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 →
![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 →
Kimsooja Invites You To Roll A Ball Of Clay And Reshape Your Mind
“Archive of Mind” by South Korean artist Kimsooja invites you to sit at a large oval wooden table, spotlit in a darkened gallery at Salem’s Peabody Essex Museum, and shape…Continue Reading →
Construction of Somerville’s ArtFarm Could Begin Next Spring
Disclosure: I’ve worked with the Somerville Arts Council to present festivals in the city. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *…Continue Reading →
Maira Kalman: ‘If You Don’t Digress And Go Off The Point, I Think You Miss The Point’
“There’s absolutely nothing you can’t talk to children about. They want to know the truth,” author and illustrator Maira Kalman says during a tour of her new exhibition “The Pursuit…Continue Reading →
The Secret Art Of The Godfather Of Boston Punk, Willie Alexander
“It’s here. It’s life. It’s everything. Bam!” Willie “Loco” Alexander tells me as we tour a retrospective of his paintings and collages at the Manship Artist Residency + Studios in…Continue Reading →