“Pentalum” is an example of soft, temporal architecture: its geometric sculptural forms push against the boundaries of an interactive environmental art installation.
Mark Favermann
Visual Arts Review: “Stickwork” — Architectural Sculpture That Interweaves Myth and Reality
Patrick Dougherty’s Stickwork is a remarkable piece of public art.
Fuse Visual Arts: Janet Echelman’s Dazzling Aerial Sculpture — For Boston, the Sky’s the Limit
With this one project, Boston has gone from a public art also-ran community to a serious cultural player.
Visual Arts: The Edward M. Kennedy Institute — A Minimalist Sculptural Memorial
In an architectural sense, the Edward M. Kennedy Institute is too quiet a visual statement.
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.