Landmark Lost

‘A Loss That Speaks Volumes’: The Life and Death of Houston’s Graffiti Park

Demolished for a freeway expansion, Graffiti Park was the beating heart of the city's street art community. The artists who built it now ask, What’s next?

07/09/2025 By Erica Cheng

Collision of Cultures

A Three-Day Pop-Up Brings Kimono Fever to the MFAH

Kimono Zulu unveiled a one-of-a-kind collaboration with prominent Houston graffiti artist GONZO247.

05/08/2018 By Abby Ledoux

Post-Brunch Plans

This Weekend in Design: Graffiti on a Kimono, Self Care and Shopping, and a $1 Sale

What’s popping up in our city from April 20-22?

04/19/2018 By Abby Ledoux

Behind the Walls

How Street Art Took Over Houston

Today, you can’t throw a rock in Houston without hitting a piece of commissioned street art as the city embraces the once-illegal art form. Here's how the transition happened.

06/21/2017 By Paul DeBenedetto Photography by Marco Torres

Get Out

See a City Transformed with Color at the HUE Mural Festival

The week-long festival aims to add 20,000 square feet of paint and personality to Houston's walls and streets.

10/14/2016 By Leah Lucio

Feeling Festive

What to Do This Weekend: Festival Edition

From pasta-eating contests at Festa Italiana to colorful street art at Mural Fest, there's more than one way to enjoy this glorious fall weather.

10/13/2016 By Jeanne Lyons Davis

Eastbound & Down

Feeling the Love in the East End

The East End Foundation hosts an open house today with a special artistic tour of the cultural hub.

02/10/2016 By Leah Rose

Quick Hits

Houston Gets a Snazzy New Snapchat Filter

The candy-colored graffiti banner couldn't be more Bayou City.

02/10/2016 By Katharine Shilcutt

Design

Street Art Heads Indoors with New Houston Tile Collection

47 local murals are featured in the first-ever collection by La Nova.

06/11/2015 By Sarah Rufca Nielsen

The Perfect Party

July’s Perfect Party

A toast to persistence and (staying) power

07/01/2013 By Catherine Matusow Illustrations by Charlie Powell

Street Art

SLIDESHOW: GreenStreet Art

Four street artists help launch the rebranding of downtown's Houston Pavilions entertainment complex.

06/07/2013 By Sarah Pendley

Slideshow

SLIDESHOW: GreenStreet Art

06/07/2013