In an architectural sense, the Edward M. Kennedy Institute is too quiet a visual statement.
Mark Favermann
Fuse Remembrance: Postmodern Master Michael Graves — Architect and Innovative Product Designer
Rejecting unadorned box-like designs, Michael Graves created with patterns, textures, decorations and color in ways large and small.
Visual Arts Review: Otto Piene’s Artistic Legacy — x 2
Otto Piene’s art is at once appealing, accessible, and yet somehow unworldly: joyful mystery yoked to dynamic playfulness.
Visual Arts: A Museum By Design — Transformed Cooper-Hewitt Museum Reopens
At their best, the exhibitions at the restored, renovated, and expanded Cooper-Hewitt Museum explore the history and culture of design and decorative arts with transcendent panache.
Fuse Visual Arts Review: Planes, Trains, and Automobiles at the MFA — The Beauty of Speed
Planes, Trains, and Automobiles at the MFA is a delightful exhibition dedicated to vehicular speed, mobility, style, and joy.
Visual Arts Review: Peabody Essex Museum’s “Calder and Abstraction” – Poetic Whimsy in Elegant Form and Motion
With grace and wit, Alexander Calder’s artwork integrated poetry and science, aesthetics and engineering.
Visual Arts Review: Harvard Art Museums Reborn – Spectacular Art in a New Showcase
Starchitect Renzo Piano and his team did very well given their constraints. It is damn hard to build the right frame for so much abundant beauty.
Visual Art Review: “Color Crossing” — An Urban Art Intervention in Downtown Boston
With Color Crossing, Kate Gilbert wanted to showcase “the collision between sights and sounds that make Downtown Crossing so vibrant.”
Fuse Visual Arts Commentary: The Lawn on D — A New Park Paradigm in South Boston
The Lawn on D is a breath of fresh cultural air in Boston.
Fuse Visual Arts Commentary: Design Museum Boston — Celebrating 21st Century Design
The establishment of Design Museum Boston is long overdue.