Mark Favermann

Fuse Visual Arts Commentary: Design Museum Boston — Celebrating 21st Century Design

August 22, 2014
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The establishment of Design Museum Boston is long overdue.

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Fuse Remembrance: Otto Piene, Pioneer Environmental Artist and Former Director of MIT’s Center for Advanced Visual Studies

July 23, 2014
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The late Otto Piene was a world-class artist. He created large scale and elegant environmental art pieces that seamlessly combined art, participation, and technology.

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Visual Arts Review: Red Writ Large — Soviet Propaganda from the Cold War Era

July 11, 2014
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Darker Shades of Red focuses on the Soviet Union’s creation of internal propaganda, its array of striking posters aimed at keeping those in the Motherland and the satellites in line.

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Arts Commentary: A New Home for the North Bennet Street School — Continuing A Legacy of Craftsmanship Training into the 21st Century

June 18, 2014
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The newly rehoused North Bennet Street School now brings together all of its educational and administrative programs into a single facility with expansive floor space and natural lighting.

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Homage: Mega Designer Massimo Vignelli Leaves Modernist Design Legacy

May 30, 2014
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The life of a designer is a life of fight: fight against ugliness. — the late Massimo Vignelli

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Visual Arts Review: At MIT — Discovering Hans Scharoun, Architect and Visionary

May 27, 2014
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German architect Hans Scharoun’s compelling story, as both a man and an artist navigating perilous times, has been neglected (aside from architectural historians and seriously informed students) until relatively recently.

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Visual Arts Commentary: A Trio of Local Arts Colleges Complete Major Structures

May 20, 2014
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Three Boston-based arts colleges have completed major structures. Each has taken a different aesthetic path to assert its very own institutional signature.

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Visual Arts Review: Designing the California State of Mind

April 27, 2014
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California has long been the home of fads, trends, new styles and the next new thing. It is where cool was and is created.

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