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Mark Favermann

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

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: 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

Book Review: Walter Gropius — The Very Human Face of the Visionary Founder of the Bauhaus

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.

By: Mark Favermann Filed Under: Books, Review Tagged: Fiona MacCarthy, Gropius: The Man Who Built the Bauhaus, Ise Gropius, Mark Favermann, Walter Gropius

Visual Arts Review: A Creative Camelot — The Bauhaus and Harvard University

Visual Arts Review: A Creative Camelot — The Bauhaus and Harvard University

This inspiring show celebrates the 100th anniversary of the founding of The Bauhaus.

By: Mark Favermann Filed Under: Featured, Review, Visual Arts Tagged: Harvard-Art-Museums, Mark Favermann, The Bauhaus and Harvard

Book Reviews: A Provocative Trio of Volumes on Architecture and Landscape Architecture

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.

By: Mark Favermann Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review, Visual Arts Tagged: Cocktails and Conversations, Dialogues on Architectural Design, Mark Favermann, Mark Lamster, Philip Johnson, Seeing Trees: A History of Street Trees in New York City and Berlin, Sonja Dümpelmann, The Man in the Glass House, Yale-University-Press

Film Review: A Compelling Look at Dieter Rams, Industrial Design Icon at 86

Film Review: A Compelling Look at Dieter Rams, Industrial Design Icon at 86

Rams is a documentary film carefully crafted to be more than a biography of a great designer.

By: Mark Favermann Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: Dieter Rams, documentary, Gary Hustwit, Mark Favermann, Rams

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