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.
Visual Arts
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Visual Arts Commentary: The Bridge of Flowers, Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts
An appreciation of a footbridge that intertwines nature with our humanity.
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.