Hans-Jörg Georgi's Armada Of Dream Aircraft
“I want to do something good for the world. I’m taking you all with me on a journey,” says German…
Japanese Artists Featured In 'Phantasm' At LaiSun Keane
“Phantasm” at LaiSun Keane gallery in Boston from Jan. 6 to Feb. 26, 2023, features Japanese artists Rena Kudoh, Taeko…
Mark Cooper's 'Bloomin' At Gallery Kayafas
“Bloomin’ refers to new growth coming out of a harsh time,” Boston artist Mark Cooper writes of his exhibition “Bloomin'”…
'Age of Roe' Surveys Activism For And Against Legal Abortion In U.S.
“The Age of Roe: The Past, Present, and Future of Abortion in America” at Harvard Radcliffe Institute Schlesinger Library’s Poorvu…
'Waterlines' At Somerville Museum Mulls Our Relationship With Water
“Waterlines: Stories of Urban Ebb and Flow” at the Somerville Museum from Dec. 15, 2022, to March 22, 2023, asks…
MLK Memorial 'The Embrace' Unveiled At Boston Common
“This work is really about the capacity for each of us to be enveloped in love, and I feel enveloped…
What Art To See This Winter
If this is the kind of coverage of arts, cultures and activisms you appreciate, please support Wonderland by contributing to…
Jeffu Warmouth’s Surreal Gags About Our ‘Struggles To Be Human’
Amidst the absurdist gags and studio craft of Jeffu Warmouth’s exhibition “Stamp Sketches & Stomp Boxes,” at Boston Sculptors Gallery…
Creative County Announces More Arts Funding, New Grants At Arts Summit
This is a sponsored post supported by the Essex County Community Foundation’s Creative County Initiative. To mark five years since…
The Puppetry Of 'Dragons and Mythical Beasts'
How does “Dragons and Mythical Beasts” from the UK’s Nicoll Entertainment make its troll and unicorn and, of course, dragons…
Five Decades Of Bread And Puppet At Salem State
“Bread and Puppet Theater: Art and Activism in Five Acts” showcases five decades of masks, giant puppets and books relating…
Bread And Puppet Performs 'Apocalypse Defiance Circus' In Cambridge
Bread and Puppet Theater performed its “Apocalypse Defiance Circus” on Cambridge Common on Sept. 4 as part of its national…
Bread And Puppet Theater's 'Apocalypse Defiance Circus'
Bread and Puppet Theater performed its “Apocalypse Defiance Circus” at its home base in Glover, Vermont, on Aug. 28 as…
Goodbye To Bread And Puppet's Genevieve Yeuillaz
In the early 1970s, French actress Genevieve Yeuillaz had a fateful meeting with Peter Schumann, the founder of the landmark…
‘Ecstatic Decrepitude’ By Bread And Puppet’s Peter Schumann
“‘Ecstatic Decrepitude’ is presented on two stories,” Bread and Puppet Theater founder Peter Schumann writes of his exhibition at ArtYard…
Colleen Michaels Debuts 'Prize Wheel' Poetry Collection
Colleen Michaels, founder and host of the Improbable Places Poetry Tour, debuted her first poetry collection “Prize Wheel” (Small Bites…
'Immersive Storytelling': Primer For Making The Audience’s Dreams Come True
The idea of “Adventure Thru Inner Space” at California’s Disneyland was that riders were miraculously shrunk down to the size…
Paintings Of New England Transgender Children At Boston Children’s Museum
“I believe in art as a means of materializing visions of liberation, healing from trauma, and manifesting change, at both…
Ed Emberley: Drawing Made (To Look) Easy
“This is the whole secret—this is an alphabet,” children’s book creator Ed Emberley has told Cambridge artist and writer Caleb…
Beatrix Potter And The Letter That Birthed Peter Rabbit
“My dear Noel, I don’t know what to write to you, so I shall tell you a story about four…
Ariel Bordeaux’s ‘Clutter: A Scatterbrained Sexual Assault Memoir’
Ariel Bordeaux’s “Clutter: A Scatterbrained Sexual Assault Memoir” (Fieldmouse Press) is a beautiful 80-page nonfiction graphic novel of anxieties and…
Pig Racing, Giant Pumpkins And Oxen At The Topsfield Fair
The annual Topsfield Fair in Topsfield, Massachusetts, from Sept. 30 to Oct. 10, 2022, offers giant pumpkins, racing pigs, an…
Bike To The Sea | Rail-Trail From Everett To Lynn
Join us for Bike To The Sea’s 2022 ride along the Northern Strand Community Trail, from Everett’s Madeline English School…
Maquoketa Caves | Video Tour
Join us as we visit Maquoketa Caves State Park, 25 miles west of the Mississippi River in northeast Iowa, with…
Osprey Along The Saugus River
Spotted an osprey eating what looked like a fish along the Saugus River and Northern Strand Community Trail in Saugus…
Sea Lions, Orangutans, Lions At Brookfield Zoo, Chicago
Lions, gorillas, orangutans, sea lions and more at Brookfield Zoo, outside Chicago. If this is the kind of coverage of…
Finding A Fox In Our Neighborhood
Join us in our new Wonderland Spectacle Co. video as we find gray foxes in our neighborhood. Then learn how…
Photos: 2022 Honk Festival in Somerville and Cambridge
Honk, the annual festival of activist street bands, arrives in Somerville and Cambridge this weekend. Begun here in 2006, the…
Photos: Honk Festival In Somerville, Cambridge And Boston
Honk, the annual festival of activist street bands, returned yesterday, after taking a year off from live performances to help…
Honk Band Festival Returns 10/9—In New Neighborhoods, With Covid Precautions
Honk, the annual festival of activist street bands, returns Saturday, Oct. 9, after taking a year off from live performances…
JP Porchfest Arrives With New BIPOC Leadership And Spotlight On Artists Of Color
“Big news from Jamaica Plain Porchfest,” read the headline of the email that arrived at the end of 2020. “Mindy…
Spend New Year’s Eve Eve With Nova One And FirstWorks’ ‘Urban Carnevale’
“Providence is my home and I plan to live and die here at the moment,” Roz Raskin, who fronts the…
Once Will Not Reopen At Somerville Venue Due To Covid, Owner Says
Once, the Somerville music lounge and ballroom, “will not reopen” at its current venue, owner JJ Gonson announced today. (Read…
MLK Memorial 'The Embrace' Unveiled At Boston Common
“This work is really about the capacity for each of us to be enveloped in love, and I feel enveloped…
Deceased Beech Tree Turned Into Statue In Somerville Park
When a massive, old European beech tree at Somerville’s Symphony Park declined into disease, the city’s Parks and Open Space…
Rob 'ProBlak' Gibbs' 'Breathe Life Together" Mural On Boston's Greenway
“My vision is to add to Boston’s skyline in a way that elevates the voices and work of those who’ve…
Olmsted's 200th Birthday Remembered With Moss Installation At Jamaica Pond
“Gradually and silently the charm comes over us; we know not exactly where or how” reads a moss installation by…
Best Christmas Decorations Around Greater Boston
Below is Wonderland’s guide to dazzling holiday decorations around greater Boston, from Attleboro to Somerville (listed by community, in alphabetical…
Halloween Displays Around Greater Boston
Some highlights of Halloween displays around Greater Boston for 2021 (listed by community, in alphabetical order). If this is the…
At Old Sturbridge Village, 1830s America Comes Alive With Chickens, Sheep, Cows, Pigs
Part of the fun of an old timey living-history museum like Old Sturbridge Village is the feeling that you’ve stepped…
Beauport: Henry Sleeper's Dream House Of Americana That Grew And Grew
“Mrs. Henry D. Sleeper of Beacon St. is building a beautiful summer cottage in Gloucester, near the site of the…
Best Christmas Decorations Around Greater Boston
Below is Wonderland’s guide to dazzling holiday decorations around greater Boston, from Attleboro to Somerville (listed by community, in alphabetical…
The Curious, Edifying Boulders At The Heart Of Gloucester’s Dogtown Woods
In the woods at the heart of Gloucester lies a ghost town, the remnants of an abandoned English colonial settlement today…
'Cat Alley' Murals Honor Felines In Manchester, N.H.
Murals honoring cats fill the north side of Cat Alley, also known as Dean Avenue, just off Elm Street in…
Kohler's Art Preserve: Exploring The ‘World’s Largest Collection’ Of Visionary Environments
Ruth Kohler first heard about the home of Eugene Von Bruenchenhein and his wife Marie in January 1983. Eugene had recently…
Chelsea Celebrates Dia de los Muertos With Parade
Chelsea celebrated Dia de los Muertos with a parade from Chelsea City Hall to Chelsea Square this evening. Local artist…
Photos: 2022 Honk Festival in Somerville and Cambridge
Honk, the annual festival of activist street bands, arrives in Somerville and Cambridge this weekend. Begun here in 2006, the…
Bread And Puppet Theater's 'Apocalypse Defiance Circus'
Bread and Puppet Theater performed its “Apocalypse Defiance Circus” at its home base in Glover, Vermont, on Aug. 28 as…
Photos: Wake Up The Earth Festival
Photos of the Wake Up the Earth Festival at South-West Corridor Park at Stony Brook in Jamaica Plain, Boston, today.…
Osprey Along The Saugus River
Spotted an osprey eating what looked like a fish along the Saugus River and Northern Strand Community Trail in Saugus…
Silvia Lopez Chavez Paints 'Undercurrent' At Peabody Essex Museum
Silvia Lopez Chavez of Chelsea, Massachusetts, paints “Undercurrent” at the Peabody Essex Museum, March 12, 2022. It will be part…
Chelsea Celebrates Dia de los Muertos With Parade
Chelsea celebrated Dia de los Muertos with a parade from Chelsea City Hall to Chelsea Square this evening. Local artist…
Photos: 2022 Honk Festival in Somerville and Cambridge
Honk, the annual festival of activist street bands, arrives in Somerville and Cambridge this weekend. Begun here in 2006, the…
Pig Racing, Giant Pumpkins And Oxen At The Topsfield Fair
The annual Topsfield Fair in Topsfield, Massachusetts, from Sept. 30 to Oct. 10, 2022, offers giant pumpkins, racing pigs, an…
Alien Parade At Exeter UFO Festival
The Exeter UFO Festival’s Alien Parade traveled from Town House Common Park to the Bandstand outside Town Hall today. The…
Photos: St. Peter's Fiesta In Gloucester
Gloucester is celebrating its annual St. Peter’s Fiesta this week. The festival is a celebration of the community’s commercial fishing,…
Photos: Wake Up The Earth Festival
Photos of the Wake Up the Earth Festival at South-West Corridor Park at Stony Brook in Jamaica Plain, Boston, today.…
'Age of Roe' Surveys Activism For And Against Legal Abortion In U.S.
“The Age of Roe: The Past, Present, and Future of Abortion in America” at Harvard Radcliffe Institute Schlesinger Library’s Poorvu…
MLK Memorial 'The Embrace' Unveiled At Boston Common
“This work is really about the capacity for each of us to be enveloped in love, and I feel enveloped…
Wee The People Anti-Racism Workshops Cancelled By Westwood Schools
Was an Instragram post by Wee The People the reason Westwood Public Schools cancelled anti-racism workshops it had scheduled by…
'Time to Panic!' Extinction Rebellion Addresses Global Warming
“Earth Day 2022, Time to Panic! The art of protest in the age of climate crisis” at Storefront Art Projects,…
Photos: Honk Festival In Somerville, Cambridge And Boston
Honk, the annual festival of activist street bands, returned yesterday, after taking a year off from live performances to help…
10th Anniversary Of Occupy Boston
Today is the 10th anniversary of the beginning of Occupy Boston at Boston’s Dewey Square, opposite the Federal Reserve Bank…