Friday Night Lights

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Or Monday and Wednesday nights, in this case. It seems the lights from the intra-mural sports fields are interfering with the light show at the new Skyspace at Rice. Surely Rice University has folks smart enough to solve this problem quickly.

Echigo-Tsumari Festival

The website for the Echigo-Tsumari Festival has a searchable index of the participating artists, with a photo for each. It's definitely worth some time. I chose this one from James Turrell. He's familiar to us in Houston, both for the tunnel linking the buildings at the MFAH and the Quaker meeting house with the retractable roof in the Heights. He also has a great piece at the Nasher Center in Dallas.

The best way I found is to go to the Search Artworks page, pick one randomly, and then spend time browsing using the "next" and "previous" buttons.