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Art blocks at main street square7/26/2023 You can bike (or walk) along Buffalo Bayou and pop right up into Downtown Houston. One more option is to park over at Sabine Street bridge at the Buffalo Bayou Cistern. so if you don't want to walk, consider street parking for $2 at each stop. Our favorite activities are spread out over about 10 city blocks. ![]() Paid lots are usually good all day for around $10 (but vary greatly. Street parking is limited to 3 hours and is about $2/hour (and free after 6:00pm and on Sundays). Parking in Downtown Houston is available with metered street parking or paid lots. (Always check the signs and hide your valuables before you leave your car!) Take the red line to Main Street Square and you will in the middle of Downtown!įor a quick overview of how to use METRORail, go HERE! but Hermann Park/Museum District has all day lots. and it's the honor system (with spot checks). You buy tickets with cash or credit at the stations. METRORail is $1.25 for anyone older than 5 years old. and just have to decide if we want to deal with parking or if we want to deal with hot tired kids!) so you can drive and park as well! (We do both. My preference is to take METRORail and walk. Our favorite things to do in Downtown Houston.If you have more favorites, let us know! Jump to: Here are some of our favorite things to do in Downtown Houston. Urban Houston exploring is our very favorite thing to do. ![]() ![]() Giovanni Valderas refuses to bid everyone a sad “Adios” or “Goodbye.” Instead, this installation, created with the illusion of a piñata’s texture, will give a friendly "Ay Te Miro" (See you later) to Houston and the world.Ĭelebrate the Art Blocks at the free Big Bash party Saturday, April 16, from noon to 6:00 p.m.Looking for what to do in Downtown Houston? In July, Roses and Hearts on the Blue Sky by Nataliya Scheib will add another burst of color to the skyline, this time in the form of flowers on an blue background in the decorative style of Scheib’s native Ukraine.Īppropriately, flowers give way to City Bird of Houston in October and Armando Castelan’s giant blue bird making the Main Street Marquee building into its birdhouse for the mild Texas Autumn.įinally, from January to March as visitors travel both to Houston for the Super Bowl and then home and as the Art Blocks installations near their end, the work Salads by M. On view now is Jamal Cyrus’s Lightin’ Field, a piece both referencing and honoring Houston blues musician Lightnin’ Hopkins and the famous music venue Liberty Hall once located on Chenevert. Main Street Marquee This several stories high, two-dimensional space will allow four different artists their time in the Main Street corner spotlight, as every four months between now and March 2017 a new work will be installed. For Color Jam the everyday things of Downtown Houston, the sidewalks, buildings, street lights and planters all become both a canvas for picture-making and objects inside this giant intersection-wide painting. Stockholder began her artist career as a painter but was less interested in using canvas as in using the space around her. Jessica Stockholder has been commissioned to create public art all over the world, but she has maintained a fascination in intersections both real and figurative. Color Jam Houston by Jessica Stockholder The dramatic colors beautifully blowing and slashing through the city doesn’t end with Trumpet Flower.
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