Boston’s most celebrated piece of public art was one of 16 monuments irresponsibly defaced during the recent protests.
Mark Favermann
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.
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.
Visual Arts Feature: A Walk in the City — Seeing Architectural Details and History in a Time of Covid-19
Ironically, sheltering at home reminds us that walking through some neighborhoods in Boston is an aesthetically enriching experience.
Visual Arts Commentary: The Shock of the Cute — Too Much of a Cute Thing?
What gives with the overbearing presence of cuteness throughout the world of contemporary visual art?
Book Review: “The Art of Classic Planning” — How to Build Beautiful and Enduring Communities
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.
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.