They shuffled through the gloomy, curving entryway to the Buffalo Bayou Park Cistern, the space lit with eerie, knee-high lights. A guide ushered them into the dark expanse, pincushioned by thin ...

This is your first of three free stories this month. Become a free or sustaining member to read unlimited articles, webinars and ebooks. “Hellooooooo cistern!” Anne Olson called into the darkness. For ...

A new holiday light show is like no other in Houston. Buffalo Bayou Partnership will light up one of Houston’s hidden treasures, the underground cistern, built in 1926 to store Houston's public ...

A subterranean reservoir in Houston, Texas, once slated for demolition is being reimagined as an unconventional art space. The Buffalo Bayou Park Cistern is a 1920s water reservoir measuring 87,500 ...

One of Houston's signature art spaces is opening a unique art installation in April, a piece called "Undercurrents" by Rafeal Lozano-Hemmer that will turn visitors' voices into a brilliant light show.

At the center of Time No Longer, Berlin-based artist Anri Sala’s new site-specific video-and-sound installation in Houston’s cavernous Buffalo Bayou Park Cistern, is the projected image of a record ...

The folks behind Buffalo Bayou Park have opened another attraction — and this time it’s subterranean. What used to be an 87,500-square foot drinking water cistern built in 1926 has been brought up to ...

A decommissioned 1926-built cistern near Houston's Buffalo Bayou has become a one-of-a-kind venue for site-specific art installations, a tourism destination, a draw for infrastructure geeks or those ...