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 →
“Holiday Magic at the Disney Parks: Celebrations Around the World from Fall to Winter” by Graham Allan, Rebecca Cline and Charlie Prince (Disney Editions) is a big, lavishly illustrated, 384-page photo…Continue Reading →
Michael Bobbitt—the artistic director at New Repertory Theatre in Watertown since March 2019—has been named the next executive director of the Massachusetts Cultural Council, the state arts agency announced. The…Continue Reading →
Below is Wonderland’s guide to dazzling holiday decorations around greater Boston, from Attleboro to Somerville (listed by community, in alphabetical order). This is based on several years exploring region during…Continue Reading →
Brian Kennedy plans to step down from his position as Director and CEO of the Peabody Essex Museum on Dec. 31, after leading the Salem institution since July of last…Continue Reading →
“It is the best place in town for a display, but it just happens to be our land,” Andy Mack Sr. told the Eagle Tribune newspaper in 2007. Mack runs…Continue Reading →