Reconsidering Ancient Nubia At The MFA
“Ancient Nubia Now”—on view at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts from Oct. 13, 2019, to Jan. 20, 2020—showcases treasures from ancient north African kingdoms that flourished along the Nile Valley…Continue Reading →
Jeffu Warmouth’s Giant Inflated Head Stuffed With Ideas, Daily Concerns, Neuroses
The centerpiece of Jeffu Warmouth’s exhibition “Urgent Blowout,” at Boston Sculptors Gallery from Dec. 11, 2019, to Jan. 26, 2020, is the Groton sculptor’s funny, freaky self-portrait. Also titled “Urgent…Continue Reading →
Joseph Wheelwright Found The Fairy Tales Within Sticks And Stones And Bones
Joseph Wheelwright’s sculptures originate in myths or fairy tales—crescent moons with dreamy faces; ancient personages that seem to emerge from within boulders; magical forest-people created from uprooted trees towering nearly…Continue Reading →
Free! How To Get Into New England Museums Without Paying
Wondering how to get into a New England museum without paying? Below is Wonderland’s guide to free days at institutions when an average Massachusetts grownup resident can get in for…Continue Reading →
Can You Recognize These Gingerbread Landmarks From Boston Architects?
Each year the Boston Society of Architects’ “Gingerbread Design Competition and Exhibition”–on view at BSA Space, 290 Congress St., Boston, from Dec. 7, 2019, to Jan. 2, 2020–invites local landscape…Continue Reading →
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 →