Brandeis’ Rose Art Museum presents a creative, insightful look at urban blight.
Mark Favermann
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.
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.
Visual Arts Remembrance: Robert Venturi, An Architectural Provocateur
Robert Venuti’s opposition to the Modernism’s rigid corporate style made healthy waves.
Visual Arts Commentary: Three Temporary Public Art Pieces — A Dialogue with Art and Ourselves
Three bold new public art installations underscore the possibilities of visual and conceptual experiences in 21st century Boston.
Arts Commentary: Conserving Cultural Heritage — the Tangible and the Intangible
Cartagena is a 500-year old urban jewel in the Caribbean. But climate change and rising sea levels threaten its heritage.
