Something is glowing at Market Square Park, and it s worth the trip to find out why. The Houston Downtown Management District has installed a new permanent public artwork in the historic park.
Meander, a series of raised cast-concrete troughs filled with glossy pigmented resin, mimics Buffalo Bayou’s physical form and route, giving park visitors a new view of the familiar body of water. The site-specific sculpture, which is part seating area, part playful artwork, was conceived and created by Falon Mihalic, founder of Falon Land Studio.
Meander is now permanently on view.
Situated between the dog run and the events lawn,
Rothko in a New Light
A $30 million restoration of Houston’s Rothko Chapel features updated acoustics and lighting that showcase as never before the 14 canvases that line its walls.
Inside the Rothko Chapel Photo: Elizabeth Felicella By Michael J. Lewis
Houston
The Rothko Chapel is a windowless brick octagon, 48 feet in diameter, whose sole source of light is a central oculus. It is a somber chamber of shadows and the 14 paintings by Mark Rothko that surround it are themselves shadows, rectangles of black or deep plum. It ought to be as inviting as the bottom of a well. And yet it is unexpectedly uplifting, and it seems to speak not of despair and oblivion but of the human spirit in all its proud, frail dignity.