Our critics sound off on some of their most striking visual art experiences this year.
Mark Favermann
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
Book Review: Walter Gropius — The Very Human Face of the Visionary Founder of the Bauhaus
Award-winning author and critic Fiona MacCarthy is out to change wrong-headed perceptions of Walter Gropius in her biography. And she succeeds.
Visual Arts Review: A Creative Camelot — The Bauhaus and Harvard University
This inspiring show celebrates the 100th anniversary of the founding of The Bauhaus.
Book Reviews: A Provocative Trio of Volumes on Architecture and Landscape Architecture
In very different ways and on very different topics, three recent books assuage notions that architecture/design books are formidable reads.