Martha Friend Brings ‘Blue’ To Somerville Museum
“Blue” at the Somerville Museum is a dream pairing of curator and theme. The group exhibition—on view from Sept. 21 to Dec. 2, 2023—is organized by found object and assemblage…Continue Reading →
Gu Wenda’s ‘United Nations’ Of Hair
Chinese born, New York- and Shanghai-based artist Gu Wenda “United Nations,” at Salem’s Peabody Essex Museum from April 1 to Nov. 5, 2023, fills the long, narrow, three-story tall atrium…Continue Reading →
Giant Troll Takes Over Thomas Saltsman’s Marblehead Driveway
Architect Thomas Saltsman, of the Boston firm SaltsmanBrenzel, has become a sensation for the giant installations that have taken over his Marblehead driveway each Halloween for the past several years.…Continue Reading →
In Mystical Installations, Saya Woolfalk Imagines ‘Utopian Possibilities Of Cultural Hybridity’
For years, Saya Woolfalk’s artworks have detailed her imaginings of the “Empathics,” her “fictional race of women who are able to alter their genetic make-up and fuse with plants. With each…Continue Reading →
Roxbury Open Studios: Napoleon Jones-Henderson, Ekua Holmes
Some photos from the Roxbury Open Studios in Boston on Oct. 7, 2023. If this is the kind of coverage of arts, cultures and activisms you appreciate, please support Wonderland…Continue Reading →
Photos: Honk Parade From Somerville To Cambridge
Honk, the annual festival of activist street bands, arrived in Somerville and Cambridge this weekend. Begun here in 2006, the festival has spawned a worldwide movement. These photos are from…Continue Reading →
Tiefling’s Paintings For Today’s ‘Dystopian Digital Gods’
“Instrumentality” by Boston artist and experimental musician Jack Salvucci aka Tiefling was on view at Shoe Bones Gallery, 28 Boston St., Salem, from Sept. 2 to Oct. 5, 2025. The…Continue Reading →
Listening For Bats At Mount Auburn Cemetery
The group of nine of us began looking and listening for bats at Cambridge’s Mount Auburn Cemetery as night fell last Wednesday evening. Christopher Richardson, a biology teacher at Tufts…Continue Reading →
Gerry Bergstein Paints A World Full Of Dire Emergencies
“Gerry Bergstein: Dithering Machines” at Boston’s Gallery Naga from September 5 to 30, 2023, can give the feeling of peeking in a Renaissance master’s sketchbook imaginings of the end of…Continue Reading →
Somerville Toy Camera Festival Turns 10
This fall marks the 10th anniversary of the Somerville Toy Camera Festival. What is a “toy camera”? The 89 photos featured in three exhibitions across Somerville are made with simple…Continue Reading →