Wonderland’s Most-Read Posts Of 2019
Below are Wonderland’s most popular posts of 2019, the ones that brought in the most readers and bots. Thanks everyone for joining me this year! If this is the kind…Continue Reading →
The Year In Photos: Art And Activism In 2019
Art and activism across Boston and New England as I witnessed it in 2019. (Note: Some photos feature events by Cambridge Arts, where I work part-time, as well as Wonderland…Continue Reading →
Joe Coleman’s Visionary Icons Of Outlaws And Depraved Souls
Joe Coleman’s paintings of outlaws and depraved souls can bring to mind sordid circus sideshow banners, holy medieval manuscript illumination, narrative murals, 1960s underground comics, and the obsessive ravings of…Continue Reading →
Two Yayoi Kusama Exhibits In New York Offer An Overview Of Her Visionary Art
The wait was about 20 minutes in the cold on an early December Thursday afternoon for one minute inside Yayoi Kusama’s new “Infinity Mirrored Room – Dancing Lights That Flew Up…Continue Reading →
How I Ended Up In A Boat With Captain Ahab Chasing The White Whale In A.R.T.’s ‘Moby-Dick’
Perhaps I should have been mindful that stepping into any boat with Captain Ahab—who doomed his crew via his maniacal pursuit of revenge upon the white whale that took his…Continue Reading →
Photos: Bread & Puppet’s ‘Honey Let’s Go Home! Opera’
When people think of Bread and Puppet Theater, they naturally tend to think of the giant puppets and the garlic-slathered sourdough bread that the company serves after performances. But it…Continue Reading →
An Evening Of Crankies—‘The Original Moving Pictures’—With Katherine Fahey And Friends
“They were like the original moving pictures,” says Katherine Fahey of “An Evening of Crankies,” which she performs at Puppet Showplace Theater in Brookline on Monday, Dec. 9, at 7:30…Continue Reading →
Lost Mitten
Spotted in the Chelsea neighborhood of New York City, Dec. 5, 2019. If this is the kind of coverage of arts, cultures and activisms you appreciate, please support Wonderland by…Continue Reading →
![The Rendille of northern Kenya’s Kaisut Desert: "Throughout the [Herr Heroon, or bull] ceremony, warriors gather in small groups to perform leaping dances, expressing their unity as a generation. When two warriors leap together the dance is called woyee," Carol Beckwith and Angela Fisher write in "African Twilight: The Vanishing Rituals and Ceremonies of the African Continent," 2018. (Rizzoli)](https://gregcookland.com/wonderland/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/AfricanTwilight_Book1_p111w530.jpg)
Carol Beckwith And Angela Fisher, Photographers Of African Traditions, Speak At Harvard Dec. 5
For four decades, American born Carol Beckwith and Australian Angela Fisher have journeyed over 300,000 miles across the African continent, travelling through 44 countries to document more than 150 traditional…Continue Reading →
Photos: Annual AIDS Vigil at Boston Cyclorama
The 28th annual “24 Hour Vigil – Day With(Out) Art -World AIDS Day” art installation took place at the Boston Center for the Arts Cyclorama on Tremont Street on Sunday,…Continue Reading →