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Visual Arts Review: Trump Likes Minimalism? Really?

All four budgets that Donald Trump and his sycophants sent to Congress had nada for the arts and humanities.

By: Mark Favermann Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Visual Arts Tagged: Donald Trump, Federal Buildings, Isamu Noguchi, Mark Favermann, Melania Trump

Visual Arts Commentary: Preservation, Two Cases of To Be or Not to Be

Today’s increasingly heated argument about architectural preservation revolves around discerning which pieces of the past are worth saving, which buildings are valuable to our present and future.

By: Mark Favermann Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Visual Arts Tagged: Inquilinos Boricuas en Acción, Mark Favermann, Villa Victoria Art Center

Visual Arts Review: Two Public Art Projects in Boston — Provocative Visual Expressions of the 21st Century

Steeped in technology, non-traditional public art is about sparking conversations about visuals as well as playing with contemporary aesthetic perspectives.

By: Mark Favermann Filed Under: Featured, Review, Visual Arts Tagged: Anne Morgan Spalter, Boston Cyberarts Gallery, LuminArtz, Maria Finkelmeier, Mark Favermann

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

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