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.
Mark Favermann
Arts Commentary: A New Home for the North Bennet Street School — Continuing A Legacy of Craftsmanship Training into the 21st Century
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.
Homage: Mega Designer Massimo Vignelli Leaves Modernist Design Legacy
The life of a designer is a life of fight: fight against ugliness. — the late Massimo Vignelli
Visual Arts Review: At MIT — Discovering Hans Scharoun, Architect and Visionary
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.
Visual Arts Commentary: A Trio of Local Arts Colleges Complete Major Structures
Three Boston-based arts colleges have completed major structures. Each has taken a different aesthetic path to assert its very own institutional signature.
Visual Arts Review: Designing the California State of Mind
California has long been the home of fads, trends, new styles and the next new thing. It is where cool was and is created.