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Mark Favermann

Visual Arts Commentary: An Enduring New England Design Influence — The Shaker Style

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.

By: Mark Favermann Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Visual Arts Tagged: Mark Favermann, Shaker Style

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.

By: Mark Favermann Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Visual Arts Tagged: Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial, Frank Gehry, Mark Favermann

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.

By: Mark Favermann Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Visual Arts Tagged: Art on the Marquee, Boston Cyberarts, Boston Cyberarts Gallery, digital art, Mark Favermann, public art

Book Review: “Urban Legends: The South Bronx in Representation and Ruin” — Naked City

Peter L’Official has written an important book that speaks with powerful relevance to the state of Black life in America today — and the demands of Black Lives Matter.

By: Mark Favermann Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Harvard University Press, Mark Favermann, Peter L’Official, Urban Legends: The South Bronx in Representation and Ruin

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.

By: Mark Favermann Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Visual Arts Tagged: Mark Favermann, street furniture

Visual Arts Commentary: The Bridge of Flowers, Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts

An appreciation of a footbridge that intertwines nature with our humanity.

By: Mark Favermann Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Visual Arts Tagged: Mark Favermann, Shelburne Falls Massachusetts, The Bridge of Flowers

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.

By: Mark Favermann Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Visual Arts Tagged: Design for Distancing Ideas Guidebook, Mark Favermann, Placemaking

Visual Arts Commentary: Boston’s Historical Memorial to Black Lives Vandalized

Boston’s most celebrated piece of public art was one of 16 monuments irresponsibly defaced during the recent protests.

By: Mark Favermann Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Visual Arts Tagged: Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Black Lives Matter, Mark Favermann, The Robert Gould Shaw and Massachusetts 54th Regiment Memorial

Visual Arts Commentary: Life After Lockdown — Designs for Future Living After COVID-19

These products are imaginative clues to what our ‘new normal’ future will be like.

By: Mark Favermann Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Visual Arts Tagged: Mark Favermann

Book Review: Superior Graphic Novels About Architecture

What do graphic novels about architecture bring to our understanding of the urban experience? They suggest that buildings can be like our memories — they hide as much as they show.

By: Mark Favermann Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Asterios Polyp, David Mazzcchuelli, graphic novel, Mark Favermann, Olivier Balez, Pierre Christin, Robert Moses: The Master Builder of New York City, The Structure Is Rotten Comrade, Viken Berberian, Yann Kebbi

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