By so memorably reestablishing the fundamentals of urban design and planning, The Art of Classic Planning will be a strategic addition to any architecture or urban planning library.
Mark Favermann
Film Review: Recommendations — Architecture and Design Documentaries for the Housebound
Films for those who practice — or are just interested in — design, architecture, and urban planning
Visual Arts Remembrance: Farewell to a Light Artist — John Powell
It seems quite fitting for an artist of light to leave a gallery show filled with his distinctive multimedia light art. Memories of John Powell, like his art, will continue to glow, brightly.
Visual Arts Favorites 2019
Our critics sound off on some of their most striking visual art experiences this year.
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.
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.
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.
Visual Arts Review: Gordon Matta-Clark, Anarchitect — Anarchy + Architecture
Brandeis’ Rose Art Museum presents a creative, insightful look at urban blight.
Visual Arts Commentary: Public Art — Much More than Murals
Thankfully, public art has become much more than murals for blank wall spaces.
Visual Arts Review: Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater — Brilliance Beyond Myth
20th Century Modern Architectural Greatness