Mark Favermann
Tastefully colorful and aesthetically pleasing, stylish as well as minimalist, modern yet richly symbolic, the Look of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games got many things right and a few wrong.
Almost immediately, this now quarter century old program proved to be a wonderful merger of art and environment, creativity and nature.
Political attacks aside, MIT’s Schwarzman College of Computing is a contemporary jewel of a building.
Over the last 15 years, HarborArts has effectively used public art to raise public awareness, stimulating dialogue about environmental concerns — the climate crisis and degradation of the sea.
Made over 100 years before the current marketing phrase went abuzz, 1304 Massachusetts Avenue is a charming example of a true immersive retail experience.
This provocative installation is at the deCordova Sculpture Park & Museum is a “dystopian meditation on the lives of marginalized groups, debt, the challenges of home ownership and living in a climate-stressed world today.”
Many in the increasingly vocal community of stakeholders feel strongly that tradition, history, and student sports will be the victims of this apparent corporate/public conflict.
Amid the year’s chaos, art was a saving grace, civilizing and humanizing: a much needed blessing that allowed us to breathe, to inhale beauty and perhaps a whiff or two of truth.
“One of the accomplishments of this book is that it is a capsule history of the art of Cape Ann.”
Visual Arts Commentary: Sunshine and Shadows — Sundials, Where Art and Technology First Met
Considered the earliest integration of art and technology, sundials of various types have been around for 4000 years or so.
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