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Visual Arts Commentary: The Boston Public Art Triennial — Recognizing and Celebrating Our Visual Arts Connections

October 15, 2025
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Through the efforts of the Boston Public Art Triennial, the City of Boston’s civic life and built environment have been enhanced and strengthened. Bravo!

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Visual Art and Design: A Design Controversy on Four Wheels — The Tesla Cybertruck

October 11, 2025
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Let me be clear where I stand on the Cybertruck controversy. I have never ridden in, driven, or even touched one. But I love the way it looks.

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Art and Design Commentary: Art Deco at 100 — Happy Birthday!

August 16, 2025
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Still fresh and energetic today, the Art Deco period — which influenced the construction or fabrication of buildings as well as luxury décor and functional objects — is considered one of the finest moments in design history.

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Arts Remembrance: The Special Legacies of Three Prominent Architects

June 23, 2025
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Though not necessarily for of their buildings, these three prominent architects leave legacies that will be cherished and remembered.

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Artist Feature: Architectural Illustrator Frank Costantino — Adding Soul to the Built Environment

March 31, 2025
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“Visionary Projects” at the Boston Athenaeum is a captivating exhibition of Frank M. Costantino’s work, a display of over 80 drawings and watercolors.

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Book Reviews: Three Very Different Architecture Books

February 21, 2025
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A trio of reviews of volumes on structures on paper and in the world.

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Design Review: “Polinature” — A Plug-in Vertical Garden That Fights Climate Change

October 2, 2024
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Projects like “Polinature” overcome reams of bureaucracy, reinforced by government inertia, in order to improve our environment in admirably cost effective and efficient ways.

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Design Commentary: The Look of the Olympic Games — Paris 2024

July 27, 2024
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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.

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Book Review: “The Atlas of Unbuilt Architecture” — Alarming and Inspiring Visions of “Castles in the Air”

July 25, 2024
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These designs serve as a forceful testament to the endless possibilities of architecture, to the imaginative power of engineering.

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Visual Art/Design Commentary: Floating Art in Fort Point Channel — See Worthy Public Art With a Conscience

July 19, 2024
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Almost immediately, this now quarter century old program proved to be a wonderful merger of art and environment, creativity and nature.

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