Art and activism and coronavirus across Boston and New England in 2020.
Previously:
• Wonderland’s Most-Read Posts Of 2020
• The Year In Photos: Art And Activism In 2019
• Wonderland’s Most-Read Posts Of 2019
• The 30 Most Popular Wonderland Posts Of 2018
• The Year In Photos: Art And Activism In 2018
• The Year In Photos: Art And Activism In 2017
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Robson Lemos prepares a Brazilian-style meal at Nibble Kitchen, launched by the Somerville Arts Council at Bow Market in Union Square, Jan. 20, 2020. (©Greg Cook photo)
Pixie Dance of FJW Dance Studio performed at Chinese Culture Connection’s annual Lunar New Year Celebration at Malden High School, Jan. 18, 2020. (Greg Cook photo)
Gund Kwok Asian Women’s Lion Dance Troupe performed at the Lunar New Year Festival at Salem’s Peabody Essex Museum, Jan. 25, 2020. (Greg Cook)
Protesters demand “Ethnic Studies Now” and “Want Diversity? Teach Our Histories” at Harvard’s Smith Campus Center, Cambridge, Jan. 30, 2020. (©Greg Cook photo)
Gloria Steinem takes the stage at the conclusion of the opening night performance of “Gloria: A Life” at American Repertory Theater, Cambridge, Jan. 30, 2020. (© Greg Cook photo)
The MassArt Art Museum debuted with Joana Vasconceloys’s installation “Valkyrie Mumbet”, Feb. 25, 2020. (©Greg Cook photo)
The cast of J. Sylvan’s “Beloved King” performs a dress rehearsal at Oberon in Cambridge on March 12, 2020. The musical was scheduled to debut with two sold-out performances that night, but was canceled because of coronavirus. (©Greg Cook/Cambridge Arts)
Stone Zoo in Stoneham, March 20, 2020. (Greg Cook photo)
Shelter In Place Gallery exhibition of Andrew Haines, March 2020. (Courtesy Eben Haines)
Stop & Shop toilet paper aisle in Saugus, March 20, 2020. (Greg Cook photo)
Peter Agoos with his guerrilla art installation “PPE for Antonio López Garcia’s ‘DAY’” at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts, March 22, 2020. (Courtesy Peter Agoos)
Nancy Schon’s 1987 “Make Way for Ducklings” statues wear masks to protect them from coronavirus at Boston Public Garden, March 22, 2020. (Greg Cook photo)
Bewitched statue on Washington Street in Salem in a coronavirus mask, April 4, 2020. (Greg Cook photo)
A climber descends Quincy Quarries, April 7, 2020. (©Greg Cook photo)
Windstorm at Lynn Shore Drive, near Red Rock Park, Lynn, April 13, 2020. (Greg Cook photo)
Flooding from a water main break flooded galleries and submerged vehicles along Harrison Avenue at Perry Street in Boston, April 14, 2020. (Boston Fire Department photo)
“We See You / We Thank You” coronavirus mural by Anna Dugan on Salem’s Lafayette Street, May 22, 2020. (©Greg Cook photo)
A police sign at Gloucester’s Fisherman statue warns to “social distance,” May 29, 2020. (©Greg Cook photo)
Thousands gathered in Boston’s Peters Park to protest the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police. May 29, 2020. (Greg Cook photo)
Thousands gathered in Boston’s Peters Park to protest the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police. May 29, 2020. (Greg Cook photo)
A Newbury Street boutique is boarded up after looting following a Black Lives Matter protest in downtown Boston on May 31, 2020. (©Greg Cook photo)
Food Aid To East Boston Families Continues At ICA’s Watershed. (Courtesy)
Black Lives Matter March in Malden, Massachusetts, June 5, (© Greg Cook photo)
Black Lives Matter March in Malden, Massachusetts, June 5, (© Greg Cook photo)
“Black Lives Matter” mural at Graffiti Alley, Central Square, Cambridge, June 18, 2020. (© Greg Cook photo)
Many complained of more fireworks being shot off in neighborhoods than usual during summer 2020. A sign on Route 93 in Boston warns “Fireworks are Illegal,” June 23, 2020. (©Greg Cook photo)
A Night of Prayer for Racial Justice at Malden High School, June 26, 2020. (©Greg Cook photo)
Artists and supporters of the African American Master Artists In Residence Program protest outside the studios building at 76 Atherton St. in Boston’s Jamaica Plain neighborhood, June 27, 2020. (Photo © copyright Don West / fOTOGRAfIKS)
The Lego giraffe standing in front of Somerville’s Legoland Discovery Center now wears a coronavirus mask, June 2020. (© Greg Cook photo)
“Independence Day March” against injustice organized by Demilitarize Gloucester at Gloucester’s waterfront, July 4, 2020. (© Greg Cook photo)
The artists who painted the “Black Lives Matter” street mural on Washington Street in Boston’s Nubian Square, surround Black Market owners Chris and Kai Grant (in chair), July 5, 2020. (© Greg Cook photo)
“Black Lives Matter” street mural on Washington Street in Boston’s Nubian Square, July 5, 2020. (Courtesy Black Market Nubian)
Curtis Williams begins a mural at Boston’s Madison Park Technical Vocational High School, July 5, 2020. (© Greg Cook photo)
Rob “ProBlak” Gibbs paints his “Breathe Life” mural at Boston’s Madison Park Technical Vocational High School, July 5, 2020. (© Greg Cook photo)
Xerxes Butt works on a mosaic with David Fichter at Cambridge’s Moses Brown Youth Center, July 6, 2020. (© Greg Cook photo)
“This mural celebrates the joys of going to your local park with scenes such as bike riding, dog walking, and gardening,” Cambridge artist Monique Aimee said of the artwork she painted across the city’s new brine tanks at St. Peter’s Field, next to Danehy Park, in July. “The purpose of these brine tanks is to have a better environmental impact, so I wanted to make sure the theme of nature and growth is present from any angle. This mural also highlights a bit of the history of the clay pits and brickyards in the 1800’s that would eventually become Danehy Park.” (©Greg Cook/Cambridge Arts)
Marcus Santos of Grooversity drums in Somerville’s Davis Square as part of a socially-distanced 2020 ArtBeat festival from the Somerville Arts Council, July 17, 2020. (©Greg Cook photo)
The Marquee of the Somerville Theatre in Davis Square says “Stay Home & Be Safe / We Will Reopen Soon,” July 17, 2020. (©Greg Cook photo)
Teachers rallying outside the Massachusetts Department of Education headquarters in Malden to demand remote schooling to prevent the spread of coronavirus, July 30, 2020. (©Kari Percival photo)
Shaina Lu (foreground) and Rayna Lo painting mural at Wah Lum Kung Fu & Thai Chi Academy in Malden, Aug. 8, 2020. (Photo ©Greg Cook)
“Boston Lights: A Lantern Experience” at the Franklin Park Zoo, Boston, Aug. 20, 2020. (© Greg Cook photo)
Greg Curci (on ladder) and an assistant restore Vusumuzi Maduna’s 1981 “Inner City Totem I” for Cambridge Arts at the Cambridge Community Center, Aug. 22, 2020. (© Greg Cook/Cambridge Arts)
Biden and Black Lives Matter supporters in Concord, Sept. 7, 2020. (©Greg Cook photo)
Silvia Lopez Chavez painting her mural for “Sea Walls: Artists for Oceans, Boston 2020,” from PangeaSeed Foundation in collaboration with HarborArts at the Boston Harbor Shipyard in East Boston, Sept. 18, 2020. (© Greg Cook photo)
Family members of Darryl Willis, who was fatally struck by a truck in Cambridge’s Harvard Square on Aug. 18, place flowers on a ghost bike set there in his memory on Sept. 19, 2020. (© Greg Cook photo)
Leatherback turtle being reinstalled at Salem’s Peabody Essex Museum, 2020. (Photo: Kathy Tarantola)
Sculptures by Andy Merlin (left) and Donna Dodson (right) on the lawn of their Summer Street home in Maynard, Sept. 29, 2020. (©Greg Cook photo)
New England for Trump Store on Route 1, Peabody, Oct. 3, 2020. (©Greg Cook photo)
Anti-Trump sign in Boxford, Oct. 3, 2020. (©Greg Cook photo)
“Make Way for Ducklings” statues in Boston Public Garden outfitted with lacy collars in honor of Ruth Bader Ginsburg by Karyn Alzayer, Oct. 3, 2020. (Photo by Daud Alzayer)
Alexandre Keto paints his “Doña Patria” mural at 102 Broadway, Somerville, October 2020. (Photo by Iaritza Menjivar/Somerville Arts Council)
Luis “Take1” Taforo (left) and Genaro “GoFive” Ortega paint a mural of singer Nina Simone at Salem’s Punto Urban Art Museum, Oct. 11, 2020. (©Greg Cook photo)
Halloween decorations at the home of Andrew Pacheco on Springfield Street, Somerville, Oct. 23, 2020. (©Greg Cook photo)
Turkey and police officer, Somerville Avenue at Central Street, Somerville, Nov. 6, 2020. (©Greg Cook photo 2020)
Trump supporters in Ayer on Nov. 7, 2020, the day Joseph Biden was first declared winner of the 2020 presidential election. (©Greg Cook photo)
Black Lives Matter activists in front of First Universalist Church of Essex, Dec. 6, 2020. (©Greg Cook photo)
“MAGA Make the Asshole Go Away” sign at Blackburn Industrial Park, Gloucester, Dec. 20, 2020. (©Greg Cook photo)
Dogtown, Gloucester, Dec. 20, 2020. (©Greg Cook photo)
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