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Mark Favermann

Visual Arts Remembrance: Industrial Designer Richard Sapper

Steve Jobs approached Sapper about heading up design for Apple. Politely, he declined the offer because he was too busy at the time.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Featured, Fuse News, Visual Arts Tagged: Alessi, design, industrial design, Mark Favermann, Richard Sapper

Visual Arts Commentary: Finally, Public Art is Booming in Boston

Boston’s visual art ethos has been painfully safe and systemically non-experimental. Thankfully, that is beginning to change.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Editorial, Featured, Review, Visual Arts Tagged: Boston Public Art, Mark Favermann

Fuse Visual Arts: Sound in the Now—”Curious Sound Objects” at Boston Cyberarts Gallery

Curious Sound Objects showcases works that sit at the intersection of art and science as well as aesthetics and technology.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Featured, Review, Visual Arts Tagged: Boston Cybersarts, Curious Sound Objects - Selected Works, Mark Favermann, Nickolas Peter Chelyapov

Visual Arts: Strandbeests — Theo Jansen’s Divine Machinery

Theo Jansen’s kinetic sculptures delightfully blur the conventional lines that divide art, science, and storytelling.

By: Mark Favermann Filed Under: Featured, Review, Visual Arts Tagged: machines, Mark Favermann, Peabody Essex Museum, public art, Strandbeest, Strandbeests, technology, Theo Jansen

Visual Arts Review: Design Biennial Boston 2015 — The Future? Or a Short-Term Exercise?

Current Mayor Marty Walsh has justifiably called for better design for Boston’s new structures.

By: Mark Favermann Filed Under: Featured, Review, Visual Arts Tagged: Boston Society of Architects, Cristina Parreño Architecture, Design Biennial Boston 2015, GLD, Landing Studio, Mark Favermann, Marty Walsh, MASS Design Group, Rose Kennedy Greenway

Fuse Visual Arts Review: Dazzling “Architectural Allusions” at the deCordova

This astutely curated exhibit explores the presence of architecture in contemporary sculpture.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Featured, Review, Visual Arts Tagged: Architectural Allusions, Dan Graham, deCordova Museum’s Sculpture Park, Esther Kläs, Jennifer Gross, Kenneth Snelson, Mark Favermann, Monika Sosnowska, Oscar Tuazon, outdoor sculpture, Sol LeWitt, Stephanie Cardon

Fuse Visual Arts Commentary: Boston City Hall — A ‘Triumph’ of Brutalism

Urban pollution and acid rain have not dealt kindly with Boston City Hall’s mostly concrete facade.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Visual Arts Tagged: béton brut, Boston City Hall, Brutalism, Brutalist building, concrete, Le Corbusier, Mark Favermann, Mary Walsh

Visual Arts: Giant White Bunnies at the Lawn on D — Down the Pop Culture Rabbit Hole

In recent years several serious artists, Amanda Parer among them, have created giant inflatable pieces with the aim of making cultural/political statements.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Featured, Review, Visual Arts Tagged: Amanda Parer, balloons, Boston, giant inflatable, Giant Rabbits, Intrude, Lawn at D, Mark Favermann, public art

Visual Arts Feature: Visiting the Only Frank Lloyd Wright Building in MA

The Theodore Baird House is a special place; the only Frank Lloyd Wright structure in Massachusetts.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Visual Arts Tagged: Frank-Lloyd-Wright, Mark Favermann, Theodore Baird House

Visual Arts: M.I.T.’s Memorial to Officer Sean Collier — Mundane Rather than Marvelous

M.I.T.’s Sean Collier Memorial does not make a full-bodied artistic statement — it does not elicit a strongly felt aesthetic or visceral reaction.

By: Mark Favermann Filed Under: Featured, Review, Visual Arts Tagged: Boston Marathon Bombings, Boston Strong, M.I.T, Mark Favermann, Memorial, public sculpture, Sean Collier

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