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# At Day for Night Festival, a Surreal World of Light Provides Respite from the Music
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/at-day-for-night-festival-a-surreal-world-of-light-provides-respite-from-the-music/
- Published: 2016-12-20T18:27:03.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T16:28:14.000Z
- Description: In a modernist complex in downtown Houston, artists transform the dark corners and rooms into a light-filled cluster of art.
- Author: Claire Voon
- Tags: News, Björk, Day for Night, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-hidden, #Import 2025-11-24 07:23 (2016, 2017, part 2)

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Michael Fullman, “Bardo” at Houston’s Day for Night Festival 2016 (all photos and GIF by the author for Hyperallergic)

HOUSTON — For over 50 years, postal workers scuttled through the concrete building once known as Houston’s Barbara Jordan Post Office; but with last year’s closure of those mail operations [arrived an opportunity](http://hyperallergic.com/day-for-night-adaptive-reuse/) to breathe new life into the hulking, modernist edifice. Now a multipurpose space saved from demolition, the structure last weekend blinked with colorful lights for its first function: [Day for Night](http://www.dayfornight.io/?ref=hyperallergic.com), an annual music and arts festival anchored right in the city. Although it just turned two, it is already establishing itself within the crowded sphere of its kind as a small but highly considered event, contained to not overwhelm but still offering plenty to impress.

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