Lions, gorillas, orangutans, sea lions and more at Brookfield Zoo, outside Chicago. If this is the kind of coverage of arts, cultures and activisms you appreciate, please support Wonderland by…Continue Reading →
“Chicago Comics: 1960s to Now” at Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art from June 19 to Oct. 3, 2021, is intended as “a celebration of Chicago’s pivotal role as a national…Continue Reading →
“African people are the forerunners, innovators, creators, the hip. African people are my motivation,” Wadsworth Jarrell, one of the founders of AfriCOBRA (African Commune of Bad Relevant Artists), said in…Continue Reading →
Joseph Yoakum (1890-1972) often jotted the locations of his abstracted landscape drawings in the top left of the pictures—the Florida Everglades, the Mississippi River, Utah canyons, New Orleans’ Lake Pontchartrain,…Continue Reading →
In the mid 1960s, Jim Falconer and Jim Nutt—recent graduates of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, who’d met working at Chicago’s Allan Frumkin Gallery (which exhibited H.C.…Continue Reading →
In August 1967, a group of 14 African American artists began painting a 60-foot-wide mural on the side of a run-down tavern at the corner of 43rd Street and Langley…Continue Reading →
Photos of a polar bear playing in a snowstorm at Chicago’s Lincoln Park Zoo, Dec. 29, 2017. (Copyright Greg Cook)Continue Reading →