foot sci-fi fantasy playground is opening with 33 rooms. More are coming, say co-founders Steve Kopelman and Josh Corley. They commissioned the immersive, interactive environments from about 50 artists.
An abridged Nutcracker is the highlight of the company s virtual holiday program
Molly Glentzer December 21, 2020Updated: December 22, 2020, 11:10 am
Houston Ballet s Naazir Muhammad brings some Nutcracker acrobatics to one of the dances of the company s on-demand Nutcracker Sweets performance. Photo: Lawrence Elizabeth Knox / Lawrence Elizabeth Knox
The best thing about “Nutcracker Sweets,” Houston Ballet’s on-demand virtual holiday program, turns out to be the element I least expected to enjoy: An abridged video of artistic director Stanton Welch’s “The Nutcracker.”
Archival films of big ballets have not been a satisfying replacement for live dance this year. They are typically shot from a distance, with a stationary camera or two, because that’s all the dancers’ unions used to allow.
You can now take a gander to see Meander and Yellow Glow
Molly Glentzer December 15, 2020Updated: December 21, 2020, 11:22 am
A cyclist rides on the White Oak trail through Francesca Fuchs’ “Yellow Glow,” an artwork commissioned by the MKT developers for the underpass at N. Shepherd and 6th Street. Photo: Marie D. De Jesús, Houston Chronicle / Staff photographer
Public art serves many good purposes, but heading into a somber winter, projects that lift moods are especially welcome.
Francesca Fuchs’ “Yellow Glow” and Falon Mihalic’s “Meander” cheer up those who encounter them while mirroring the landscape in intriguing ways. Unrelated yet complementary, both new works also embrace Houston’s relationship with concrete and can be seen during a bike ride or a hike around the Heights and downtown.
Discovery Green celebrates Houston’s unsung heroes in tree projections
The tree trunks are strung with festive white holiday lights, but Craig Walsh s projection effects are so eerie some people may want to run the other way.
Molly Glentzer December 14, 2020Updated: December 15, 2020, 1:41 pm
Faces are projected onto the trees that are the winter art installation Monuments at Discovery Green Thursday, Dec. 10, 2020 in Houston. The work, designed by Australian artist Craig Walsh, features giant slow-motion video projections of unsung Houston heroes who were nominated by the public onto the canopies of five trees at the park. Photo: Brett Coomer, Houston Chronicle / Staff photographer