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Visual Arts Commentary: An Enduring New England Design Influence — The Shaker Style

As we move into the 21st Century, with the Climate Crisis and consumerism on the rise, the Shaker’s “less is so much more” sensibility takes on even more significance, practical as well as spiritual.

By: Mark Favermann Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Visual Arts Tagged: Mark Favermann, Shaker Style

Arts Remembrance: Art Critic and Historian Barbara Rose

At a time when ambitious women of any sort were often harshly criticized for pursuing a professional career, Barbara Rose only forged on.

By: Peter Walsh Filed Under: Featured, Visual Arts Tagged: Barbara Rose, peter-Walsh

Visual Arts Commentary: America’s Historical Monuments — Under Reconsideration

The Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial is the latest product of our heated social/political/cultural debates about America’s memorials and their vision of the country’s past, present, and future.

By: Mark Favermann Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Visual Arts Tagged: Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial, Frank Gehry, Mark Favermann

Visual Arts Commentary: Digital Media — Public Art Is a Bridge to Our New Normal

In a time when everyday seems like Wednesday, creative use of new media is a visual and experiential bridge to our new and hopefully innovative normal.

By: Mark Favermann Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Visual Arts Tagged: Art on the Marquee, Boston Cyberarts, Boston Cyberarts Gallery, digital art, Mark Favermann, public art

Visual Arts Book Review: Pasolini and Fluxus — For and Against the Avant-Garde

 Long live Fluxus, with its questionable boxes of ephemera, its baggy bags of soil, and its mad prankster sensibility.

By: Tim Francis Barry Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review, Visual Arts Tagged: Against the Avant-Garde: Pier Paolo Pasolini, Ara H. Merjian., contemporary art, Eternal Network, Fluxus, Fluxus Forms, Fluxus Forms: Scores, Multiples, Natilee Harren, Neocapitalism, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Tim Francis Barry

Visual Arts/Film Review: “Elliott Erwitt — Silence Sounds Good” — Far From Dull

Aside from making generalities about “making good photographs” and “earning a living,” celebrated photographer Elliott Erwitt steadfastly refuses to be drawn out.

By: Peter Walsh Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review, Visual Arts Tagged: Adriana Lopez Sanfeliu, Cargo Film, Elliott Erwitt, Elliott Erwitt -- Silence Sounds Good, Magnum, Photography

Visual Arts Review: “Blane De St. Croix: How to Move a Landscape” — Facing the Horrific Sublime

The art of Blane De St. Croix comes at the viewer via a multivalent attack on the staggering challenges posed by irreparable climate change.

By: Charles Giuliano Filed Under: Featured, Review, Uncategorized, Visual Arts Tagged: Blane De St. Croix: How To Move a Landscape, MassMOCA

Visual Arts Commentary: Street Furniture — The Dilemma of Making Urban Spaces Comfortable and Unique

The City of Boston needs to think seriously about maintaining its distinctive charm, and street furniture is a very powerful tool to that end, when strategically applied.

By: Mark Favermann Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Visual Arts Tagged: Mark Favermann, street furniture

Visual Arts Commentary: The Bridge of Flowers, Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts

An appreciation of a footbridge that intertwines nature with our humanity.

By: Mark Favermann Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Visual Arts Tagged: Mark Favermann, Shelburne Falls Massachusetts, The Bridge of Flowers

Visual Arts Commentary: “Placemaking” — Thoughts on the Virus and Our Current Public Environment

Today, our perception of the environment has become narrowed, defensive: the outside world has become worrisome, dangerous, aspirational, and changing.

By: Mark Favermann Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Visual Arts Tagged: Design for Distancing Ideas Guidebook, Mark Favermann, Placemaking

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