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Visual Arts Commentary: Pat Falco’s MOCK — A Resonant Statement about Boston’s Affordable Housing Crisis

Visual Arts Commentary: Pat Falco’s MOCK — A Resonant Statement about Boston’s Affordable Housing Crisis

With MOCK, the artist has made made an exceptionally powerful statement, conceptually and physically, about Boston’s increasingly dire affordable housing predicament.

By: Mark Favermann Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Visual Arts Tagged: Mark Favermann, MOCK, Now + There, Pat Falco

Visual Arts Review: Andy Goldsworthy’s “Watershed” — Mysterious Simplicity

Visual Arts Review: Andy Goldsworthy’s “Watershed” — Mysterious Simplicity

Watershed is an unadorned but stunning addition to the offerings at the deCordoba Sculpture Park and Museum.

By: Mark Favermann Filed Under: Featured, Review, Visual Arts Tagged: Andy Goldsworthy: Watershed, Andy Goldworthy, DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Mark Favermann

Visual Arts Review: Contemporary and Antediluvian — Judy McKie At Gallery NAGA

Visual Arts Review: Contemporary and Antediluvian — Judy McKie At Gallery NAGA

Judy McKie draws on a personal mythology in which animal and plant forms become abstracted yet recognizable, anthropomorphic while remaining strangely primeval.

By: Mark Favermann Filed Under: Featured, Review, Visual Arts Tagged: Gallery NAGA, Judy Kensley Mckie, Mark Favermann

Arts Commentary: MFA Boston — at 150

Arts Commentary: MFA Boston — at 150

There have been times in the MFA’s past when it hasn’t lived up to its educational mission, when it has pandered to the whims of the wealthy — particularly its fat cat benefactors.

By: Robert Israel Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Visual Arts Tagged: Boston, Museum of Fine Arts

Music Interview: “Going to the Place That’s the Best” — Norman Greenbaum Returns Home to Malden

Music Interview: “Going to the Place That’s the Best” — Norman Greenbaum Returns Home to Malden

The hit 1969 song “The Spirit in the Sky” by Malden’s own Norman Greenbaum is the inspiration for one of several new works of public art.

By: Jason M. Rubin Filed Under: Featured, Music, Rock, Visual Arts Tagged: Jason M. Rubin, Jesse Melanson, Norman Greenbaum, The Spirit in the Sky

Visual Arts Review: “Women Take the Floor” at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts

Visual Arts Review: “Women Take the Floor” at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts

Had the curatorial parameters been tighter in concept, and more generous regarding the source of the work, the MFA might have produced a great, rather than just a good, exhibit. .

By: Kathleen Stone Filed Under: Featured, Review, Visual Arts Tagged: Kathleen Stone, Women Take the Floor

Visual Arts Review: Gordon Matta-Clark, Anarchitect — Anarchy + Architecture

Visual Arts Review: Gordon Matta-Clark, Anarchitect — Anarchy + Architecture

Brandeis’ Rose Art Museum presents a creative, insightful look at urban blight.

By: Mark Favermann Filed Under: Featured, Review, Visual Arts Tagged: Gordon Matta-Clark: Anarchitect, Mark Favermann, Rose-Art-Museum

Visual Arts Commentary: Public Art — Much More than Murals

Visual Arts Commentary: Public Art  — Much More than Murals

Thankfully, public art has become much more than murals for blank wall spaces.

By: Mark Favermann Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Visual Arts Tagged: Boston Public Art, Image of the City, Jeff Speck, Kevin Lynch, Mark Favermann, Walkable Cities Rules

Visual Arts Review: “Bookworks” — Volumes of Curiosity

Visual Arts Review: “Bookworks” —  Volumes of Curiosity

Any traditional notions of what does, or does not, constitute a book are challenged here — you will find yourself searching for a definition that fits.

By: Kathleen Stone Filed Under: Featured, Review, Visual Arts Tagged: Bookworks, Kathleen Stone, Tufts University Art Galleries

Visual Arts Review: Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater — Brilliance Beyond Myth

Visual Arts Review: Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater — Brilliance Beyond Myth

20th Century Modern Architectural Greatness

By: Mark Favermann Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Visual Arts Tagged: Fallingwater, Frank-Lloyd-Wright, Mark Favermann

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