Downtown & ArtsPublic artFree
Lincoln Park & the freeway murals
Central, under the Spaghetti Bowl
Dozens of Chicano murals painted across the concrete columns where I-10 and US-54 cross — one of the most significant collections of Chicano public art in the Southwest.
Why go
- Decades of community art, maintained and defended by the neighborhood that made it.
- Free, outdoors, and unlike anything else you will photograph in Texas.
Planning notes
- Morning or late afternoon light is far better than midday glare.
More downtown & arts
The Plaza Theatre
A 1930 Spanish Colonial movie palace with a ceiling full of stars, saved from demolition and now the city’s marquee venue.
San Jacinto Plaza
The heart of downtown, with Luis Jiménez’s fiberglass alligator sculpture standing in for the live ones that really lived here until 1965.
Downtown Arts District & Murals
Galleries, studios, and an open-air mural scene that runs from Union Plaza into Segundo Barrio and out to the Lincoln Park underpasses.