With grace and wit, Alexander Calder’s artwork integrated poetry and science, aesthetics and engineering.
Mark Favermann
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.
Fuse Remembrance: Otto Piene, Pioneer Environmental Artist and Former Director of MIT’s Center for Advanced Visual Studies
The late Otto Piene was a world-class artist. He created large scale and elegant environmental art pieces that seamlessly combined art, participation, and technology.
Visual Arts Review: Red Writ Large — Soviet Propaganda from the Cold War Era
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.
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.