The City of Somerville moved forward with a plan to acquire the Somerville Armory building at 191 Highland Ave. and “preserve the facility for arts uses” with an unanimous vote…Continue Reading →
Surrounded by skyscrapers, amidst the lush greenery of New York’s Madison Square Park, now stands a grove of 49 dead Atlantic white cedars. The barren trunks and branches reach four…Continue Reading →
“At every turn this country has the opportunity to do the right thing, they don’t,” James Ari Montford tells me. We talked recently about his exhibition “Indigenous Voice” at Howard…Continue Reading →
Nicole Duennebier collects marvels and intriguing facts, “curiosity cabinet things.” Did you know, the Malden-based artist asks, that in captivity a katydid will grow hot pink if there are no…Continue Reading →
“I really dreamed of a performance piece. And it was right after Kamala [Harris] was elected vice president,” explains Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons of the art film “When We Gather” that…Continue Reading →
A family of refugees from the Syrian war makes their harrowing escape to New Haven, Connecticut, in the non-fiction comic “Welcome to the New World,” with words by Jake Halpern…Continue Reading →
Goodbye to our friend Remi Paillard, a part of the Bread and Puppet Theater for decades. He died Monday. Here are photos I took of him over a number of…Continue Reading →
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 •…Continue Reading →
Below are Wonderland’s most clicked-on posts of 2020, the ones that brought in the most readers and bots. When I published my first coronavirus post on March 7, I had…Continue Reading →
For a number of years now, artists from Vermont Arts Exchange in North Bennington, Vermont, have been painting designs across the town’s snowplows. Last year, Rhonda Ratray, a teaching artist…Continue Reading →