Mark Favermann

April Short Fuses – Materia Critica

April 2, 2022
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Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.

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Theater Review: “Ocean Filibuster” at A.R.T. — Surfing the Waves of Immersive Science and Art

March 17, 2022
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Ocean Filibuster draws on a marvelous fusion of myth, song, free verse, and science to explore why we are standing at the frightening edge of the cliff of our planet’s survival.

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Visual Arts Commentary: Reordering Design Priorities Through Biometric Research

March 2, 2022
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The cognitive architecture approach espoused by the Human Architecture and Planning Institute is applying a welcome new paradigm that responds in a fresh way to the built environment.

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Visual Arts Commentary: NFT Art — Disinterested Creativity or an Investment Strategy?

December 5, 2021
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Clearer heads conclude that there will be plenty of cultural space for both physical art and this highly monetized new digital art.

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Book Review: “Museum of Fine Arts Boston: 1870 to 2020, An Oral History” — Questioning the Elite

November 24, 2021
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This is an invaluable gathering of interviews, an impressive excavation of institutional memory that not only recognizes the MFA’s grandeur but its many deficiencies as well.

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October Short Fuses – Materia Critica

October 7, 2021
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Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.

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Visual Arts Review: New Public Art — Past, Present, and Future Ghosts of the Imagination

July 24, 2021
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Recently, a number of public artworks have been charged with memorializing ghosts or “specters” of the past.

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Visual Arts Commentary: “The Scream,” “Sunflowers,” and the “Mona Lisa” — Gone Baby Gone

July 11, 2021
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Perhaps we need to call on Sherlock Holmes in order to resolve the 31-year old “no end in sight” Gardner heist?

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Visual Arts Review: Trump Likes Minimalism? Really?

February 23, 2021
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All four budgets that Donald Trump and his sycophants sent to Congress had nada for the arts and humanities.

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