Mark Favermann

Book Review: Superior Graphic Novels About Architecture

May 2, 2020
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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.

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Visual Arts Feature: A Walk in the City — Seeing Architectural Details and History in a Time of Covid-19

April 25, 2020
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Ironically, sheltering at home reminds us that walking through some neighborhoods in Boston is an aesthetically enriching experience.

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Visual Arts Commentary: The Shock of the Cute — Too Much of a Cute Thing?

April 15, 2020
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What gives with the overbearing presence of cuteness throughout the world of contemporary visual art?

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Book Review: “The Art of Classic Planning” — How to Build Beautiful and Enduring Communities

April 1, 2020
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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.

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Film Review: Recommendations — Architecture and Design Documentaries for the Housebound

March 29, 2020
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Films for those who practice — or are just interested in — design, architecture, and urban planning

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Visual Arts Remembrance: Farewell to a Light Artist — John Powell

March 1, 2020
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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.

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Visual Arts Favorites 2019

December 19, 2019
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Our critics sound off on some of their most striking visual art experiences this year.

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Visual Arts Commentary: Pat Falco’s MOCK — A Resonant Statement about Boston’s Affordable Housing Crisis

December 6, 2019
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With MOCK, the artist has made made an exceptionally powerful statement, conceptually and physically, about Boston’s increasingly dire affordable housing predicament.

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Visual Arts Review: Andy Goldsworthy’s “Watershed” — Mysterious Simplicity

November 24, 2019
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Watershed is an unadorned but stunning addition to the offerings at the deCordoba Sculpture Park and Museum.

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Visual Arts Review: Contemporary and Antediluvian — Judy McKie At Gallery NAGA

November 16, 2019
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Judy McKie draws on a personal mythology in which animal and plant forms become abstracted yet recognizable, anthropomorphic while remaining strangely primeval.

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