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![\"Jess](\"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/picDuganSelf-portraitBostonw-768x1024.jpg\")
<\/a>\u201cJess Dugan: Every Breath We Drew,\u201d<\/a> Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, Massachusetts, Jan. 14 to March 16, 2019<\/h3>\nDugan, who studied at Massachusetts College of Art and Design and Harvard before heading off to Chicago and St. Louis, is known for documenting LGBTQ communities. This show of photos, Dugan writes, \u201cof men and masculine individuals act as a kind of mirror; they depict the type of gentle masculinity I am attracted to, and also the kind I want to embody. Similarly, the photographs of relationships speak to a drive to be seen, understood, and desired through the eyes of another person; a reflection of the self as the ultimate intimate connection.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n![\"Nina](\"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/picAbneyILeftThreeDay-Ago_LSCDetroit2016w-1024x642.jpg\")
<\/a>Nina Chanel Abney, \u201cI Left Three Days Ago,\u201d 2016. Acrylic and spray paint. Library Street Collective, Detroit, Michigan. (Courtesy of Nina Chanel Abney studio.)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nNina Chanel Abney<\/a>, Institute of Contemporary Art lobby art wall, Boston, Jan. 17, 2019, to March 15, 2020<\/h3>\nThe New York artist turns social commentary into bold graphic paintings. For the ICA, she plans a mural about \u201csocial tensions in the digital age, including the constant stream of true and false information, the dilemma of liberal racism, and abuses of power that lead to structural inequality.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n![\"Suara](\"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/picWelitoffFiveYearsLater2013w-1024x769.jpg\")
<\/a>Suara Welitoff, \u201cFive years later,\u201d 2013, continuously looping video (silent). (Courtesy)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cSuara Welitoff: Right Now This Moment,\u201d<\/a> School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts, Grossman Gallery, Boston, Jan. 23 to April 7, 2019<\/h3>\nTwelve videos from the past five years\u2014including three new works\u2014by the Cambridge artist known for slowing and looping historic films, television and the Internet to create surreal poetic moments.<\/p>\n
\n![\"Claude](\"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/picMonetWaterlooBridgeVeiledSunw-1024x663.jpg\")
<\/a>Claude Monet, \u201cWaterloo Bridge, Veiled Sun,\u201d 1903, oil on canvas. (Couresy of the Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cMonet\u2019s Waterloo Bridge: Vision and Process,\u201d<\/a> Worcester Art Museum, Jan. 25 to April 28, 2019<\/h3>\nNine of Claude Monet\u2019s ethereal visions of London’s Waterloo Bridge. Plus fresh research into the French Impressionist\u2019s methods via new imaging and materials analysis.<\/p>\n
\n![\"Tom](\"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/picKieferWaterBottlesw-949x1024.jpg\")
<\/a>Tom Kiefer, \u201cWater Bottles.\u201d (Courtesy)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cTom Kiefer: El Sue\u00f1o Americano \u2013 The American Dream,\u201d<\/a> Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, Massachusetts, Jan. 26 to July 28, 2019<\/h3>\nArizona photographer Tom Kiefer documents belongings left behind by migrants arrested near a U.S. Customs and Border Patrol outpost in southern Arizona.<\/p>\n
\n![\"A](\"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/picWelcome-Blanketw-1024x685.jpg\")
<\/a>A selection of \u201cWelcome Blankets.\u201d (Michael Tropea photo, courtesy of the Smart Museum of Art)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cWelcome Blanket,\u201d<\/a> Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, Massachusetts, Jan. 26 to Feb. 17, 2019<\/h3>\nIn protest of President Trump\u2019s proposed border wall, the \u201cWelcome Blanket\u201d is a participatory, global initiative conceived by Los Angeles artist Jayna Zweiman. Zweiman, a co-founder of the Pussyhat Project, to knit enough coverlets to stretch across the 2,000-mile span. The exhibit features some of the blankets, which organizers plan to distribute through immigration organizations, refugee resettlement agencies, and other community groups.<\/p>\n
\n![\"Howardena](\"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/picHowardenaPindellUntitled5BKrakatoa.w.jpg\")
<\/a>Howardena Pindell, \u201cUntitled #5B (Krakatoa),\u201d 2007, mixed media on paper collage. (Courtesy of the artist and Garth Greenan Gallery, New York)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nHowardena Pindell \u201cWhat Remains to Be Seen,\u201d<\/a> Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, Feb. 1 to May 19, 2019<\/h3>\nFigurative paintings, abstractions, conceptual works, and personal and political art by a New York-based African American artist operating at the intersection of art and activism.<\/p>\n
\n![\"Alexandre](\"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/picHogueCrucifiedw-1024x718.jpg\")
<\/a>Alexandre Hogue, \u201cCrucifed Land,\u201d 1939, oil on canvas. (\u00a9 Estate of Alexandre Hogue)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cNature’s Nation: American Art and Environment,\u201d<\/a> Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts, Feb. 2 to May 5, 2019.<\/h3>\nA look at how American and Native American artists have reflected and shaped our understanding of the environment\u2014via more than 100 artworks from the colonial occupation to the present by John James Audubon, Albert Bierstadt, Thomas Cole, Valerie Hegarty, Winslow Homer, Georgia O\u2019Keeffe, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith (Salish-Kootenai) and others.<\/p>\n
\n![\"Milton](\"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/picRogovinLowerWestSide1974w.jpg\")
<\/a>Milton Rogovin, \u201cBuffalo, New York, from the series Lower West Side,\u201d 1974, gelatin silver print. (Courtesy)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cBread and Roses: The Social Documentary of Milton and Anna Rogovin,\u201d<\/a> Davis Museum, Wellesley, Massachusetts, Feb. 7 to June 9, 2019.<\/h3>\nAmidst anti-Communist Cold War crackdowns, Milton Rogovin was labeled the \u201cTop Red in Buffalo,\u201d New York, in 1957. Isolated and ostracized, the optometrist, social activist, and self-taught photographer and his wife Anna began photographing their Buffalo neighbors in their homes and work places (always giving their sitters a copy of their photographs) to create a decades-long, multigenerational portrait of their community.<\/p>\n
\n![\"Kapwani](\"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/picKiwangaJalousie2018w-1024x894.jpg\")
<\/a>Kapwani Kiwanga, \u201cJalousie,\u201d 2018. (Courtesy Galerie J\u00e9r\u00f4me Poggi. Paris. Photo: John Dean)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nKapwani Kiwanga<\/a>, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, Feb. 8 to April 21, 2019<\/h3>\nThe Paris-based artist uses sculpture, installation, photography, video and performance to trace \u201chistorical narratives, excavating and considering the global impact of colonialism and how it permeates contemporary culture.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n![\"Lucia](\"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/picMoholy_BauhausMastersHousingw-1024x632.jpg\")
<\/a>Lucia Moholy, \u201cBauhaus Masters Housing, Dessau, 1925\u201326: Lucia Moholy and L\u00e1szl\u00f3 Moholy-Nagy’s Living Room,\u201d c. 1925, gelatin silver print with gouache retouchings. (\u00a9 Lucia Moholy Estate\/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York\/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn. \u00a9 President and Fellows of Harvard College)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cThe Bauhaus and Harvard,\u201d<\/a> Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, Feb. 8 to July 28, 2019<\/h3>\nLocal exhibitions are honoring the 100th anniversary of the founding in 1919 of the Bauhaus, the influential German school that aimed to unify art, architecture and design. It\u2019s particularly known for a machine-inspired aesthetic of Modern, mass-produced design\u2014before the school was closed under pressure from the Nazis in 1933 and many of its stars fled to the United States. Harvard\u2019s exhibition showcases nearly 200 works by 74 artists, drawn almost entirely the school\u2019s Busch-Reisinger Museum, which claims the largest Bauhaus collection outside Germany (initiated and assembled through the efforts of founding director Walter Gropius, who joined Harvard\u2019s department of architecture in 1937, and many refugee teachers and students). Also Boston\u2019s Museum of Fine Arts offers \u201cRadical Geometries: Bauhaus Prints, 1919-33,\u201d<\/a> from Feb. 9 to June 23, 2019, and Cambridge\u2019s MIT Museum presents \u201cFragments of the World,\u201d<\/a> Bauhaus photography, from March 28 to Sept. 2, 2019.<\/p>\n
\n![\"Randa](\"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/picMaroufiNabila-keltoumw.jpg\")
<\/a>Randa Maroufi, “Nabila et Keltoum,” 2015.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cLooking Out, Looking In: Contemporary Artists from Morocco,\u201d<\/a> Boston University\u2019s Stone Gallery, 855 Commonwealth Ave., Boston, Feb. 8 to March 31, 2019<\/h3>\nDispatches from Morocco by seven photographers and videographers from the nation examine how outsiders see the country and how its people see themselves.<\/p>\n
\n![\"Otto](\"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/picPienePlusquamperfect_2003w.jpg\")
<\/a>Otto Piene, \u201cPlusquamperfect (Past Perfect Participle,\u201d 2003, oil and fire on canvas. (Photo \u00a9 Ante Glibota)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cFire and Light: Otto Piene in Groton, 1983\u20132014,\u201d<\/a> Fitchburg Art Museum, Massachusetts Feb. 9 to June 2, 2019<\/h3>\nIn the mid-1980s, Otto Piene\u2014a German-raised artist of kinetic light sculptures and monumental balloon installations who became a fellow at Massachusetts Institute of Technology\u2019s Center for Advanced Visual Studies in 1968 and went on to serve as director from 1974 to 1994\u2014bought a home in Groton, Massachusetts. There he experimented with new projects, creating \u201cfire paintings\u201d and filling a grain silo with a \u201cLight Ballet.\u201d This survey ranges from Piene\u2019s \u201cLight Robots,\u201d completed in 2013, to \u201cProliferation of the Sun,\u201d an immersive installation, not seen in the United States since 1968, of digitized hand-painted slides that are projected onto a large inflatable sphere and screens.<\/p>\n
\n![\"Hope](\"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/picLarsonWrinkleInTimew-1024x712.jpg\")
<\/a>Hope Larson, Illustration for \u201cA Wrinkle in Time: The Graphic Novel.\u201d (\u00a9 2012 Hope Larson)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cOut of the Box: The Graphic Novel Comes of Age,\u201d<\/a> Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art, Amherst, Massachusetts, Feb. 10 to May 26, 2019<\/h3>\nThe revolutions of underground comics in the 1960s and \u201870s and alternative comics in the 1980s and \u201890s pioneered complex comics for grown-ups and at novel lengths. As the \u201cgraphic novel\u201d has matured since, a new crop of artists have begun making comics for kids again\u2014sophisticated, young adult, book-length comics. Children\u2019s book scholar Leonard S. Marcus rounds up poignant coming-of-age stories by the top of the field: Vera Brosgol, Catia Chien, Geoffrey Hayes, Gene Luen Yang, Jarrett J. Krosoczka, Hope Larson, Matt Phelan, David Small, Raina Telgemeier, and Sara Varon.<\/p>\n
\n![\"Sandro](\"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/picBotticelliStoryOfLucretiaw-1024x537.jpg\")
<\/a>Sandro Botticelli, \u201cThe Story of Lucretia,\u201d c. 1500, tempera and oil on panel. (Courtesy Gardner Museum)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nBotticelli: Heroines and Heroes,\u201d<\/a> Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, Feb. 14 to May 19, 2019<\/h3>\nA look at the Renaissance star Sandro Botticelli via eight monumental paintings and drawings, some never before seen in the United States, that tell the stories of Roman Catholic saints and ancient Roman kidnappings and sexual assault.<\/p>\n
\n![\"Wild](\"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/picWildKratsw-1024x880.jpg\")
<\/a>Wild Kratts “Ocean Adventure”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cWild Kratts: Ocean Adventure!\u201d<\/a> Museum of Science, Boston, opens Feb. 16, 2019<\/h3>\nMuch as in the hit animated nature adventures of PBS\u2019s \u201cWild Kratts,\u201d kids can help brothers Chris and Martin Kratt assist marine animals and foil villains\u2019 plans with technology, science and teamwork, as they learn about the seashore, shallow waters, and the deep sea.<\/p>\n
\n![\"Frida](\"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/picKahloSelf-PortraitWithHummingbirdw-1024x768.jpg\")
<\/a>Frida Kahlo, \u201cSelf-Portrait with Hummingbird and Thorn Necklace (detail),\u201d 1940, oil on canvas. (\u00a9 2018 Banco de M\u00e9xico Diego Rivera Frida Kahlo Museums Trust, Mexico, D.F. \/ Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cFrida Kahlo and Arte Popular,\u201d<\/a> Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Feb. 27 to June 16, 2019<\/h3>\nA rare showcase of paintings by Kahlo (1907-1954) along with \u201carte popular\u201d (folk art) ceramics, embroidered textiles, papier-m\u00e2ch\u00e9 effigies and devotional retablo paintings that inspired the Mexican artist. (If you can\u2019t get enough Kahlo, New York\u2019s Brooklyn Museum offers \u201cFrida Kahlo: Appearances Can Be Deceiving\u201d<\/a> from Feb. 8 to May 12.)<\/p>\n
\n![\"Photographer](\"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/picRubeGoldbergw-1024x821.jpg\")
<\/a>Photographer unknown, \u201cRube Goldberg at the Famous Artists School,\u201d ca.1947. (Courtesy of Norman Rockwell Museum)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cThe Art and Wit of Rube Goldberg,\u201d<\/a> Norman Rockwell Museum, Stockbridge, Massachusetts, March 2 to June 9, 2019<\/h3>\nIn 1912, a New York newspaper cartoonist by the name of Reuben \u201cRube\u201d Goldberg began drawing a series of strips featuring terribly complex machines designed to comically accomplish simple tasks. They were so popular that to this day unnecessarily complicated contraptions are known as \u201cRube Goldberg Machines\u201d\u2014though we\u2019ve forgotten him otherwise. Discover Goldberg\u2019s art in this survey of his career.<\/p>\n
\n![\"Trenton](\"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/picBranchesBecameStormw-1024x969.jpg\")
<\/a>Trenton Doyle Hancock, \u201cAnd the Branches Became as Storm Clouds,\u201d 2003, mixed media on canvas.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nTrenton Doyle Hancock \u201cMind of the Mound: Critical Mass,\u201d<\/a> Mass MoCA, North Adams, Massachusetts, opens March 9, 2019<\/h3>\nInspired by comics, Greek mythology and his evangelical Baptist upbringing, the Houston artist deploys paintings, sculpture, drawings, prints, installations and performance to tell his story of the Mounds (\u201cgentle hybrid plant-like creatures\u201d), protected by his alter ego\/superhero Torpedo Boy, and their enemies, the Vegans (\u201cmutants who consume tofu and spill Mound blood every chance they get\u201d).<\/p>\n
\n![\"Alessandro](\"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/picTrinconeAnnodamiw-1024x768.jpg\")
<\/a>Alessandro Trincone, \u201cAnnodami (detail),\u201d January 2016. (Photographer: Gioconda & August. Model: Andrea Antonelli)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cGender Bending Fashion,\u201d<\/a> Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, March 16 to Aug. 25, 2019.<\/h3>\nMore than 60 \u201cboundary-pushing designs\u201d recount a century of haute couture and ready-to-wear fashion that has challenged rigid, binary definitions of dress. Including designs by Rad Hourani, Jean Paul Gaultier, Alessandro Michele for Gucci, Palomo, and Rei Kawakubo, as well as pieces worn by Marlene Dietrich, David Bowie, Jimi Hendrix and Young Thug.<\/p>\n
\n![\"Huma](\"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/picBhabha_The-Orientalistw-684x1024.jpg\")
<\/a>Huma Bhabha, \u201cThe Orientalist,\u201d 2007, bronze. (\u00a9 Huma Bhabha)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cHuma Bhabha: They Live,\u201d<\/a> Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, March 23 to May 27, 2019<\/h3>\nThe ICA bills this exhibition as \u201cthe largest survey\u201d ever of Bhabha, who was raised in Pakistan and is now based in Poughkeepsie, New York. It features drawings, photos, and her monstrous, rough-hewn, expressionist figurative sculptures. \u201cHer work transcends a singular time and place, instead creating an exploration of what she describes as the \u2018eternal concerns\u2019 found across all cultures: war, colonialism, displacement, and memories of home.\u201d<\/p>\n
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<\/a>Nina Chanel Abney<\/a>, Institute of Contemporary Art lobby art wall, Boston, Jan. 17, 2019, to March 15, 2020<\/h3>\nThe New York artist turns social commentary into bold graphic paintings. For the ICA, she plans a mural about \u201csocial tensions in the digital age, including the constant stream of true and false information, the dilemma of liberal racism, and abuses of power that lead to structural inequality.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Suara Welitoff, \u201cFive years later,\u201d 2013, continuously looping video (silent). (Courtesy)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cSuara Welitoff: Right Now This Moment,\u201d<\/a> School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts, Grossman Gallery, Boston, Jan. 23 to April 7, 2019<\/h3>\nTwelve videos from the past five years\u2014including three new works\u2014by the Cambridge artist known for slowing and looping historic films, television and the Internet to create surreal poetic moments.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Claude Monet, \u201cWaterloo Bridge, Veiled Sun,\u201d 1903, oil on canvas. (Couresy of the Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cMonet\u2019s Waterloo Bridge: Vision and Process,\u201d<\/a> Worcester Art Museum, Jan. 25 to April 28, 2019<\/h3>\nNine of Claude Monet\u2019s ethereal visions of London’s Waterloo Bridge. Plus fresh research into the French Impressionist\u2019s methods via new imaging and materials analysis.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Tom Kiefer, \u201cWater Bottles.\u201d (Courtesy)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cTom Kiefer: El Sue\u00f1o Americano \u2013 The American Dream,\u201d<\/a> Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, Massachusetts, Jan. 26 to July 28, 2019<\/h3>\nArizona photographer Tom Kiefer documents belongings left behind by migrants arrested near a U.S. Customs and Border Patrol outpost in southern Arizona.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>A selection of \u201cWelcome Blankets.\u201d (Michael Tropea photo, courtesy of the Smart Museum of Art)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cWelcome Blanket,\u201d<\/a> Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, Massachusetts, Jan. 26 to Feb. 17, 2019<\/h3>\nIn protest of President Trump\u2019s proposed border wall, the \u201cWelcome Blanket\u201d is a participatory, global initiative conceived by Los Angeles artist Jayna Zweiman. Zweiman, a co-founder of the Pussyhat Project, to knit enough coverlets to stretch across the 2,000-mile span. The exhibit features some of the blankets, which organizers plan to distribute through immigration organizations, refugee resettlement agencies, and other community groups.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Howardena Pindell, \u201cUntitled #5B (Krakatoa),\u201d 2007, mixed media on paper collage. (Courtesy of the artist and Garth Greenan Gallery, New York)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nHowardena Pindell \u201cWhat Remains to Be Seen,\u201d<\/a> Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, Feb. 1 to May 19, 2019<\/h3>\nFigurative paintings, abstractions, conceptual works, and personal and political art by a New York-based African American artist operating at the intersection of art and activism.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Alexandre Hogue, \u201cCrucifed Land,\u201d 1939, oil on canvas. (\u00a9 Estate of Alexandre Hogue)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cNature’s Nation: American Art and Environment,\u201d<\/a> Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts, Feb. 2 to May 5, 2019.<\/h3>\nA look at how American and Native American artists have reflected and shaped our understanding of the environment\u2014via more than 100 artworks from the colonial occupation to the present by John James Audubon, Albert Bierstadt, Thomas Cole, Valerie Hegarty, Winslow Homer, Georgia O\u2019Keeffe, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith (Salish-Kootenai) and others.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Milton Rogovin, \u201cBuffalo, New York, from the series Lower West Side,\u201d 1974, gelatin silver print. (Courtesy)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cBread and Roses: The Social Documentary of Milton and Anna Rogovin,\u201d<\/a> Davis Museum, Wellesley, Massachusetts, Feb. 7 to June 9, 2019.<\/h3>\nAmidst anti-Communist Cold War crackdowns, Milton Rogovin was labeled the \u201cTop Red in Buffalo,\u201d New York, in 1957. Isolated and ostracized, the optometrist, social activist, and self-taught photographer and his wife Anna began photographing their Buffalo neighbors in their homes and work places (always giving their sitters a copy of their photographs) to create a decades-long, multigenerational portrait of their community.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Kapwani Kiwanga, \u201cJalousie,\u201d 2018. (Courtesy Galerie J\u00e9r\u00f4me Poggi. Paris. Photo: John Dean)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nKapwani Kiwanga<\/a>, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, Feb. 8 to April 21, 2019<\/h3>\nThe Paris-based artist uses sculpture, installation, photography, video and performance to trace \u201chistorical narratives, excavating and considering the global impact of colonialism and how it permeates contemporary culture.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Lucia Moholy, \u201cBauhaus Masters Housing, Dessau, 1925\u201326: Lucia Moholy and L\u00e1szl\u00f3 Moholy-Nagy’s Living Room,\u201d c. 1925, gelatin silver print with gouache retouchings. (\u00a9 Lucia Moholy Estate\/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York\/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn. \u00a9 President and Fellows of Harvard College)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cThe Bauhaus and Harvard,\u201d<\/a> Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, Feb. 8 to July 28, 2019<\/h3>\nLocal exhibitions are honoring the 100th anniversary of the founding in 1919 of the Bauhaus, the influential German school that aimed to unify art, architecture and design. It\u2019s particularly known for a machine-inspired aesthetic of Modern, mass-produced design\u2014before the school was closed under pressure from the Nazis in 1933 and many of its stars fled to the United States. Harvard\u2019s exhibition showcases nearly 200 works by 74 artists, drawn almost entirely the school\u2019s Busch-Reisinger Museum, which claims the largest Bauhaus collection outside Germany (initiated and assembled through the efforts of founding director Walter Gropius, who joined Harvard\u2019s department of architecture in 1937, and many refugee teachers and students). Also Boston\u2019s Museum of Fine Arts offers \u201cRadical Geometries: Bauhaus Prints, 1919-33,\u201d<\/a> from Feb. 9 to June 23, 2019, and Cambridge\u2019s MIT Museum presents \u201cFragments of the World,\u201d<\/a> Bauhaus photography, from March 28 to Sept. 2, 2019.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Randa Maroufi, “Nabila et Keltoum,” 2015.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cLooking Out, Looking In: Contemporary Artists from Morocco,\u201d<\/a> Boston University\u2019s Stone Gallery, 855 Commonwealth Ave., Boston, Feb. 8 to March 31, 2019<\/h3>\nDispatches from Morocco by seven photographers and videographers from the nation examine how outsiders see the country and how its people see themselves.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Otto Piene, \u201cPlusquamperfect (Past Perfect Participle,\u201d 2003, oil and fire on canvas. (Photo \u00a9 Ante Glibota)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cFire and Light: Otto Piene in Groton, 1983\u20132014,\u201d<\/a> Fitchburg Art Museum, Massachusetts Feb. 9 to June 2, 2019<\/h3>\nIn the mid-1980s, Otto Piene\u2014a German-raised artist of kinetic light sculptures and monumental balloon installations who became a fellow at Massachusetts Institute of Technology\u2019s Center for Advanced Visual Studies in 1968 and went on to serve as director from 1974 to 1994\u2014bought a home in Groton, Massachusetts. There he experimented with new projects, creating \u201cfire paintings\u201d and filling a grain silo with a \u201cLight Ballet.\u201d This survey ranges from Piene\u2019s \u201cLight Robots,\u201d completed in 2013, to \u201cProliferation of the Sun,\u201d an immersive installation, not seen in the United States since 1968, of digitized hand-painted slides that are projected onto a large inflatable sphere and screens.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Hope Larson, Illustration for \u201cA Wrinkle in Time: The Graphic Novel.\u201d (\u00a9 2012 Hope Larson)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cOut of the Box: The Graphic Novel Comes of Age,\u201d<\/a> Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art, Amherst, Massachusetts, Feb. 10 to May 26, 2019<\/h3>\nThe revolutions of underground comics in the 1960s and \u201870s and alternative comics in the 1980s and \u201890s pioneered complex comics for grown-ups and at novel lengths. As the \u201cgraphic novel\u201d has matured since, a new crop of artists have begun making comics for kids again\u2014sophisticated, young adult, book-length comics. Children\u2019s book scholar Leonard S. Marcus rounds up poignant coming-of-age stories by the top of the field: Vera Brosgol, Catia Chien, Geoffrey Hayes, Gene Luen Yang, Jarrett J. Krosoczka, Hope Larson, Matt Phelan, David Small, Raina Telgemeier, and Sara Varon.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Sandro Botticelli, \u201cThe Story of Lucretia,\u201d c. 1500, tempera and oil on panel. (Courtesy Gardner Museum)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nBotticelli: Heroines and Heroes,\u201d<\/a> Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, Feb. 14 to May 19, 2019<\/h3>\nA look at the Renaissance star Sandro Botticelli via eight monumental paintings and drawings, some never before seen in the United States, that tell the stories of Roman Catholic saints and ancient Roman kidnappings and sexual assault.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Wild Kratts “Ocean Adventure”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cWild Kratts: Ocean Adventure!\u201d<\/a> Museum of Science, Boston, opens Feb. 16, 2019<\/h3>\nMuch as in the hit animated nature adventures of PBS\u2019s \u201cWild Kratts,\u201d kids can help brothers Chris and Martin Kratt assist marine animals and foil villains\u2019 plans with technology, science and teamwork, as they learn about the seashore, shallow waters, and the deep sea.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Frida Kahlo, \u201cSelf-Portrait with Hummingbird and Thorn Necklace (detail),\u201d 1940, oil on canvas. (\u00a9 2018 Banco de M\u00e9xico Diego Rivera Frida Kahlo Museums Trust, Mexico, D.F. \/ Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cFrida Kahlo and Arte Popular,\u201d<\/a> Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Feb. 27 to June 16, 2019<\/h3>\nA rare showcase of paintings by Kahlo (1907-1954) along with \u201carte popular\u201d (folk art) ceramics, embroidered textiles, papier-m\u00e2ch\u00e9 effigies and devotional retablo paintings that inspired the Mexican artist. (If you can\u2019t get enough Kahlo, New York\u2019s Brooklyn Museum offers \u201cFrida Kahlo: Appearances Can Be Deceiving\u201d<\/a> from Feb. 8 to May 12.)<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Photographer unknown, \u201cRube Goldberg at the Famous Artists School,\u201d ca.1947. (Courtesy of Norman Rockwell Museum)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cThe Art and Wit of Rube Goldberg,\u201d<\/a> Norman Rockwell Museum, Stockbridge, Massachusetts, March 2 to June 9, 2019<\/h3>\nIn 1912, a New York newspaper cartoonist by the name of Reuben \u201cRube\u201d Goldberg began drawing a series of strips featuring terribly complex machines designed to comically accomplish simple tasks. They were so popular that to this day unnecessarily complicated contraptions are known as \u201cRube Goldberg Machines\u201d\u2014though we\u2019ve forgotten him otherwise. Discover Goldberg\u2019s art in this survey of his career.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Trenton Doyle Hancock, \u201cAnd the Branches Became as Storm Clouds,\u201d 2003, mixed media on canvas.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nTrenton Doyle Hancock \u201cMind of the Mound: Critical Mass,\u201d<\/a> Mass MoCA, North Adams, Massachusetts, opens March 9, 2019<\/h3>\nInspired by comics, Greek mythology and his evangelical Baptist upbringing, the Houston artist deploys paintings, sculpture, drawings, prints, installations and performance to tell his story of the Mounds (\u201cgentle hybrid plant-like creatures\u201d), protected by his alter ego\/superhero Torpedo Boy, and their enemies, the Vegans (\u201cmutants who consume tofu and spill Mound blood every chance they get\u201d).<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Alessandro Trincone, \u201cAnnodami (detail),\u201d January 2016. (Photographer: Gioconda & August. Model: Andrea Antonelli)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cGender Bending Fashion,\u201d<\/a> Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, March 16 to Aug. 25, 2019.<\/h3>\nMore than 60 \u201cboundary-pushing designs\u201d recount a century of haute couture and ready-to-wear fashion that has challenged rigid, binary definitions of dress. Including designs by Rad Hourani, Jean Paul Gaultier, Alessandro Michele for Gucci, Palomo, and Rei Kawakubo, as well as pieces worn by Marlene Dietrich, David Bowie, Jimi Hendrix and Young Thug.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Huma Bhabha, \u201cThe Orientalist,\u201d 2007, bronze. (\u00a9 Huma Bhabha)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cHuma Bhabha: They Live,\u201d<\/a> Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, March 23 to May 27, 2019<\/h3>\nThe ICA bills this exhibition as \u201cthe largest survey\u201d ever of Bhabha, who was raised in Pakistan and is now based in Poughkeepsie, New York. It features drawings, photos, and her monstrous, rough-hewn, expressionist figurative sculptures. \u201cHer work transcends a singular time and place, instead creating an exploration of what she describes as the \u2018eternal concerns\u2019 found across all cultures: war, colonialism, displacement, and memories of home.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nIf this is the kind of coverage of arts, cultures and activisms you appreciate, please support Wonderland by contributing to Wonderland on Patreon<\/a>. And sign up for our free, weekly newsletter<\/a> so that you don’t miss any of our reporting.<\/em><\/p>\n
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<\/a>\u201cSuara Welitoff: Right Now This Moment,\u201d<\/a> School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts, Grossman Gallery, Boston, Jan. 23 to April 7, 2019<\/h3>\nTwelve videos from the past five years\u2014including three new works\u2014by the Cambridge artist known for slowing and looping historic films, television and the Internet to create surreal poetic moments.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Claude Monet, \u201cWaterloo Bridge, Veiled Sun,\u201d 1903, oil on canvas. (Couresy of the Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cMonet\u2019s Waterloo Bridge: Vision and Process,\u201d<\/a> Worcester Art Museum, Jan. 25 to April 28, 2019<\/h3>\nNine of Claude Monet\u2019s ethereal visions of London’s Waterloo Bridge. Plus fresh research into the French Impressionist\u2019s methods via new imaging and materials analysis.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Tom Kiefer, \u201cWater Bottles.\u201d (Courtesy)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cTom Kiefer: El Sue\u00f1o Americano \u2013 The American Dream,\u201d<\/a> Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, Massachusetts, Jan. 26 to July 28, 2019<\/h3>\nArizona photographer Tom Kiefer documents belongings left behind by migrants arrested near a U.S. Customs and Border Patrol outpost in southern Arizona.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>A selection of \u201cWelcome Blankets.\u201d (Michael Tropea photo, courtesy of the Smart Museum of Art)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cWelcome Blanket,\u201d<\/a> Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, Massachusetts, Jan. 26 to Feb. 17, 2019<\/h3>\nIn protest of President Trump\u2019s proposed border wall, the \u201cWelcome Blanket\u201d is a participatory, global initiative conceived by Los Angeles artist Jayna Zweiman. Zweiman, a co-founder of the Pussyhat Project, to knit enough coverlets to stretch across the 2,000-mile span. The exhibit features some of the blankets, which organizers plan to distribute through immigration organizations, refugee resettlement agencies, and other community groups.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Howardena Pindell, \u201cUntitled #5B (Krakatoa),\u201d 2007, mixed media on paper collage. (Courtesy of the artist and Garth Greenan Gallery, New York)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nHowardena Pindell \u201cWhat Remains to Be Seen,\u201d<\/a> Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, Feb. 1 to May 19, 2019<\/h3>\nFigurative paintings, abstractions, conceptual works, and personal and political art by a New York-based African American artist operating at the intersection of art and activism.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Alexandre Hogue, \u201cCrucifed Land,\u201d 1939, oil on canvas. (\u00a9 Estate of Alexandre Hogue)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cNature’s Nation: American Art and Environment,\u201d<\/a> Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts, Feb. 2 to May 5, 2019.<\/h3>\nA look at how American and Native American artists have reflected and shaped our understanding of the environment\u2014via more than 100 artworks from the colonial occupation to the present by John James Audubon, Albert Bierstadt, Thomas Cole, Valerie Hegarty, Winslow Homer, Georgia O\u2019Keeffe, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith (Salish-Kootenai) and others.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Milton Rogovin, \u201cBuffalo, New York, from the series Lower West Side,\u201d 1974, gelatin silver print. (Courtesy)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cBread and Roses: The Social Documentary of Milton and Anna Rogovin,\u201d<\/a> Davis Museum, Wellesley, Massachusetts, Feb. 7 to June 9, 2019.<\/h3>\nAmidst anti-Communist Cold War crackdowns, Milton Rogovin was labeled the \u201cTop Red in Buffalo,\u201d New York, in 1957. Isolated and ostracized, the optometrist, social activist, and self-taught photographer and his wife Anna began photographing their Buffalo neighbors in their homes and work places (always giving their sitters a copy of their photographs) to create a decades-long, multigenerational portrait of their community.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Kapwani Kiwanga, \u201cJalousie,\u201d 2018. (Courtesy Galerie J\u00e9r\u00f4me Poggi. Paris. Photo: John Dean)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nKapwani Kiwanga<\/a>, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, Feb. 8 to April 21, 2019<\/h3>\nThe Paris-based artist uses sculpture, installation, photography, video and performance to trace \u201chistorical narratives, excavating and considering the global impact of colonialism and how it permeates contemporary culture.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Lucia Moholy, \u201cBauhaus Masters Housing, Dessau, 1925\u201326: Lucia Moholy and L\u00e1szl\u00f3 Moholy-Nagy’s Living Room,\u201d c. 1925, gelatin silver print with gouache retouchings. (\u00a9 Lucia Moholy Estate\/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York\/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn. \u00a9 President and Fellows of Harvard College)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cThe Bauhaus and Harvard,\u201d<\/a> Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, Feb. 8 to July 28, 2019<\/h3>\nLocal exhibitions are honoring the 100th anniversary of the founding in 1919 of the Bauhaus, the influential German school that aimed to unify art, architecture and design. It\u2019s particularly known for a machine-inspired aesthetic of Modern, mass-produced design\u2014before the school was closed under pressure from the Nazis in 1933 and many of its stars fled to the United States. Harvard\u2019s exhibition showcases nearly 200 works by 74 artists, drawn almost entirely the school\u2019s Busch-Reisinger Museum, which claims the largest Bauhaus collection outside Germany (initiated and assembled through the efforts of founding director Walter Gropius, who joined Harvard\u2019s department of architecture in 1937, and many refugee teachers and students). Also Boston\u2019s Museum of Fine Arts offers \u201cRadical Geometries: Bauhaus Prints, 1919-33,\u201d<\/a> from Feb. 9 to June 23, 2019, and Cambridge\u2019s MIT Museum presents \u201cFragments of the World,\u201d<\/a> Bauhaus photography, from March 28 to Sept. 2, 2019.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Randa Maroufi, “Nabila et Keltoum,” 2015.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cLooking Out, Looking In: Contemporary Artists from Morocco,\u201d<\/a> Boston University\u2019s Stone Gallery, 855 Commonwealth Ave., Boston, Feb. 8 to March 31, 2019<\/h3>\nDispatches from Morocco by seven photographers and videographers from the nation examine how outsiders see the country and how its people see themselves.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Otto Piene, \u201cPlusquamperfect (Past Perfect Participle,\u201d 2003, oil and fire on canvas. (Photo \u00a9 Ante Glibota)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cFire and Light: Otto Piene in Groton, 1983\u20132014,\u201d<\/a> Fitchburg Art Museum, Massachusetts Feb. 9 to June 2, 2019<\/h3>\nIn the mid-1980s, Otto Piene\u2014a German-raised artist of kinetic light sculptures and monumental balloon installations who became a fellow at Massachusetts Institute of Technology\u2019s Center for Advanced Visual Studies in 1968 and went on to serve as director from 1974 to 1994\u2014bought a home in Groton, Massachusetts. There he experimented with new projects, creating \u201cfire paintings\u201d and filling a grain silo with a \u201cLight Ballet.\u201d This survey ranges from Piene\u2019s \u201cLight Robots,\u201d completed in 2013, to \u201cProliferation of the Sun,\u201d an immersive installation, not seen in the United States since 1968, of digitized hand-painted slides that are projected onto a large inflatable sphere and screens.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Hope Larson, Illustration for \u201cA Wrinkle in Time: The Graphic Novel.\u201d (\u00a9 2012 Hope Larson)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cOut of the Box: The Graphic Novel Comes of Age,\u201d<\/a> Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art, Amherst, Massachusetts, Feb. 10 to May 26, 2019<\/h3>\nThe revolutions of underground comics in the 1960s and \u201870s and alternative comics in the 1980s and \u201890s pioneered complex comics for grown-ups and at novel lengths. As the \u201cgraphic novel\u201d has matured since, a new crop of artists have begun making comics for kids again\u2014sophisticated, young adult, book-length comics. Children\u2019s book scholar Leonard S. Marcus rounds up poignant coming-of-age stories by the top of the field: Vera Brosgol, Catia Chien, Geoffrey Hayes, Gene Luen Yang, Jarrett J. Krosoczka, Hope Larson, Matt Phelan, David Small, Raina Telgemeier, and Sara Varon.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Sandro Botticelli, \u201cThe Story of Lucretia,\u201d c. 1500, tempera and oil on panel. (Courtesy Gardner Museum)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nBotticelli: Heroines and Heroes,\u201d<\/a> Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, Feb. 14 to May 19, 2019<\/h3>\nA look at the Renaissance star Sandro Botticelli via eight monumental paintings and drawings, some never before seen in the United States, that tell the stories of Roman Catholic saints and ancient Roman kidnappings and sexual assault.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Wild Kratts “Ocean Adventure”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cWild Kratts: Ocean Adventure!\u201d<\/a> Museum of Science, Boston, opens Feb. 16, 2019<\/h3>\nMuch as in the hit animated nature adventures of PBS\u2019s \u201cWild Kratts,\u201d kids can help brothers Chris and Martin Kratt assist marine animals and foil villains\u2019 plans with technology, science and teamwork, as they learn about the seashore, shallow waters, and the deep sea.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Frida Kahlo, \u201cSelf-Portrait with Hummingbird and Thorn Necklace (detail),\u201d 1940, oil on canvas. (\u00a9 2018 Banco de M\u00e9xico Diego Rivera Frida Kahlo Museums Trust, Mexico, D.F. \/ Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cFrida Kahlo and Arte Popular,\u201d<\/a> Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Feb. 27 to June 16, 2019<\/h3>\nA rare showcase of paintings by Kahlo (1907-1954) along with \u201carte popular\u201d (folk art) ceramics, embroidered textiles, papier-m\u00e2ch\u00e9 effigies and devotional retablo paintings that inspired the Mexican artist. (If you can\u2019t get enough Kahlo, New York\u2019s Brooklyn Museum offers \u201cFrida Kahlo: Appearances Can Be Deceiving\u201d<\/a> from Feb. 8 to May 12.)<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Photographer unknown, \u201cRube Goldberg at the Famous Artists School,\u201d ca.1947. (Courtesy of Norman Rockwell Museum)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cThe Art and Wit of Rube Goldberg,\u201d<\/a> Norman Rockwell Museum, Stockbridge, Massachusetts, March 2 to June 9, 2019<\/h3>\nIn 1912, a New York newspaper cartoonist by the name of Reuben \u201cRube\u201d Goldberg began drawing a series of strips featuring terribly complex machines designed to comically accomplish simple tasks. They were so popular that to this day unnecessarily complicated contraptions are known as \u201cRube Goldberg Machines\u201d\u2014though we\u2019ve forgotten him otherwise. Discover Goldberg\u2019s art in this survey of his career.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Trenton Doyle Hancock, \u201cAnd the Branches Became as Storm Clouds,\u201d 2003, mixed media on canvas.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nTrenton Doyle Hancock \u201cMind of the Mound: Critical Mass,\u201d<\/a> Mass MoCA, North Adams, Massachusetts, opens March 9, 2019<\/h3>\nInspired by comics, Greek mythology and his evangelical Baptist upbringing, the Houston artist deploys paintings, sculpture, drawings, prints, installations and performance to tell his story of the Mounds (\u201cgentle hybrid plant-like creatures\u201d), protected by his alter ego\/superhero Torpedo Boy, and their enemies, the Vegans (\u201cmutants who consume tofu and spill Mound blood every chance they get\u201d).<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Alessandro Trincone, \u201cAnnodami (detail),\u201d January 2016. (Photographer: Gioconda & August. Model: Andrea Antonelli)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cGender Bending Fashion,\u201d<\/a> Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, March 16 to Aug. 25, 2019.<\/h3>\nMore than 60 \u201cboundary-pushing designs\u201d recount a century of haute couture and ready-to-wear fashion that has challenged rigid, binary definitions of dress. Including designs by Rad Hourani, Jean Paul Gaultier, Alessandro Michele for Gucci, Palomo, and Rei Kawakubo, as well as pieces worn by Marlene Dietrich, David Bowie, Jimi Hendrix and Young Thug.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Huma Bhabha, \u201cThe Orientalist,\u201d 2007, bronze. (\u00a9 Huma Bhabha)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cHuma Bhabha: They Live,\u201d<\/a> Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, March 23 to May 27, 2019<\/h3>\nThe ICA bills this exhibition as \u201cthe largest survey\u201d ever of Bhabha, who was raised in Pakistan and is now based in Poughkeepsie, New York. It features drawings, photos, and her monstrous, rough-hewn, expressionist figurative sculptures. \u201cHer work transcends a singular time and place, instead creating an exploration of what she describes as the \u2018eternal concerns\u2019 found across all cultures: war, colonialism, displacement, and memories of home.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nIf this is the kind of coverage of arts, cultures and activisms you appreciate, please support Wonderland by contributing to Wonderland on Patreon<\/a>. And sign up for our free, weekly newsletter<\/a> so that you don’t miss any of our reporting.<\/em><\/p>\n
\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Here\u2019s Wonderland\u2019s guide to the best museum exhibitions to see around Massachusetts this winter… If this is the kind of coverage of arts, cultures and activisms you appreciate, please support Wonderland by contributing to Wonderland on Patreon. And sign up for our free, weekly newsletter so that you don’t miss any of our reporting. \u201cJess […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9802,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9805"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9805"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9849,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9805\/revisions\/9849"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
<\/a>\u201cMonet\u2019s Waterloo Bridge: Vision and Process,\u201d<\/a> Worcester Art Museum, Jan. 25 to April 28, 2019<\/h3>\nNine of Claude Monet\u2019s ethereal visions of London’s Waterloo Bridge. Plus fresh research into the French Impressionist\u2019s methods via new imaging and materials analysis.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Tom Kiefer, \u201cWater Bottles.\u201d (Courtesy)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cTom Kiefer: El Sue\u00f1o Americano \u2013 The American Dream,\u201d<\/a> Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, Massachusetts, Jan. 26 to July 28, 2019<\/h3>\nArizona photographer Tom Kiefer documents belongings left behind by migrants arrested near a U.S. Customs and Border Patrol outpost in southern Arizona.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>A selection of \u201cWelcome Blankets.\u201d (Michael Tropea photo, courtesy of the Smart Museum of Art)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cWelcome Blanket,\u201d<\/a> Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, Massachusetts, Jan. 26 to Feb. 17, 2019<\/h3>\nIn protest of President Trump\u2019s proposed border wall, the \u201cWelcome Blanket\u201d is a participatory, global initiative conceived by Los Angeles artist Jayna Zweiman. Zweiman, a co-founder of the Pussyhat Project, to knit enough coverlets to stretch across the 2,000-mile span. The exhibit features some of the blankets, which organizers plan to distribute through immigration organizations, refugee resettlement agencies, and other community groups.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Howardena Pindell, \u201cUntitled #5B (Krakatoa),\u201d 2007, mixed media on paper collage. (Courtesy of the artist and Garth Greenan Gallery, New York)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nHowardena Pindell \u201cWhat Remains to Be Seen,\u201d<\/a> Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, Feb. 1 to May 19, 2019<\/h3>\nFigurative paintings, abstractions, conceptual works, and personal and political art by a New York-based African American artist operating at the intersection of art and activism.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Alexandre Hogue, \u201cCrucifed Land,\u201d 1939, oil on canvas. (\u00a9 Estate of Alexandre Hogue)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cNature’s Nation: American Art and Environment,\u201d<\/a> Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts, Feb. 2 to May 5, 2019.<\/h3>\nA look at how American and Native American artists have reflected and shaped our understanding of the environment\u2014via more than 100 artworks from the colonial occupation to the present by John James Audubon, Albert Bierstadt, Thomas Cole, Valerie Hegarty, Winslow Homer, Georgia O\u2019Keeffe, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith (Salish-Kootenai) and others.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Milton Rogovin, \u201cBuffalo, New York, from the series Lower West Side,\u201d 1974, gelatin silver print. (Courtesy)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cBread and Roses: The Social Documentary of Milton and Anna Rogovin,\u201d<\/a> Davis Museum, Wellesley, Massachusetts, Feb. 7 to June 9, 2019.<\/h3>\nAmidst anti-Communist Cold War crackdowns, Milton Rogovin was labeled the \u201cTop Red in Buffalo,\u201d New York, in 1957. Isolated and ostracized, the optometrist, social activist, and self-taught photographer and his wife Anna began photographing their Buffalo neighbors in their homes and work places (always giving their sitters a copy of their photographs) to create a decades-long, multigenerational portrait of their community.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Kapwani Kiwanga, \u201cJalousie,\u201d 2018. (Courtesy Galerie J\u00e9r\u00f4me Poggi. Paris. Photo: John Dean)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nKapwani Kiwanga<\/a>, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, Feb. 8 to April 21, 2019<\/h3>\nThe Paris-based artist uses sculpture, installation, photography, video and performance to trace \u201chistorical narratives, excavating and considering the global impact of colonialism and how it permeates contemporary culture.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Lucia Moholy, \u201cBauhaus Masters Housing, Dessau, 1925\u201326: Lucia Moholy and L\u00e1szl\u00f3 Moholy-Nagy’s Living Room,\u201d c. 1925, gelatin silver print with gouache retouchings. (\u00a9 Lucia Moholy Estate\/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York\/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn. \u00a9 President and Fellows of Harvard College)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cThe Bauhaus and Harvard,\u201d<\/a> Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, Feb. 8 to July 28, 2019<\/h3>\nLocal exhibitions are honoring the 100th anniversary of the founding in 1919 of the Bauhaus, the influential German school that aimed to unify art, architecture and design. It\u2019s particularly known for a machine-inspired aesthetic of Modern, mass-produced design\u2014before the school was closed under pressure from the Nazis in 1933 and many of its stars fled to the United States. Harvard\u2019s exhibition showcases nearly 200 works by 74 artists, drawn almost entirely the school\u2019s Busch-Reisinger Museum, which claims the largest Bauhaus collection outside Germany (initiated and assembled through the efforts of founding director Walter Gropius, who joined Harvard\u2019s department of architecture in 1937, and many refugee teachers and students). Also Boston\u2019s Museum of Fine Arts offers \u201cRadical Geometries: Bauhaus Prints, 1919-33,\u201d<\/a> from Feb. 9 to June 23, 2019, and Cambridge\u2019s MIT Museum presents \u201cFragments of the World,\u201d<\/a> Bauhaus photography, from March 28 to Sept. 2, 2019.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Randa Maroufi, “Nabila et Keltoum,” 2015.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cLooking Out, Looking In: Contemporary Artists from Morocco,\u201d<\/a> Boston University\u2019s Stone Gallery, 855 Commonwealth Ave., Boston, Feb. 8 to March 31, 2019<\/h3>\nDispatches from Morocco by seven photographers and videographers from the nation examine how outsiders see the country and how its people see themselves.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Otto Piene, \u201cPlusquamperfect (Past Perfect Participle,\u201d 2003, oil and fire on canvas. (Photo \u00a9 Ante Glibota)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cFire and Light: Otto Piene in Groton, 1983\u20132014,\u201d<\/a> Fitchburg Art Museum, Massachusetts Feb. 9 to June 2, 2019<\/h3>\nIn the mid-1980s, Otto Piene\u2014a German-raised artist of kinetic light sculptures and monumental balloon installations who became a fellow at Massachusetts Institute of Technology\u2019s Center for Advanced Visual Studies in 1968 and went on to serve as director from 1974 to 1994\u2014bought a home in Groton, Massachusetts. There he experimented with new projects, creating \u201cfire paintings\u201d and filling a grain silo with a \u201cLight Ballet.\u201d This survey ranges from Piene\u2019s \u201cLight Robots,\u201d completed in 2013, to \u201cProliferation of the Sun,\u201d an immersive installation, not seen in the United States since 1968, of digitized hand-painted slides that are projected onto a large inflatable sphere and screens.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Hope Larson, Illustration for \u201cA Wrinkle in Time: The Graphic Novel.\u201d (\u00a9 2012 Hope Larson)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cOut of the Box: The Graphic Novel Comes of Age,\u201d<\/a> Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art, Amherst, Massachusetts, Feb. 10 to May 26, 2019<\/h3>\nThe revolutions of underground comics in the 1960s and \u201870s and alternative comics in the 1980s and \u201890s pioneered complex comics for grown-ups and at novel lengths. As the \u201cgraphic novel\u201d has matured since, a new crop of artists have begun making comics for kids again\u2014sophisticated, young adult, book-length comics. Children\u2019s book scholar Leonard S. Marcus rounds up poignant coming-of-age stories by the top of the field: Vera Brosgol, Catia Chien, Geoffrey Hayes, Gene Luen Yang, Jarrett J. Krosoczka, Hope Larson, Matt Phelan, David Small, Raina Telgemeier, and Sara Varon.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Sandro Botticelli, \u201cThe Story of Lucretia,\u201d c. 1500, tempera and oil on panel. (Courtesy Gardner Museum)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nBotticelli: Heroines and Heroes,\u201d<\/a> Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, Feb. 14 to May 19, 2019<\/h3>\nA look at the Renaissance star Sandro Botticelli via eight monumental paintings and drawings, some never before seen in the United States, that tell the stories of Roman Catholic saints and ancient Roman kidnappings and sexual assault.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Wild Kratts “Ocean Adventure”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cWild Kratts: Ocean Adventure!\u201d<\/a> Museum of Science, Boston, opens Feb. 16, 2019<\/h3>\nMuch as in the hit animated nature adventures of PBS\u2019s \u201cWild Kratts,\u201d kids can help brothers Chris and Martin Kratt assist marine animals and foil villains\u2019 plans with technology, science and teamwork, as they learn about the seashore, shallow waters, and the deep sea.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Frida Kahlo, \u201cSelf-Portrait with Hummingbird and Thorn Necklace (detail),\u201d 1940, oil on canvas. (\u00a9 2018 Banco de M\u00e9xico Diego Rivera Frida Kahlo Museums Trust, Mexico, D.F. \/ Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cFrida Kahlo and Arte Popular,\u201d<\/a> Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Feb. 27 to June 16, 2019<\/h3>\nA rare showcase of paintings by Kahlo (1907-1954) along with \u201carte popular\u201d (folk art) ceramics, embroidered textiles, papier-m\u00e2ch\u00e9 effigies and devotional retablo paintings that inspired the Mexican artist. (If you can\u2019t get enough Kahlo, New York\u2019s Brooklyn Museum offers \u201cFrida Kahlo: Appearances Can Be Deceiving\u201d<\/a> from Feb. 8 to May 12.)<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Photographer unknown, \u201cRube Goldberg at the Famous Artists School,\u201d ca.1947. (Courtesy of Norman Rockwell Museum)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cThe Art and Wit of Rube Goldberg,\u201d<\/a> Norman Rockwell Museum, Stockbridge, Massachusetts, March 2 to June 9, 2019<\/h3>\nIn 1912, a New York newspaper cartoonist by the name of Reuben \u201cRube\u201d Goldberg began drawing a series of strips featuring terribly complex machines designed to comically accomplish simple tasks. They were so popular that to this day unnecessarily complicated contraptions are known as \u201cRube Goldberg Machines\u201d\u2014though we\u2019ve forgotten him otherwise. Discover Goldberg\u2019s art in this survey of his career.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Trenton Doyle Hancock, \u201cAnd the Branches Became as Storm Clouds,\u201d 2003, mixed media on canvas.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nTrenton Doyle Hancock \u201cMind of the Mound: Critical Mass,\u201d<\/a> Mass MoCA, North Adams, Massachusetts, opens March 9, 2019<\/h3>\nInspired by comics, Greek mythology and his evangelical Baptist upbringing, the Houston artist deploys paintings, sculpture, drawings, prints, installations and performance to tell his story of the Mounds (\u201cgentle hybrid plant-like creatures\u201d), protected by his alter ego\/superhero Torpedo Boy, and their enemies, the Vegans (\u201cmutants who consume tofu and spill Mound blood every chance they get\u201d).<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Alessandro Trincone, \u201cAnnodami (detail),\u201d January 2016. (Photographer: Gioconda & August. Model: Andrea Antonelli)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cGender Bending Fashion,\u201d<\/a> Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, March 16 to Aug. 25, 2019.<\/h3>\nMore than 60 \u201cboundary-pushing designs\u201d recount a century of haute couture and ready-to-wear fashion that has challenged rigid, binary definitions of dress. Including designs by Rad Hourani, Jean Paul Gaultier, Alessandro Michele for Gucci, Palomo, and Rei Kawakubo, as well as pieces worn by Marlene Dietrich, David Bowie, Jimi Hendrix and Young Thug.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Huma Bhabha, \u201cThe Orientalist,\u201d 2007, bronze. (\u00a9 Huma Bhabha)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cHuma Bhabha: They Live,\u201d<\/a> Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, March 23 to May 27, 2019<\/h3>\nThe ICA bills this exhibition as \u201cthe largest survey\u201d ever of Bhabha, who was raised in Pakistan and is now based in Poughkeepsie, New York. It features drawings, photos, and her monstrous, rough-hewn, expressionist figurative sculptures. \u201cHer work transcends a singular time and place, instead creating an exploration of what she describes as the \u2018eternal concerns\u2019 found across all cultures: war, colonialism, displacement, and memories of home.\u201d<\/p>\n
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<\/a>\u201cTom Kiefer: El Sue\u00f1o Americano \u2013 The American Dream,\u201d<\/a> Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, Massachusetts, Jan. 26 to July 28, 2019<\/h3>\nArizona photographer Tom Kiefer documents belongings left behind by migrants arrested near a U.S. Customs and Border Patrol outpost in southern Arizona.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>A selection of \u201cWelcome Blankets.\u201d (Michael Tropea photo, courtesy of the Smart Museum of Art)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cWelcome Blanket,\u201d<\/a> Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, Massachusetts, Jan. 26 to Feb. 17, 2019<\/h3>\nIn protest of President Trump\u2019s proposed border wall, the \u201cWelcome Blanket\u201d is a participatory, global initiative conceived by Los Angeles artist Jayna Zweiman. Zweiman, a co-founder of the Pussyhat Project, to knit enough coverlets to stretch across the 2,000-mile span. The exhibit features some of the blankets, which organizers plan to distribute through immigration organizations, refugee resettlement agencies, and other community groups.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Howardena Pindell, \u201cUntitled #5B (Krakatoa),\u201d 2007, mixed media on paper collage. (Courtesy of the artist and Garth Greenan Gallery, New York)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nHowardena Pindell \u201cWhat Remains to Be Seen,\u201d<\/a> Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, Feb. 1 to May 19, 2019<\/h3>\nFigurative paintings, abstractions, conceptual works, and personal and political art by a New York-based African American artist operating at the intersection of art and activism.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Alexandre Hogue, \u201cCrucifed Land,\u201d 1939, oil on canvas. (\u00a9 Estate of Alexandre Hogue)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cNature’s Nation: American Art and Environment,\u201d<\/a> Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts, Feb. 2 to May 5, 2019.<\/h3>\nA look at how American and Native American artists have reflected and shaped our understanding of the environment\u2014via more than 100 artworks from the colonial occupation to the present by John James Audubon, Albert Bierstadt, Thomas Cole, Valerie Hegarty, Winslow Homer, Georgia O\u2019Keeffe, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith (Salish-Kootenai) and others.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Milton Rogovin, \u201cBuffalo, New York, from the series Lower West Side,\u201d 1974, gelatin silver print. (Courtesy)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cBread and Roses: The Social Documentary of Milton and Anna Rogovin,\u201d<\/a> Davis Museum, Wellesley, Massachusetts, Feb. 7 to June 9, 2019.<\/h3>\nAmidst anti-Communist Cold War crackdowns, Milton Rogovin was labeled the \u201cTop Red in Buffalo,\u201d New York, in 1957. Isolated and ostracized, the optometrist, social activist, and self-taught photographer and his wife Anna began photographing their Buffalo neighbors in their homes and work places (always giving their sitters a copy of their photographs) to create a decades-long, multigenerational portrait of their community.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Kapwani Kiwanga, \u201cJalousie,\u201d 2018. (Courtesy Galerie J\u00e9r\u00f4me Poggi. Paris. Photo: John Dean)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nKapwani Kiwanga<\/a>, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, Feb. 8 to April 21, 2019<\/h3>\nThe Paris-based artist uses sculpture, installation, photography, video and performance to trace \u201chistorical narratives, excavating and considering the global impact of colonialism and how it permeates contemporary culture.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Lucia Moholy, \u201cBauhaus Masters Housing, Dessau, 1925\u201326: Lucia Moholy and L\u00e1szl\u00f3 Moholy-Nagy’s Living Room,\u201d c. 1925, gelatin silver print with gouache retouchings. (\u00a9 Lucia Moholy Estate\/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York\/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn. \u00a9 President and Fellows of Harvard College)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cThe Bauhaus and Harvard,\u201d<\/a> Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, Feb. 8 to July 28, 2019<\/h3>\nLocal exhibitions are honoring the 100th anniversary of the founding in 1919 of the Bauhaus, the influential German school that aimed to unify art, architecture and design. It\u2019s particularly known for a machine-inspired aesthetic of Modern, mass-produced design\u2014before the school was closed under pressure from the Nazis in 1933 and many of its stars fled to the United States. Harvard\u2019s exhibition showcases nearly 200 works by 74 artists, drawn almost entirely the school\u2019s Busch-Reisinger Museum, which claims the largest Bauhaus collection outside Germany (initiated and assembled through the efforts of founding director Walter Gropius, who joined Harvard\u2019s department of architecture in 1937, and many refugee teachers and students). Also Boston\u2019s Museum of Fine Arts offers \u201cRadical Geometries: Bauhaus Prints, 1919-33,\u201d<\/a> from Feb. 9 to June 23, 2019, and Cambridge\u2019s MIT Museum presents \u201cFragments of the World,\u201d<\/a> Bauhaus photography, from March 28 to Sept. 2, 2019.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Randa Maroufi, “Nabila et Keltoum,” 2015.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cLooking Out, Looking In: Contemporary Artists from Morocco,\u201d<\/a> Boston University\u2019s Stone Gallery, 855 Commonwealth Ave., Boston, Feb. 8 to March 31, 2019<\/h3>\nDispatches from Morocco by seven photographers and videographers from the nation examine how outsiders see the country and how its people see themselves.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Otto Piene, \u201cPlusquamperfect (Past Perfect Participle,\u201d 2003, oil and fire on canvas. (Photo \u00a9 Ante Glibota)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cFire and Light: Otto Piene in Groton, 1983\u20132014,\u201d<\/a> Fitchburg Art Museum, Massachusetts Feb. 9 to June 2, 2019<\/h3>\nIn the mid-1980s, Otto Piene\u2014a German-raised artist of kinetic light sculptures and monumental balloon installations who became a fellow at Massachusetts Institute of Technology\u2019s Center for Advanced Visual Studies in 1968 and went on to serve as director from 1974 to 1994\u2014bought a home in Groton, Massachusetts. There he experimented with new projects, creating \u201cfire paintings\u201d and filling a grain silo with a \u201cLight Ballet.\u201d This survey ranges from Piene\u2019s \u201cLight Robots,\u201d completed in 2013, to \u201cProliferation of the Sun,\u201d an immersive installation, not seen in the United States since 1968, of digitized hand-painted slides that are projected onto a large inflatable sphere and screens.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Hope Larson, Illustration for \u201cA Wrinkle in Time: The Graphic Novel.\u201d (\u00a9 2012 Hope Larson)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cOut of the Box: The Graphic Novel Comes of Age,\u201d<\/a> Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art, Amherst, Massachusetts, Feb. 10 to May 26, 2019<\/h3>\nThe revolutions of underground comics in the 1960s and \u201870s and alternative comics in the 1980s and \u201890s pioneered complex comics for grown-ups and at novel lengths. As the \u201cgraphic novel\u201d has matured since, a new crop of artists have begun making comics for kids again\u2014sophisticated, young adult, book-length comics. Children\u2019s book scholar Leonard S. Marcus rounds up poignant coming-of-age stories by the top of the field: Vera Brosgol, Catia Chien, Geoffrey Hayes, Gene Luen Yang, Jarrett J. Krosoczka, Hope Larson, Matt Phelan, David Small, Raina Telgemeier, and Sara Varon.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Sandro Botticelli, \u201cThe Story of Lucretia,\u201d c. 1500, tempera and oil on panel. (Courtesy Gardner Museum)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nBotticelli: Heroines and Heroes,\u201d<\/a> Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, Feb. 14 to May 19, 2019<\/h3>\nA look at the Renaissance star Sandro Botticelli via eight monumental paintings and drawings, some never before seen in the United States, that tell the stories of Roman Catholic saints and ancient Roman kidnappings and sexual assault.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Wild Kratts “Ocean Adventure”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cWild Kratts: Ocean Adventure!\u201d<\/a> Museum of Science, Boston, opens Feb. 16, 2019<\/h3>\nMuch as in the hit animated nature adventures of PBS\u2019s \u201cWild Kratts,\u201d kids can help brothers Chris and Martin Kratt assist marine animals and foil villains\u2019 plans with technology, science and teamwork, as they learn about the seashore, shallow waters, and the deep sea.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Frida Kahlo, \u201cSelf-Portrait with Hummingbird and Thorn Necklace (detail),\u201d 1940, oil on canvas. (\u00a9 2018 Banco de M\u00e9xico Diego Rivera Frida Kahlo Museums Trust, Mexico, D.F. \/ Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cFrida Kahlo and Arte Popular,\u201d<\/a> Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Feb. 27 to June 16, 2019<\/h3>\nA rare showcase of paintings by Kahlo (1907-1954) along with \u201carte popular\u201d (folk art) ceramics, embroidered textiles, papier-m\u00e2ch\u00e9 effigies and devotional retablo paintings that inspired the Mexican artist. (If you can\u2019t get enough Kahlo, New York\u2019s Brooklyn Museum offers \u201cFrida Kahlo: Appearances Can Be Deceiving\u201d<\/a> from Feb. 8 to May 12.)<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Photographer unknown, \u201cRube Goldberg at the Famous Artists School,\u201d ca.1947. (Courtesy of Norman Rockwell Museum)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cThe Art and Wit of Rube Goldberg,\u201d<\/a> Norman Rockwell Museum, Stockbridge, Massachusetts, March 2 to June 9, 2019<\/h3>\nIn 1912, a New York newspaper cartoonist by the name of Reuben \u201cRube\u201d Goldberg began drawing a series of strips featuring terribly complex machines designed to comically accomplish simple tasks. They were so popular that to this day unnecessarily complicated contraptions are known as \u201cRube Goldberg Machines\u201d\u2014though we\u2019ve forgotten him otherwise. Discover Goldberg\u2019s art in this survey of his career.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Trenton Doyle Hancock, \u201cAnd the Branches Became as Storm Clouds,\u201d 2003, mixed media on canvas.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nTrenton Doyle Hancock \u201cMind of the Mound: Critical Mass,\u201d<\/a> Mass MoCA, North Adams, Massachusetts, opens March 9, 2019<\/h3>\nInspired by comics, Greek mythology and his evangelical Baptist upbringing, the Houston artist deploys paintings, sculpture, drawings, prints, installations and performance to tell his story of the Mounds (\u201cgentle hybrid plant-like creatures\u201d), protected by his alter ego\/superhero Torpedo Boy, and their enemies, the Vegans (\u201cmutants who consume tofu and spill Mound blood every chance they get\u201d).<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Alessandro Trincone, \u201cAnnodami (detail),\u201d January 2016. (Photographer: Gioconda & August. Model: Andrea Antonelli)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cGender Bending Fashion,\u201d<\/a> Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, March 16 to Aug. 25, 2019.<\/h3>\nMore than 60 \u201cboundary-pushing designs\u201d recount a century of haute couture and ready-to-wear fashion that has challenged rigid, binary definitions of dress. Including designs by Rad Hourani, Jean Paul Gaultier, Alessandro Michele for Gucci, Palomo, and Rei Kawakubo, as well as pieces worn by Marlene Dietrich, David Bowie, Jimi Hendrix and Young Thug.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Huma Bhabha, \u201cThe Orientalist,\u201d 2007, bronze. (\u00a9 Huma Bhabha)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cHuma Bhabha: They Live,\u201d<\/a> Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, March 23 to May 27, 2019<\/h3>\nThe ICA bills this exhibition as \u201cthe largest survey\u201d ever of Bhabha, who was raised in Pakistan and is now based in Poughkeepsie, New York. It features drawings, photos, and her monstrous, rough-hewn, expressionist figurative sculptures. \u201cHer work transcends a singular time and place, instead creating an exploration of what she describes as the \u2018eternal concerns\u2019 found across all cultures: war, colonialism, displacement, and memories of home.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nIf this is the kind of coverage of arts, cultures and activisms you appreciate, please support Wonderland by contributing to Wonderland on Patreon<\/a>. And sign up for our free, weekly newsletter<\/a> so that you don’t miss any of our reporting.<\/em><\/p>\n
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<\/a>\u201cWelcome Blanket,\u201d<\/a> Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, Massachusetts, Jan. 26 to Feb. 17, 2019<\/h3>\nIn protest of President Trump\u2019s proposed border wall, the \u201cWelcome Blanket\u201d is a participatory, global initiative conceived by Los Angeles artist Jayna Zweiman. Zweiman, a co-founder of the Pussyhat Project, to knit enough coverlets to stretch across the 2,000-mile span. The exhibit features some of the blankets, which organizers plan to distribute through immigration organizations, refugee resettlement agencies, and other community groups.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Howardena Pindell, \u201cUntitled #5B (Krakatoa),\u201d 2007, mixed media on paper collage. (Courtesy of the artist and Garth Greenan Gallery, New York)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nHowardena Pindell \u201cWhat Remains to Be Seen,\u201d<\/a> Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, Feb. 1 to May 19, 2019<\/h3>\nFigurative paintings, abstractions, conceptual works, and personal and political art by a New York-based African American artist operating at the intersection of art and activism.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Alexandre Hogue, \u201cCrucifed Land,\u201d 1939, oil on canvas. (\u00a9 Estate of Alexandre Hogue)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cNature’s Nation: American Art and Environment,\u201d<\/a> Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts, Feb. 2 to May 5, 2019.<\/h3>\nA look at how American and Native American artists have reflected and shaped our understanding of the environment\u2014via more than 100 artworks from the colonial occupation to the present by John James Audubon, Albert Bierstadt, Thomas Cole, Valerie Hegarty, Winslow Homer, Georgia O\u2019Keeffe, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith (Salish-Kootenai) and others.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Milton Rogovin, \u201cBuffalo, New York, from the series Lower West Side,\u201d 1974, gelatin silver print. (Courtesy)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cBread and Roses: The Social Documentary of Milton and Anna Rogovin,\u201d<\/a> Davis Museum, Wellesley, Massachusetts, Feb. 7 to June 9, 2019.<\/h3>\nAmidst anti-Communist Cold War crackdowns, Milton Rogovin was labeled the \u201cTop Red in Buffalo,\u201d New York, in 1957. Isolated and ostracized, the optometrist, social activist, and self-taught photographer and his wife Anna began photographing their Buffalo neighbors in their homes and work places (always giving their sitters a copy of their photographs) to create a decades-long, multigenerational portrait of their community.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Kapwani Kiwanga, \u201cJalousie,\u201d 2018. (Courtesy Galerie J\u00e9r\u00f4me Poggi. Paris. Photo: John Dean)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nKapwani Kiwanga<\/a>, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, Feb. 8 to April 21, 2019<\/h3>\nThe Paris-based artist uses sculpture, installation, photography, video and performance to trace \u201chistorical narratives, excavating and considering the global impact of colonialism and how it permeates contemporary culture.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Lucia Moholy, \u201cBauhaus Masters Housing, Dessau, 1925\u201326: Lucia Moholy and L\u00e1szl\u00f3 Moholy-Nagy’s Living Room,\u201d c. 1925, gelatin silver print with gouache retouchings. (\u00a9 Lucia Moholy Estate\/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York\/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn. \u00a9 President and Fellows of Harvard College)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cThe Bauhaus and Harvard,\u201d<\/a> Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, Feb. 8 to July 28, 2019<\/h3>\nLocal exhibitions are honoring the 100th anniversary of the founding in 1919 of the Bauhaus, the influential German school that aimed to unify art, architecture and design. It\u2019s particularly known for a machine-inspired aesthetic of Modern, mass-produced design\u2014before the school was closed under pressure from the Nazis in 1933 and many of its stars fled to the United States. Harvard\u2019s exhibition showcases nearly 200 works by 74 artists, drawn almost entirely the school\u2019s Busch-Reisinger Museum, which claims the largest Bauhaus collection outside Germany (initiated and assembled through the efforts of founding director Walter Gropius, who joined Harvard\u2019s department of architecture in 1937, and many refugee teachers and students). Also Boston\u2019s Museum of Fine Arts offers \u201cRadical Geometries: Bauhaus Prints, 1919-33,\u201d<\/a> from Feb. 9 to June 23, 2019, and Cambridge\u2019s MIT Museum presents \u201cFragments of the World,\u201d<\/a> Bauhaus photography, from March 28 to Sept. 2, 2019.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Randa Maroufi, “Nabila et Keltoum,” 2015.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cLooking Out, Looking In: Contemporary Artists from Morocco,\u201d<\/a> Boston University\u2019s Stone Gallery, 855 Commonwealth Ave., Boston, Feb. 8 to March 31, 2019<\/h3>\nDispatches from Morocco by seven photographers and videographers from the nation examine how outsiders see the country and how its people see themselves.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Otto Piene, \u201cPlusquamperfect (Past Perfect Participle,\u201d 2003, oil and fire on canvas. (Photo \u00a9 Ante Glibota)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cFire and Light: Otto Piene in Groton, 1983\u20132014,\u201d<\/a> Fitchburg Art Museum, Massachusetts Feb. 9 to June 2, 2019<\/h3>\nIn the mid-1980s, Otto Piene\u2014a German-raised artist of kinetic light sculptures and monumental balloon installations who became a fellow at Massachusetts Institute of Technology\u2019s Center for Advanced Visual Studies in 1968 and went on to serve as director from 1974 to 1994\u2014bought a home in Groton, Massachusetts. There he experimented with new projects, creating \u201cfire paintings\u201d and filling a grain silo with a \u201cLight Ballet.\u201d This survey ranges from Piene\u2019s \u201cLight Robots,\u201d completed in 2013, to \u201cProliferation of the Sun,\u201d an immersive installation, not seen in the United States since 1968, of digitized hand-painted slides that are projected onto a large inflatable sphere and screens.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Hope Larson, Illustration for \u201cA Wrinkle in Time: The Graphic Novel.\u201d (\u00a9 2012 Hope Larson)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cOut of the Box: The Graphic Novel Comes of Age,\u201d<\/a> Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art, Amherst, Massachusetts, Feb. 10 to May 26, 2019<\/h3>\nThe revolutions of underground comics in the 1960s and \u201870s and alternative comics in the 1980s and \u201890s pioneered complex comics for grown-ups and at novel lengths. As the \u201cgraphic novel\u201d has matured since, a new crop of artists have begun making comics for kids again\u2014sophisticated, young adult, book-length comics. Children\u2019s book scholar Leonard S. Marcus rounds up poignant coming-of-age stories by the top of the field: Vera Brosgol, Catia Chien, Geoffrey Hayes, Gene Luen Yang, Jarrett J. Krosoczka, Hope Larson, Matt Phelan, David Small, Raina Telgemeier, and Sara Varon.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Sandro Botticelli, \u201cThe Story of Lucretia,\u201d c. 1500, tempera and oil on panel. (Courtesy Gardner Museum)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nBotticelli: Heroines and Heroes,\u201d<\/a> Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, Feb. 14 to May 19, 2019<\/h3>\nA look at the Renaissance star Sandro Botticelli via eight monumental paintings and drawings, some never before seen in the United States, that tell the stories of Roman Catholic saints and ancient Roman kidnappings and sexual assault.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Wild Kratts “Ocean Adventure”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cWild Kratts: Ocean Adventure!\u201d<\/a> Museum of Science, Boston, opens Feb. 16, 2019<\/h3>\nMuch as in the hit animated nature adventures of PBS\u2019s \u201cWild Kratts,\u201d kids can help brothers Chris and Martin Kratt assist marine animals and foil villains\u2019 plans with technology, science and teamwork, as they learn about the seashore, shallow waters, and the deep sea.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Frida Kahlo, \u201cSelf-Portrait with Hummingbird and Thorn Necklace (detail),\u201d 1940, oil on canvas. (\u00a9 2018 Banco de M\u00e9xico Diego Rivera Frida Kahlo Museums Trust, Mexico, D.F. \/ Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cFrida Kahlo and Arte Popular,\u201d<\/a> Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Feb. 27 to June 16, 2019<\/h3>\nA rare showcase of paintings by Kahlo (1907-1954) along with \u201carte popular\u201d (folk art) ceramics, embroidered textiles, papier-m\u00e2ch\u00e9 effigies and devotional retablo paintings that inspired the Mexican artist. (If you can\u2019t get enough Kahlo, New York\u2019s Brooklyn Museum offers \u201cFrida Kahlo: Appearances Can Be Deceiving\u201d<\/a> from Feb. 8 to May 12.)<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Photographer unknown, \u201cRube Goldberg at the Famous Artists School,\u201d ca.1947. (Courtesy of Norman Rockwell Museum)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cThe Art and Wit of Rube Goldberg,\u201d<\/a> Norman Rockwell Museum, Stockbridge, Massachusetts, March 2 to June 9, 2019<\/h3>\nIn 1912, a New York newspaper cartoonist by the name of Reuben \u201cRube\u201d Goldberg began drawing a series of strips featuring terribly complex machines designed to comically accomplish simple tasks. They were so popular that to this day unnecessarily complicated contraptions are known as \u201cRube Goldberg Machines\u201d\u2014though we\u2019ve forgotten him otherwise. Discover Goldberg\u2019s art in this survey of his career.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Trenton Doyle Hancock, \u201cAnd the Branches Became as Storm Clouds,\u201d 2003, mixed media on canvas.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nTrenton Doyle Hancock \u201cMind of the Mound: Critical Mass,\u201d<\/a> Mass MoCA, North Adams, Massachusetts, opens March 9, 2019<\/h3>\nInspired by comics, Greek mythology and his evangelical Baptist upbringing, the Houston artist deploys paintings, sculpture, drawings, prints, installations and performance to tell his story of the Mounds (\u201cgentle hybrid plant-like creatures\u201d), protected by his alter ego\/superhero Torpedo Boy, and their enemies, the Vegans (\u201cmutants who consume tofu and spill Mound blood every chance they get\u201d).<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Alessandro Trincone, \u201cAnnodami (detail),\u201d January 2016. (Photographer: Gioconda & August. Model: Andrea Antonelli)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cGender Bending Fashion,\u201d<\/a> Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, March 16 to Aug. 25, 2019.<\/h3>\nMore than 60 \u201cboundary-pushing designs\u201d recount a century of haute couture and ready-to-wear fashion that has challenged rigid, binary definitions of dress. Including designs by Rad Hourani, Jean Paul Gaultier, Alessandro Michele for Gucci, Palomo, and Rei Kawakubo, as well as pieces worn by Marlene Dietrich, David Bowie, Jimi Hendrix and Young Thug.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Huma Bhabha, \u201cThe Orientalist,\u201d 2007, bronze. (\u00a9 Huma Bhabha)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cHuma Bhabha: They Live,\u201d<\/a> Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, March 23 to May 27, 2019<\/h3>\nThe ICA bills this exhibition as \u201cthe largest survey\u201d ever of Bhabha, who was raised in Pakistan and is now based in Poughkeepsie, New York. It features drawings, photos, and her monstrous, rough-hewn, expressionist figurative sculptures. \u201cHer work transcends a singular time and place, instead creating an exploration of what she describes as the \u2018eternal concerns\u2019 found across all cultures: war, colonialism, displacement, and memories of home.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nIf this is the kind of coverage of arts, cultures and activisms you appreciate, please support Wonderland by contributing to Wonderland on Patreon<\/a>. And sign up for our free, weekly newsletter<\/a> so that you don’t miss any of our reporting.<\/em><\/p>\n
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<\/a>Howardena Pindell \u201cWhat Remains to Be Seen,\u201d<\/a> Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, Feb. 1 to May 19, 2019<\/h3>\nFigurative paintings, abstractions, conceptual works, and personal and political art by a New York-based African American artist operating at the intersection of art and activism.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Alexandre Hogue, \u201cCrucifed Land,\u201d 1939, oil on canvas. (\u00a9 Estate of Alexandre Hogue)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cNature’s Nation: American Art and Environment,\u201d<\/a> Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts, Feb. 2 to May 5, 2019.<\/h3>\nA look at how American and Native American artists have reflected and shaped our understanding of the environment\u2014via more than 100 artworks from the colonial occupation to the present by John James Audubon, Albert Bierstadt, Thomas Cole, Valerie Hegarty, Winslow Homer, Georgia O\u2019Keeffe, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith (Salish-Kootenai) and others.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Milton Rogovin, \u201cBuffalo, New York, from the series Lower West Side,\u201d 1974, gelatin silver print. (Courtesy)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cBread and Roses: The Social Documentary of Milton and Anna Rogovin,\u201d<\/a> Davis Museum, Wellesley, Massachusetts, Feb. 7 to June 9, 2019.<\/h3>\nAmidst anti-Communist Cold War crackdowns, Milton Rogovin was labeled the \u201cTop Red in Buffalo,\u201d New York, in 1957. Isolated and ostracized, the optometrist, social activist, and self-taught photographer and his wife Anna began photographing their Buffalo neighbors in their homes and work places (always giving their sitters a copy of their photographs) to create a decades-long, multigenerational portrait of their community.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Kapwani Kiwanga, \u201cJalousie,\u201d 2018. (Courtesy Galerie J\u00e9r\u00f4me Poggi. Paris. Photo: John Dean)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nKapwani Kiwanga<\/a>, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, Feb. 8 to April 21, 2019<\/h3>\nThe Paris-based artist uses sculpture, installation, photography, video and performance to trace \u201chistorical narratives, excavating and considering the global impact of colonialism and how it permeates contemporary culture.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Lucia Moholy, \u201cBauhaus Masters Housing, Dessau, 1925\u201326: Lucia Moholy and L\u00e1szl\u00f3 Moholy-Nagy’s Living Room,\u201d c. 1925, gelatin silver print with gouache retouchings. (\u00a9 Lucia Moholy Estate\/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York\/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn. \u00a9 President and Fellows of Harvard College)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cThe Bauhaus and Harvard,\u201d<\/a> Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, Feb. 8 to July 28, 2019<\/h3>\nLocal exhibitions are honoring the 100th anniversary of the founding in 1919 of the Bauhaus, the influential German school that aimed to unify art, architecture and design. It\u2019s particularly known for a machine-inspired aesthetic of Modern, mass-produced design\u2014before the school was closed under pressure from the Nazis in 1933 and many of its stars fled to the United States. Harvard\u2019s exhibition showcases nearly 200 works by 74 artists, drawn almost entirely the school\u2019s Busch-Reisinger Museum, which claims the largest Bauhaus collection outside Germany (initiated and assembled through the efforts of founding director Walter Gropius, who joined Harvard\u2019s department of architecture in 1937, and many refugee teachers and students). Also Boston\u2019s Museum of Fine Arts offers \u201cRadical Geometries: Bauhaus Prints, 1919-33,\u201d<\/a> from Feb. 9 to June 23, 2019, and Cambridge\u2019s MIT Museum presents \u201cFragments of the World,\u201d<\/a> Bauhaus photography, from March 28 to Sept. 2, 2019.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Randa Maroufi, “Nabila et Keltoum,” 2015.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cLooking Out, Looking In: Contemporary Artists from Morocco,\u201d<\/a> Boston University\u2019s Stone Gallery, 855 Commonwealth Ave., Boston, Feb. 8 to March 31, 2019<\/h3>\nDispatches from Morocco by seven photographers and videographers from the nation examine how outsiders see the country and how its people see themselves.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Otto Piene, \u201cPlusquamperfect (Past Perfect Participle,\u201d 2003, oil and fire on canvas. (Photo \u00a9 Ante Glibota)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cFire and Light: Otto Piene in Groton, 1983\u20132014,\u201d<\/a> Fitchburg Art Museum, Massachusetts Feb. 9 to June 2, 2019<\/h3>\nIn the mid-1980s, Otto Piene\u2014a German-raised artist of kinetic light sculptures and monumental balloon installations who became a fellow at Massachusetts Institute of Technology\u2019s Center for Advanced Visual Studies in 1968 and went on to serve as director from 1974 to 1994\u2014bought a home in Groton, Massachusetts. There he experimented with new projects, creating \u201cfire paintings\u201d and filling a grain silo with a \u201cLight Ballet.\u201d This survey ranges from Piene\u2019s \u201cLight Robots,\u201d completed in 2013, to \u201cProliferation of the Sun,\u201d an immersive installation, not seen in the United States since 1968, of digitized hand-painted slides that are projected onto a large inflatable sphere and screens.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Hope Larson, Illustration for \u201cA Wrinkle in Time: The Graphic Novel.\u201d (\u00a9 2012 Hope Larson)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cOut of the Box: The Graphic Novel Comes of Age,\u201d<\/a> Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art, Amherst, Massachusetts, Feb. 10 to May 26, 2019<\/h3>\nThe revolutions of underground comics in the 1960s and \u201870s and alternative comics in the 1980s and \u201890s pioneered complex comics for grown-ups and at novel lengths. As the \u201cgraphic novel\u201d has matured since, a new crop of artists have begun making comics for kids again\u2014sophisticated, young adult, book-length comics. Children\u2019s book scholar Leonard S. Marcus rounds up poignant coming-of-age stories by the top of the field: Vera Brosgol, Catia Chien, Geoffrey Hayes, Gene Luen Yang, Jarrett J. Krosoczka, Hope Larson, Matt Phelan, David Small, Raina Telgemeier, and Sara Varon.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Sandro Botticelli, \u201cThe Story of Lucretia,\u201d c. 1500, tempera and oil on panel. (Courtesy Gardner Museum)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nBotticelli: Heroines and Heroes,\u201d<\/a> Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, Feb. 14 to May 19, 2019<\/h3>\nA look at the Renaissance star Sandro Botticelli via eight monumental paintings and drawings, some never before seen in the United States, that tell the stories of Roman Catholic saints and ancient Roman kidnappings and sexual assault.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Wild Kratts “Ocean Adventure”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cWild Kratts: Ocean Adventure!\u201d<\/a> Museum of Science, Boston, opens Feb. 16, 2019<\/h3>\nMuch as in the hit animated nature adventures of PBS\u2019s \u201cWild Kratts,\u201d kids can help brothers Chris and Martin Kratt assist marine animals and foil villains\u2019 plans with technology, science and teamwork, as they learn about the seashore, shallow waters, and the deep sea.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Frida Kahlo, \u201cSelf-Portrait with Hummingbird and Thorn Necklace (detail),\u201d 1940, oil on canvas. (\u00a9 2018 Banco de M\u00e9xico Diego Rivera Frida Kahlo Museums Trust, Mexico, D.F. \/ Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cFrida Kahlo and Arte Popular,\u201d<\/a> Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Feb. 27 to June 16, 2019<\/h3>\nA rare showcase of paintings by Kahlo (1907-1954) along with \u201carte popular\u201d (folk art) ceramics, embroidered textiles, papier-m\u00e2ch\u00e9 effigies and devotional retablo paintings that inspired the Mexican artist. (If you can\u2019t get enough Kahlo, New York\u2019s Brooklyn Museum offers \u201cFrida Kahlo: Appearances Can Be Deceiving\u201d<\/a> from Feb. 8 to May 12.)<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Photographer unknown, \u201cRube Goldberg at the Famous Artists School,\u201d ca.1947. (Courtesy of Norman Rockwell Museum)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cThe Art and Wit of Rube Goldberg,\u201d<\/a> Norman Rockwell Museum, Stockbridge, Massachusetts, March 2 to June 9, 2019<\/h3>\nIn 1912, a New York newspaper cartoonist by the name of Reuben \u201cRube\u201d Goldberg began drawing a series of strips featuring terribly complex machines designed to comically accomplish simple tasks. They were so popular that to this day unnecessarily complicated contraptions are known as \u201cRube Goldberg Machines\u201d\u2014though we\u2019ve forgotten him otherwise. Discover Goldberg\u2019s art in this survey of his career.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Trenton Doyle Hancock, \u201cAnd the Branches Became as Storm Clouds,\u201d 2003, mixed media on canvas.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nTrenton Doyle Hancock \u201cMind of the Mound: Critical Mass,\u201d<\/a> Mass MoCA, North Adams, Massachusetts, opens March 9, 2019<\/h3>\nInspired by comics, Greek mythology and his evangelical Baptist upbringing, the Houston artist deploys paintings, sculpture, drawings, prints, installations and performance to tell his story of the Mounds (\u201cgentle hybrid plant-like creatures\u201d), protected by his alter ego\/superhero Torpedo Boy, and their enemies, the Vegans (\u201cmutants who consume tofu and spill Mound blood every chance they get\u201d).<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Alessandro Trincone, \u201cAnnodami (detail),\u201d January 2016. (Photographer: Gioconda & August. Model: Andrea Antonelli)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cGender Bending Fashion,\u201d<\/a> Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, March 16 to Aug. 25, 2019.<\/h3>\nMore than 60 \u201cboundary-pushing designs\u201d recount a century of haute couture and ready-to-wear fashion that has challenged rigid, binary definitions of dress. Including designs by Rad Hourani, Jean Paul Gaultier, Alessandro Michele for Gucci, Palomo, and Rei Kawakubo, as well as pieces worn by Marlene Dietrich, David Bowie, Jimi Hendrix and Young Thug.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Huma Bhabha, \u201cThe Orientalist,\u201d 2007, bronze. (\u00a9 Huma Bhabha)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cHuma Bhabha: They Live,\u201d<\/a> Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, March 23 to May 27, 2019<\/h3>\nThe ICA bills this exhibition as \u201cthe largest survey\u201d ever of Bhabha, who was raised in Pakistan and is now based in Poughkeepsie, New York. It features drawings, photos, and her monstrous, rough-hewn, expressionist figurative sculptures. \u201cHer work transcends a singular time and place, instead creating an exploration of what she describes as the \u2018eternal concerns\u2019 found across all cultures: war, colonialism, displacement, and memories of home.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nIf this is the kind of coverage of arts, cultures and activisms you appreciate, please support Wonderland by contributing to Wonderland on Patreon<\/a>. And sign up for our free, weekly newsletter<\/a> so that you don’t miss any of our reporting.<\/em><\/p>\n
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<\/a>\u201cNature’s Nation: American Art and Environment,\u201d<\/a> Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts, Feb. 2 to May 5, 2019.<\/h3>\nA look at how American and Native American artists have reflected and shaped our understanding of the environment\u2014via more than 100 artworks from the colonial occupation to the present by John James Audubon, Albert Bierstadt, Thomas Cole, Valerie Hegarty, Winslow Homer, Georgia O\u2019Keeffe, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith (Salish-Kootenai) and others.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Milton Rogovin, \u201cBuffalo, New York, from the series Lower West Side,\u201d 1974, gelatin silver print. (Courtesy)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cBread and Roses: The Social Documentary of Milton and Anna Rogovin,\u201d<\/a> Davis Museum, Wellesley, Massachusetts, Feb. 7 to June 9, 2019.<\/h3>\nAmidst anti-Communist Cold War crackdowns, Milton Rogovin was labeled the \u201cTop Red in Buffalo,\u201d New York, in 1957. Isolated and ostracized, the optometrist, social activist, and self-taught photographer and his wife Anna began photographing their Buffalo neighbors in their homes and work places (always giving their sitters a copy of their photographs) to create a decades-long, multigenerational portrait of their community.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Kapwani Kiwanga, \u201cJalousie,\u201d 2018. (Courtesy Galerie J\u00e9r\u00f4me Poggi. Paris. Photo: John Dean)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nKapwani Kiwanga<\/a>, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, Feb. 8 to April 21, 2019<\/h3>\nThe Paris-based artist uses sculpture, installation, photography, video and performance to trace \u201chistorical narratives, excavating and considering the global impact of colonialism and how it permeates contemporary culture.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Lucia Moholy, \u201cBauhaus Masters Housing, Dessau, 1925\u201326: Lucia Moholy and L\u00e1szl\u00f3 Moholy-Nagy’s Living Room,\u201d c. 1925, gelatin silver print with gouache retouchings. (\u00a9 Lucia Moholy Estate\/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York\/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn. \u00a9 President and Fellows of Harvard College)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cThe Bauhaus and Harvard,\u201d<\/a> Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, Feb. 8 to July 28, 2019<\/h3>\nLocal exhibitions are honoring the 100th anniversary of the founding in 1919 of the Bauhaus, the influential German school that aimed to unify art, architecture and design. It\u2019s particularly known for a machine-inspired aesthetic of Modern, mass-produced design\u2014before the school was closed under pressure from the Nazis in 1933 and many of its stars fled to the United States. Harvard\u2019s exhibition showcases nearly 200 works by 74 artists, drawn almost entirely the school\u2019s Busch-Reisinger Museum, which claims the largest Bauhaus collection outside Germany (initiated and assembled through the efforts of founding director Walter Gropius, who joined Harvard\u2019s department of architecture in 1937, and many refugee teachers and students). Also Boston\u2019s Museum of Fine Arts offers \u201cRadical Geometries: Bauhaus Prints, 1919-33,\u201d<\/a> from Feb. 9 to June 23, 2019, and Cambridge\u2019s MIT Museum presents \u201cFragments of the World,\u201d<\/a> Bauhaus photography, from March 28 to Sept. 2, 2019.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Randa Maroufi, “Nabila et Keltoum,” 2015.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cLooking Out, Looking In: Contemporary Artists from Morocco,\u201d<\/a> Boston University\u2019s Stone Gallery, 855 Commonwealth Ave., Boston, Feb. 8 to March 31, 2019<\/h3>\nDispatches from Morocco by seven photographers and videographers from the nation examine how outsiders see the country and how its people see themselves.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Otto Piene, \u201cPlusquamperfect (Past Perfect Participle,\u201d 2003, oil and fire on canvas. (Photo \u00a9 Ante Glibota)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cFire and Light: Otto Piene in Groton, 1983\u20132014,\u201d<\/a> Fitchburg Art Museum, Massachusetts Feb. 9 to June 2, 2019<\/h3>\nIn the mid-1980s, Otto Piene\u2014a German-raised artist of kinetic light sculptures and monumental balloon installations who became a fellow at Massachusetts Institute of Technology\u2019s Center for Advanced Visual Studies in 1968 and went on to serve as director from 1974 to 1994\u2014bought a home in Groton, Massachusetts. There he experimented with new projects, creating \u201cfire paintings\u201d and filling a grain silo with a \u201cLight Ballet.\u201d This survey ranges from Piene\u2019s \u201cLight Robots,\u201d completed in 2013, to \u201cProliferation of the Sun,\u201d an immersive installation, not seen in the United States since 1968, of digitized hand-painted slides that are projected onto a large inflatable sphere and screens.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Hope Larson, Illustration for \u201cA Wrinkle in Time: The Graphic Novel.\u201d (\u00a9 2012 Hope Larson)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cOut of the Box: The Graphic Novel Comes of Age,\u201d<\/a> Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art, Amherst, Massachusetts, Feb. 10 to May 26, 2019<\/h3>\nThe revolutions of underground comics in the 1960s and \u201870s and alternative comics in the 1980s and \u201890s pioneered complex comics for grown-ups and at novel lengths. As the \u201cgraphic novel\u201d has matured since, a new crop of artists have begun making comics for kids again\u2014sophisticated, young adult, book-length comics. Children\u2019s book scholar Leonard S. Marcus rounds up poignant coming-of-age stories by the top of the field: Vera Brosgol, Catia Chien, Geoffrey Hayes, Gene Luen Yang, Jarrett J. Krosoczka, Hope Larson, Matt Phelan, David Small, Raina Telgemeier, and Sara Varon.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Sandro Botticelli, \u201cThe Story of Lucretia,\u201d c. 1500, tempera and oil on panel. (Courtesy Gardner Museum)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nBotticelli: Heroines and Heroes,\u201d<\/a> Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, Feb. 14 to May 19, 2019<\/h3>\nA look at the Renaissance star Sandro Botticelli via eight monumental paintings and drawings, some never before seen in the United States, that tell the stories of Roman Catholic saints and ancient Roman kidnappings and sexual assault.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Wild Kratts “Ocean Adventure”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cWild Kratts: Ocean Adventure!\u201d<\/a> Museum of Science, Boston, opens Feb. 16, 2019<\/h3>\nMuch as in the hit animated nature adventures of PBS\u2019s \u201cWild Kratts,\u201d kids can help brothers Chris and Martin Kratt assist marine animals and foil villains\u2019 plans with technology, science and teamwork, as they learn about the seashore, shallow waters, and the deep sea.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Frida Kahlo, \u201cSelf-Portrait with Hummingbird and Thorn Necklace (detail),\u201d 1940, oil on canvas. (\u00a9 2018 Banco de M\u00e9xico Diego Rivera Frida Kahlo Museums Trust, Mexico, D.F. \/ Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cFrida Kahlo and Arte Popular,\u201d<\/a> Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Feb. 27 to June 16, 2019<\/h3>\nA rare showcase of paintings by Kahlo (1907-1954) along with \u201carte popular\u201d (folk art) ceramics, embroidered textiles, papier-m\u00e2ch\u00e9 effigies and devotional retablo paintings that inspired the Mexican artist. (If you can\u2019t get enough Kahlo, New York\u2019s Brooklyn Museum offers \u201cFrida Kahlo: Appearances Can Be Deceiving\u201d<\/a> from Feb. 8 to May 12.)<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Photographer unknown, \u201cRube Goldberg at the Famous Artists School,\u201d ca.1947. (Courtesy of Norman Rockwell Museum)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cThe Art and Wit of Rube Goldberg,\u201d<\/a> Norman Rockwell Museum, Stockbridge, Massachusetts, March 2 to June 9, 2019<\/h3>\nIn 1912, a New York newspaper cartoonist by the name of Reuben \u201cRube\u201d Goldberg began drawing a series of strips featuring terribly complex machines designed to comically accomplish simple tasks. They were so popular that to this day unnecessarily complicated contraptions are known as \u201cRube Goldberg Machines\u201d\u2014though we\u2019ve forgotten him otherwise. Discover Goldberg\u2019s art in this survey of his career.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Trenton Doyle Hancock, \u201cAnd the Branches Became as Storm Clouds,\u201d 2003, mixed media on canvas.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nTrenton Doyle Hancock \u201cMind of the Mound: Critical Mass,\u201d<\/a> Mass MoCA, North Adams, Massachusetts, opens March 9, 2019<\/h3>\nInspired by comics, Greek mythology and his evangelical Baptist upbringing, the Houston artist deploys paintings, sculpture, drawings, prints, installations and performance to tell his story of the Mounds (\u201cgentle hybrid plant-like creatures\u201d), protected by his alter ego\/superhero Torpedo Boy, and their enemies, the Vegans (\u201cmutants who consume tofu and spill Mound blood every chance they get\u201d).<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Alessandro Trincone, \u201cAnnodami (detail),\u201d January 2016. (Photographer: Gioconda & August. Model: Andrea Antonelli)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cGender Bending Fashion,\u201d<\/a> Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, March 16 to Aug. 25, 2019.<\/h3>\nMore than 60 \u201cboundary-pushing designs\u201d recount a century of haute couture and ready-to-wear fashion that has challenged rigid, binary definitions of dress. Including designs by Rad Hourani, Jean Paul Gaultier, Alessandro Michele for Gucci, Palomo, and Rei Kawakubo, as well as pieces worn by Marlene Dietrich, David Bowie, Jimi Hendrix and Young Thug.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Huma Bhabha, \u201cThe Orientalist,\u201d 2007, bronze. (\u00a9 Huma Bhabha)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cHuma Bhabha: They Live,\u201d<\/a> Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, March 23 to May 27, 2019<\/h3>\nThe ICA bills this exhibition as \u201cthe largest survey\u201d ever of Bhabha, who was raised in Pakistan and is now based in Poughkeepsie, New York. It features drawings, photos, and her monstrous, rough-hewn, expressionist figurative sculptures. \u201cHer work transcends a singular time and place, instead creating an exploration of what she describes as the \u2018eternal concerns\u2019 found across all cultures: war, colonialism, displacement, and memories of home.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nIf this is the kind of coverage of arts, cultures and activisms you appreciate, please support Wonderland by contributing to Wonderland on Patreon<\/a>. And sign up for our free, weekly newsletter<\/a> so that you don’t miss any of our reporting.<\/em><\/p>\n
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<\/a>\u201cBread and Roses: The Social Documentary of Milton and Anna Rogovin,\u201d<\/a> Davis Museum, Wellesley, Massachusetts, Feb. 7 to June 9, 2019.<\/h3>\nAmidst anti-Communist Cold War crackdowns, Milton Rogovin was labeled the \u201cTop Red in Buffalo,\u201d New York, in 1957. Isolated and ostracized, the optometrist, social activist, and self-taught photographer and his wife Anna began photographing their Buffalo neighbors in their homes and work places (always giving their sitters a copy of their photographs) to create a decades-long, multigenerational portrait of their community.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Kapwani Kiwanga, \u201cJalousie,\u201d 2018. (Courtesy Galerie J\u00e9r\u00f4me Poggi. Paris. Photo: John Dean)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nKapwani Kiwanga<\/a>, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, Feb. 8 to April 21, 2019<\/h3>\nThe Paris-based artist uses sculpture, installation, photography, video and performance to trace \u201chistorical narratives, excavating and considering the global impact of colonialism and how it permeates contemporary culture.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Lucia Moholy, \u201cBauhaus Masters Housing, Dessau, 1925\u201326: Lucia Moholy and L\u00e1szl\u00f3 Moholy-Nagy’s Living Room,\u201d c. 1925, gelatin silver print with gouache retouchings. (\u00a9 Lucia Moholy Estate\/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York\/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn. \u00a9 President and Fellows of Harvard College)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cThe Bauhaus and Harvard,\u201d<\/a> Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, Feb. 8 to July 28, 2019<\/h3>\nLocal exhibitions are honoring the 100th anniversary of the founding in 1919 of the Bauhaus, the influential German school that aimed to unify art, architecture and design. It\u2019s particularly known for a machine-inspired aesthetic of Modern, mass-produced design\u2014before the school was closed under pressure from the Nazis in 1933 and many of its stars fled to the United States. Harvard\u2019s exhibition showcases nearly 200 works by 74 artists, drawn almost entirely the school\u2019s Busch-Reisinger Museum, which claims the largest Bauhaus collection outside Germany (initiated and assembled through the efforts of founding director Walter Gropius, who joined Harvard\u2019s department of architecture in 1937, and many refugee teachers and students). Also Boston\u2019s Museum of Fine Arts offers \u201cRadical Geometries: Bauhaus Prints, 1919-33,\u201d<\/a> from Feb. 9 to June 23, 2019, and Cambridge\u2019s MIT Museum presents \u201cFragments of the World,\u201d<\/a> Bauhaus photography, from March 28 to Sept. 2, 2019.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Randa Maroufi, “Nabila et Keltoum,” 2015.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cLooking Out, Looking In: Contemporary Artists from Morocco,\u201d<\/a> Boston University\u2019s Stone Gallery, 855 Commonwealth Ave., Boston, Feb. 8 to March 31, 2019<\/h3>\nDispatches from Morocco by seven photographers and videographers from the nation examine how outsiders see the country and how its people see themselves.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Otto Piene, \u201cPlusquamperfect (Past Perfect Participle,\u201d 2003, oil and fire on canvas. (Photo \u00a9 Ante Glibota)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cFire and Light: Otto Piene in Groton, 1983\u20132014,\u201d<\/a> Fitchburg Art Museum, Massachusetts Feb. 9 to June 2, 2019<\/h3>\nIn the mid-1980s, Otto Piene\u2014a German-raised artist of kinetic light sculptures and monumental balloon installations who became a fellow at Massachusetts Institute of Technology\u2019s Center for Advanced Visual Studies in 1968 and went on to serve as director from 1974 to 1994\u2014bought a home in Groton, Massachusetts. There he experimented with new projects, creating \u201cfire paintings\u201d and filling a grain silo with a \u201cLight Ballet.\u201d This survey ranges from Piene\u2019s \u201cLight Robots,\u201d completed in 2013, to \u201cProliferation of the Sun,\u201d an immersive installation, not seen in the United States since 1968, of digitized hand-painted slides that are projected onto a large inflatable sphere and screens.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Hope Larson, Illustration for \u201cA Wrinkle in Time: The Graphic Novel.\u201d (\u00a9 2012 Hope Larson)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cOut of the Box: The Graphic Novel Comes of Age,\u201d<\/a> Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art, Amherst, Massachusetts, Feb. 10 to May 26, 2019<\/h3>\nThe revolutions of underground comics in the 1960s and \u201870s and alternative comics in the 1980s and \u201890s pioneered complex comics for grown-ups and at novel lengths. As the \u201cgraphic novel\u201d has matured since, a new crop of artists have begun making comics for kids again\u2014sophisticated, young adult, book-length comics. Children\u2019s book scholar Leonard S. Marcus rounds up poignant coming-of-age stories by the top of the field: Vera Brosgol, Catia Chien, Geoffrey Hayes, Gene Luen Yang, Jarrett J. Krosoczka, Hope Larson, Matt Phelan, David Small, Raina Telgemeier, and Sara Varon.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Sandro Botticelli, \u201cThe Story of Lucretia,\u201d c. 1500, tempera and oil on panel. (Courtesy Gardner Museum)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nBotticelli: Heroines and Heroes,\u201d<\/a> Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, Feb. 14 to May 19, 2019<\/h3>\nA look at the Renaissance star Sandro Botticelli via eight monumental paintings and drawings, some never before seen in the United States, that tell the stories of Roman Catholic saints and ancient Roman kidnappings and sexual assault.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Wild Kratts “Ocean Adventure”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cWild Kratts: Ocean Adventure!\u201d<\/a> Museum of Science, Boston, opens Feb. 16, 2019<\/h3>\nMuch as in the hit animated nature adventures of PBS\u2019s \u201cWild Kratts,\u201d kids can help brothers Chris and Martin Kratt assist marine animals and foil villains\u2019 plans with technology, science and teamwork, as they learn about the seashore, shallow waters, and the deep sea.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Frida Kahlo, \u201cSelf-Portrait with Hummingbird and Thorn Necklace (detail),\u201d 1940, oil on canvas. (\u00a9 2018 Banco de M\u00e9xico Diego Rivera Frida Kahlo Museums Trust, Mexico, D.F. \/ Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cFrida Kahlo and Arte Popular,\u201d<\/a> Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Feb. 27 to June 16, 2019<\/h3>\nA rare showcase of paintings by Kahlo (1907-1954) along with \u201carte popular\u201d (folk art) ceramics, embroidered textiles, papier-m\u00e2ch\u00e9 effigies and devotional retablo paintings that inspired the Mexican artist. (If you can\u2019t get enough Kahlo, New York\u2019s Brooklyn Museum offers \u201cFrida Kahlo: Appearances Can Be Deceiving\u201d<\/a> from Feb. 8 to May 12.)<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Photographer unknown, \u201cRube Goldberg at the Famous Artists School,\u201d ca.1947. (Courtesy of Norman Rockwell Museum)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cThe Art and Wit of Rube Goldberg,\u201d<\/a> Norman Rockwell Museum, Stockbridge, Massachusetts, March 2 to June 9, 2019<\/h3>\nIn 1912, a New York newspaper cartoonist by the name of Reuben \u201cRube\u201d Goldberg began drawing a series of strips featuring terribly complex machines designed to comically accomplish simple tasks. They were so popular that to this day unnecessarily complicated contraptions are known as \u201cRube Goldberg Machines\u201d\u2014though we\u2019ve forgotten him otherwise. Discover Goldberg\u2019s art in this survey of his career.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Trenton Doyle Hancock, \u201cAnd the Branches Became as Storm Clouds,\u201d 2003, mixed media on canvas.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nTrenton Doyle Hancock \u201cMind of the Mound: Critical Mass,\u201d<\/a> Mass MoCA, North Adams, Massachusetts, opens March 9, 2019<\/h3>\nInspired by comics, Greek mythology and his evangelical Baptist upbringing, the Houston artist deploys paintings, sculpture, drawings, prints, installations and performance to tell his story of the Mounds (\u201cgentle hybrid plant-like creatures\u201d), protected by his alter ego\/superhero Torpedo Boy, and their enemies, the Vegans (\u201cmutants who consume tofu and spill Mound blood every chance they get\u201d).<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Alessandro Trincone, \u201cAnnodami (detail),\u201d January 2016. (Photographer: Gioconda & August. Model: Andrea Antonelli)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cGender Bending Fashion,\u201d<\/a> Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, March 16 to Aug. 25, 2019.<\/h3>\nMore than 60 \u201cboundary-pushing designs\u201d recount a century of haute couture and ready-to-wear fashion that has challenged rigid, binary definitions of dress. Including designs by Rad Hourani, Jean Paul Gaultier, Alessandro Michele for Gucci, Palomo, and Rei Kawakubo, as well as pieces worn by Marlene Dietrich, David Bowie, Jimi Hendrix and Young Thug.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Huma Bhabha, \u201cThe Orientalist,\u201d 2007, bronze. (\u00a9 Huma Bhabha)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cHuma Bhabha: They Live,\u201d<\/a> Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, March 23 to May 27, 2019<\/h3>\nThe ICA bills this exhibition as \u201cthe largest survey\u201d ever of Bhabha, who was raised in Pakistan and is now based in Poughkeepsie, New York. It features drawings, photos, and her monstrous, rough-hewn, expressionist figurative sculptures. \u201cHer work transcends a singular time and place, instead creating an exploration of what she describes as the \u2018eternal concerns\u2019 found across all cultures: war, colonialism, displacement, and memories of home.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nIf this is the kind of coverage of arts, cultures and activisms you appreciate, please support Wonderland by contributing to Wonderland on Patreon<\/a>. And sign up for our free, weekly newsletter<\/a> so that you don’t miss any of our reporting.<\/em><\/p>\n
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<\/a>Kapwani Kiwanga<\/a>, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, Feb. 8 to April 21, 2019<\/h3>\nThe Paris-based artist uses sculpture, installation, photography, video and performance to trace \u201chistorical narratives, excavating and considering the global impact of colonialism and how it permeates contemporary culture.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Lucia Moholy, \u201cBauhaus Masters Housing, Dessau, 1925\u201326: Lucia Moholy and L\u00e1szl\u00f3 Moholy-Nagy’s Living Room,\u201d c. 1925, gelatin silver print with gouache retouchings. (\u00a9 Lucia Moholy Estate\/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York\/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn. \u00a9 President and Fellows of Harvard College)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cThe Bauhaus and Harvard,\u201d<\/a> Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, Feb. 8 to July 28, 2019<\/h3>\nLocal exhibitions are honoring the 100th anniversary of the founding in 1919 of the Bauhaus, the influential German school that aimed to unify art, architecture and design. It\u2019s particularly known for a machine-inspired aesthetic of Modern, mass-produced design\u2014before the school was closed under pressure from the Nazis in 1933 and many of its stars fled to the United States. Harvard\u2019s exhibition showcases nearly 200 works by 74 artists, drawn almost entirely the school\u2019s Busch-Reisinger Museum, which claims the largest Bauhaus collection outside Germany (initiated and assembled through the efforts of founding director Walter Gropius, who joined Harvard\u2019s department of architecture in 1937, and many refugee teachers and students). Also Boston\u2019s Museum of Fine Arts offers \u201cRadical Geometries: Bauhaus Prints, 1919-33,\u201d<\/a> from Feb. 9 to June 23, 2019, and Cambridge\u2019s MIT Museum presents \u201cFragments of the World,\u201d<\/a> Bauhaus photography, from March 28 to Sept. 2, 2019.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Randa Maroufi, “Nabila et Keltoum,” 2015.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cLooking Out, Looking In: Contemporary Artists from Morocco,\u201d<\/a> Boston University\u2019s Stone Gallery, 855 Commonwealth Ave., Boston, Feb. 8 to March 31, 2019<\/h3>\nDispatches from Morocco by seven photographers and videographers from the nation examine how outsiders see the country and how its people see themselves.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Otto Piene, \u201cPlusquamperfect (Past Perfect Participle,\u201d 2003, oil and fire on canvas. (Photo \u00a9 Ante Glibota)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cFire and Light: Otto Piene in Groton, 1983\u20132014,\u201d<\/a> Fitchburg Art Museum, Massachusetts Feb. 9 to June 2, 2019<\/h3>\nIn the mid-1980s, Otto Piene\u2014a German-raised artist of kinetic light sculptures and monumental balloon installations who became a fellow at Massachusetts Institute of Technology\u2019s Center for Advanced Visual Studies in 1968 and went on to serve as director from 1974 to 1994\u2014bought a home in Groton, Massachusetts. There he experimented with new projects, creating \u201cfire paintings\u201d and filling a grain silo with a \u201cLight Ballet.\u201d This survey ranges from Piene\u2019s \u201cLight Robots,\u201d completed in 2013, to \u201cProliferation of the Sun,\u201d an immersive installation, not seen in the United States since 1968, of digitized hand-painted slides that are projected onto a large inflatable sphere and screens.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Hope Larson, Illustration for \u201cA Wrinkle in Time: The Graphic Novel.\u201d (\u00a9 2012 Hope Larson)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cOut of the Box: The Graphic Novel Comes of Age,\u201d<\/a> Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art, Amherst, Massachusetts, Feb. 10 to May 26, 2019<\/h3>\nThe revolutions of underground comics in the 1960s and \u201870s and alternative comics in the 1980s and \u201890s pioneered complex comics for grown-ups and at novel lengths. As the \u201cgraphic novel\u201d has matured since, a new crop of artists have begun making comics for kids again\u2014sophisticated, young adult, book-length comics. Children\u2019s book scholar Leonard S. Marcus rounds up poignant coming-of-age stories by the top of the field: Vera Brosgol, Catia Chien, Geoffrey Hayes, Gene Luen Yang, Jarrett J. Krosoczka, Hope Larson, Matt Phelan, David Small, Raina Telgemeier, and Sara Varon.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Sandro Botticelli, \u201cThe Story of Lucretia,\u201d c. 1500, tempera and oil on panel. (Courtesy Gardner Museum)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nBotticelli: Heroines and Heroes,\u201d<\/a> Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, Feb. 14 to May 19, 2019<\/h3>\nA look at the Renaissance star Sandro Botticelli via eight monumental paintings and drawings, some never before seen in the United States, that tell the stories of Roman Catholic saints and ancient Roman kidnappings and sexual assault.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Wild Kratts “Ocean Adventure”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cWild Kratts: Ocean Adventure!\u201d<\/a> Museum of Science, Boston, opens Feb. 16, 2019<\/h3>\nMuch as in the hit animated nature adventures of PBS\u2019s \u201cWild Kratts,\u201d kids can help brothers Chris and Martin Kratt assist marine animals and foil villains\u2019 plans with technology, science and teamwork, as they learn about the seashore, shallow waters, and the deep sea.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Frida Kahlo, \u201cSelf-Portrait with Hummingbird and Thorn Necklace (detail),\u201d 1940, oil on canvas. (\u00a9 2018 Banco de M\u00e9xico Diego Rivera Frida Kahlo Museums Trust, Mexico, D.F. \/ Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cFrida Kahlo and Arte Popular,\u201d<\/a> Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Feb. 27 to June 16, 2019<\/h3>\nA rare showcase of paintings by Kahlo (1907-1954) along with \u201carte popular\u201d (folk art) ceramics, embroidered textiles, papier-m\u00e2ch\u00e9 effigies and devotional retablo paintings that inspired the Mexican artist. (If you can\u2019t get enough Kahlo, New York\u2019s Brooklyn Museum offers \u201cFrida Kahlo: Appearances Can Be Deceiving\u201d<\/a> from Feb. 8 to May 12.)<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Photographer unknown, \u201cRube Goldberg at the Famous Artists School,\u201d ca.1947. (Courtesy of Norman Rockwell Museum)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cThe Art and Wit of Rube Goldberg,\u201d<\/a> Norman Rockwell Museum, Stockbridge, Massachusetts, March 2 to June 9, 2019<\/h3>\nIn 1912, a New York newspaper cartoonist by the name of Reuben \u201cRube\u201d Goldberg began drawing a series of strips featuring terribly complex machines designed to comically accomplish simple tasks. They were so popular that to this day unnecessarily complicated contraptions are known as \u201cRube Goldberg Machines\u201d\u2014though we\u2019ve forgotten him otherwise. Discover Goldberg\u2019s art in this survey of his career.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Trenton Doyle Hancock, \u201cAnd the Branches Became as Storm Clouds,\u201d 2003, mixed media on canvas.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nTrenton Doyle Hancock \u201cMind of the Mound: Critical Mass,\u201d<\/a> Mass MoCA, North Adams, Massachusetts, opens March 9, 2019<\/h3>\nInspired by comics, Greek mythology and his evangelical Baptist upbringing, the Houston artist deploys paintings, sculpture, drawings, prints, installations and performance to tell his story of the Mounds (\u201cgentle hybrid plant-like creatures\u201d), protected by his alter ego\/superhero Torpedo Boy, and their enemies, the Vegans (\u201cmutants who consume tofu and spill Mound blood every chance they get\u201d).<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Alessandro Trincone, \u201cAnnodami (detail),\u201d January 2016. (Photographer: Gioconda & August. Model: Andrea Antonelli)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cGender Bending Fashion,\u201d<\/a> Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, March 16 to Aug. 25, 2019.<\/h3>\nMore than 60 \u201cboundary-pushing designs\u201d recount a century of haute couture and ready-to-wear fashion that has challenged rigid, binary definitions of dress. Including designs by Rad Hourani, Jean Paul Gaultier, Alessandro Michele for Gucci, Palomo, and Rei Kawakubo, as well as pieces worn by Marlene Dietrich, David Bowie, Jimi Hendrix and Young Thug.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Huma Bhabha, \u201cThe Orientalist,\u201d 2007, bronze. (\u00a9 Huma Bhabha)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cHuma Bhabha: They Live,\u201d<\/a> Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, March 23 to May 27, 2019<\/h3>\nThe ICA bills this exhibition as \u201cthe largest survey\u201d ever of Bhabha, who was raised in Pakistan and is now based in Poughkeepsie, New York. It features drawings, photos, and her monstrous, rough-hewn, expressionist figurative sculptures. \u201cHer work transcends a singular time and place, instead creating an exploration of what she describes as the \u2018eternal concerns\u2019 found across all cultures: war, colonialism, displacement, and memories of home.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nIf this is the kind of coverage of arts, cultures and activisms you appreciate, please support Wonderland by contributing to Wonderland on Patreon<\/a>. And sign up for our free, weekly newsletter<\/a> so that you don’t miss any of our reporting.<\/em><\/p>\n
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<\/a>\u201cThe Bauhaus and Harvard,\u201d<\/a> Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, Feb. 8 to July 28, 2019<\/h3>\nLocal exhibitions are honoring the 100th anniversary of the founding in 1919 of the Bauhaus, the influential German school that aimed to unify art, architecture and design. It\u2019s particularly known for a machine-inspired aesthetic of Modern, mass-produced design\u2014before the school was closed under pressure from the Nazis in 1933 and many of its stars fled to the United States. Harvard\u2019s exhibition showcases nearly 200 works by 74 artists, drawn almost entirely the school\u2019s Busch-Reisinger Museum, which claims the largest Bauhaus collection outside Germany (initiated and assembled through the efforts of founding director Walter Gropius, who joined Harvard\u2019s department of architecture in 1937, and many refugee teachers and students). Also Boston\u2019s Museum of Fine Arts offers \u201cRadical Geometries: Bauhaus Prints, 1919-33,\u201d<\/a> from Feb. 9 to June 23, 2019, and Cambridge\u2019s MIT Museum presents \u201cFragments of the World,\u201d<\/a> Bauhaus photography, from March 28 to Sept. 2, 2019.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Randa Maroufi, “Nabila et Keltoum,” 2015.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cLooking Out, Looking In: Contemporary Artists from Morocco,\u201d<\/a> Boston University\u2019s Stone Gallery, 855 Commonwealth Ave., Boston, Feb. 8 to March 31, 2019<\/h3>\nDispatches from Morocco by seven photographers and videographers from the nation examine how outsiders see the country and how its people see themselves.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Otto Piene, \u201cPlusquamperfect (Past Perfect Participle,\u201d 2003, oil and fire on canvas. (Photo \u00a9 Ante Glibota)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cFire and Light: Otto Piene in Groton, 1983\u20132014,\u201d<\/a> Fitchburg Art Museum, Massachusetts Feb. 9 to June 2, 2019<\/h3>\nIn the mid-1980s, Otto Piene\u2014a German-raised artist of kinetic light sculptures and monumental balloon installations who became a fellow at Massachusetts Institute of Technology\u2019s Center for Advanced Visual Studies in 1968 and went on to serve as director from 1974 to 1994\u2014bought a home in Groton, Massachusetts. There he experimented with new projects, creating \u201cfire paintings\u201d and filling a grain silo with a \u201cLight Ballet.\u201d This survey ranges from Piene\u2019s \u201cLight Robots,\u201d completed in 2013, to \u201cProliferation of the Sun,\u201d an immersive installation, not seen in the United States since 1968, of digitized hand-painted slides that are projected onto a large inflatable sphere and screens.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Hope Larson, Illustration for \u201cA Wrinkle in Time: The Graphic Novel.\u201d (\u00a9 2012 Hope Larson)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cOut of the Box: The Graphic Novel Comes of Age,\u201d<\/a> Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art, Amherst, Massachusetts, Feb. 10 to May 26, 2019<\/h3>\nThe revolutions of underground comics in the 1960s and \u201870s and alternative comics in the 1980s and \u201890s pioneered complex comics for grown-ups and at novel lengths. As the \u201cgraphic novel\u201d has matured since, a new crop of artists have begun making comics for kids again\u2014sophisticated, young adult, book-length comics. Children\u2019s book scholar Leonard S. Marcus rounds up poignant coming-of-age stories by the top of the field: Vera Brosgol, Catia Chien, Geoffrey Hayes, Gene Luen Yang, Jarrett J. Krosoczka, Hope Larson, Matt Phelan, David Small, Raina Telgemeier, and Sara Varon.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Sandro Botticelli, \u201cThe Story of Lucretia,\u201d c. 1500, tempera and oil on panel. (Courtesy Gardner Museum)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nBotticelli: Heroines and Heroes,\u201d<\/a> Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, Feb. 14 to May 19, 2019<\/h3>\nA look at the Renaissance star Sandro Botticelli via eight monumental paintings and drawings, some never before seen in the United States, that tell the stories of Roman Catholic saints and ancient Roman kidnappings and sexual assault.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Wild Kratts “Ocean Adventure”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cWild Kratts: Ocean Adventure!\u201d<\/a> Museum of Science, Boston, opens Feb. 16, 2019<\/h3>\nMuch as in the hit animated nature adventures of PBS\u2019s \u201cWild Kratts,\u201d kids can help brothers Chris and Martin Kratt assist marine animals and foil villains\u2019 plans with technology, science and teamwork, as they learn about the seashore, shallow waters, and the deep sea.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Frida Kahlo, \u201cSelf-Portrait with Hummingbird and Thorn Necklace (detail),\u201d 1940, oil on canvas. (\u00a9 2018 Banco de M\u00e9xico Diego Rivera Frida Kahlo Museums Trust, Mexico, D.F. \/ Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cFrida Kahlo and Arte Popular,\u201d<\/a> Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Feb. 27 to June 16, 2019<\/h3>\nA rare showcase of paintings by Kahlo (1907-1954) along with \u201carte popular\u201d (folk art) ceramics, embroidered textiles, papier-m\u00e2ch\u00e9 effigies and devotional retablo paintings that inspired the Mexican artist. (If you can\u2019t get enough Kahlo, New York\u2019s Brooklyn Museum offers \u201cFrida Kahlo: Appearances Can Be Deceiving\u201d<\/a> from Feb. 8 to May 12.)<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Photographer unknown, \u201cRube Goldberg at the Famous Artists School,\u201d ca.1947. (Courtesy of Norman Rockwell Museum)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cThe Art and Wit of Rube Goldberg,\u201d<\/a> Norman Rockwell Museum, Stockbridge, Massachusetts, March 2 to June 9, 2019<\/h3>\nIn 1912, a New York newspaper cartoonist by the name of Reuben \u201cRube\u201d Goldberg began drawing a series of strips featuring terribly complex machines designed to comically accomplish simple tasks. They were so popular that to this day unnecessarily complicated contraptions are known as \u201cRube Goldberg Machines\u201d\u2014though we\u2019ve forgotten him otherwise. Discover Goldberg\u2019s art in this survey of his career.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Trenton Doyle Hancock, \u201cAnd the Branches Became as Storm Clouds,\u201d 2003, mixed media on canvas.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nTrenton Doyle Hancock \u201cMind of the Mound: Critical Mass,\u201d<\/a> Mass MoCA, North Adams, Massachusetts, opens March 9, 2019<\/h3>\nInspired by comics, Greek mythology and his evangelical Baptist upbringing, the Houston artist deploys paintings, sculpture, drawings, prints, installations and performance to tell his story of the Mounds (\u201cgentle hybrid plant-like creatures\u201d), protected by his alter ego\/superhero Torpedo Boy, and their enemies, the Vegans (\u201cmutants who consume tofu and spill Mound blood every chance they get\u201d).<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Alessandro Trincone, \u201cAnnodami (detail),\u201d January 2016. (Photographer: Gioconda & August. Model: Andrea Antonelli)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cGender Bending Fashion,\u201d<\/a> Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, March 16 to Aug. 25, 2019.<\/h3>\nMore than 60 \u201cboundary-pushing designs\u201d recount a century of haute couture and ready-to-wear fashion that has challenged rigid, binary definitions of dress. Including designs by Rad Hourani, Jean Paul Gaultier, Alessandro Michele for Gucci, Palomo, and Rei Kawakubo, as well as pieces worn by Marlene Dietrich, David Bowie, Jimi Hendrix and Young Thug.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Huma Bhabha, \u201cThe Orientalist,\u201d 2007, bronze. (\u00a9 Huma Bhabha)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cHuma Bhabha: They Live,\u201d<\/a> Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, March 23 to May 27, 2019<\/h3>\nThe ICA bills this exhibition as \u201cthe largest survey\u201d ever of Bhabha, who was raised in Pakistan and is now based in Poughkeepsie, New York. It features drawings, photos, and her monstrous, rough-hewn, expressionist figurative sculptures. \u201cHer work transcends a singular time and place, instead creating an exploration of what she describes as the \u2018eternal concerns\u2019 found across all cultures: war, colonialism, displacement, and memories of home.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nIf this is the kind of coverage of arts, cultures and activisms you appreciate, please support Wonderland by contributing to Wonderland on Patreon<\/a>. And sign up for our free, weekly newsletter<\/a> so that you don’t miss any of our reporting.<\/em><\/p>\n
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<\/a>\u201cLooking Out, Looking In: Contemporary Artists from Morocco,\u201d<\/a> Boston University\u2019s Stone Gallery, 855 Commonwealth Ave., Boston, Feb. 8 to March 31, 2019<\/h3>\nDispatches from Morocco by seven photographers and videographers from the nation examine how outsiders see the country and how its people see themselves.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Otto Piene, \u201cPlusquamperfect (Past Perfect Participle,\u201d 2003, oil and fire on canvas. (Photo \u00a9 Ante Glibota)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cFire and Light: Otto Piene in Groton, 1983\u20132014,\u201d<\/a> Fitchburg Art Museum, Massachusetts Feb. 9 to June 2, 2019<\/h3>\nIn the mid-1980s, Otto Piene\u2014a German-raised artist of kinetic light sculptures and monumental balloon installations who became a fellow at Massachusetts Institute of Technology\u2019s Center for Advanced Visual Studies in 1968 and went on to serve as director from 1974 to 1994\u2014bought a home in Groton, Massachusetts. There he experimented with new projects, creating \u201cfire paintings\u201d and filling a grain silo with a \u201cLight Ballet.\u201d This survey ranges from Piene\u2019s \u201cLight Robots,\u201d completed in 2013, to \u201cProliferation of the Sun,\u201d an immersive installation, not seen in the United States since 1968, of digitized hand-painted slides that are projected onto a large inflatable sphere and screens.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Hope Larson, Illustration for \u201cA Wrinkle in Time: The Graphic Novel.\u201d (\u00a9 2012 Hope Larson)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cOut of the Box: The Graphic Novel Comes of Age,\u201d<\/a> Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art, Amherst, Massachusetts, Feb. 10 to May 26, 2019<\/h3>\nThe revolutions of underground comics in the 1960s and \u201870s and alternative comics in the 1980s and \u201890s pioneered complex comics for grown-ups and at novel lengths. As the \u201cgraphic novel\u201d has matured since, a new crop of artists have begun making comics for kids again\u2014sophisticated, young adult, book-length comics. Children\u2019s book scholar Leonard S. Marcus rounds up poignant coming-of-age stories by the top of the field: Vera Brosgol, Catia Chien, Geoffrey Hayes, Gene Luen Yang, Jarrett J. Krosoczka, Hope Larson, Matt Phelan, David Small, Raina Telgemeier, and Sara Varon.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Sandro Botticelli, \u201cThe Story of Lucretia,\u201d c. 1500, tempera and oil on panel. (Courtesy Gardner Museum)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nBotticelli: Heroines and Heroes,\u201d<\/a> Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, Feb. 14 to May 19, 2019<\/h3>\nA look at the Renaissance star Sandro Botticelli via eight monumental paintings and drawings, some never before seen in the United States, that tell the stories of Roman Catholic saints and ancient Roman kidnappings and sexual assault.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Wild Kratts “Ocean Adventure”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cWild Kratts: Ocean Adventure!\u201d<\/a> Museum of Science, Boston, opens Feb. 16, 2019<\/h3>\nMuch as in the hit animated nature adventures of PBS\u2019s \u201cWild Kratts,\u201d kids can help brothers Chris and Martin Kratt assist marine animals and foil villains\u2019 plans with technology, science and teamwork, as they learn about the seashore, shallow waters, and the deep sea.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Frida Kahlo, \u201cSelf-Portrait with Hummingbird and Thorn Necklace (detail),\u201d 1940, oil on canvas. (\u00a9 2018 Banco de M\u00e9xico Diego Rivera Frida Kahlo Museums Trust, Mexico, D.F. \/ Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cFrida Kahlo and Arte Popular,\u201d<\/a> Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Feb. 27 to June 16, 2019<\/h3>\nA rare showcase of paintings by Kahlo (1907-1954) along with \u201carte popular\u201d (folk art) ceramics, embroidered textiles, papier-m\u00e2ch\u00e9 effigies and devotional retablo paintings that inspired the Mexican artist. (If you can\u2019t get enough Kahlo, New York\u2019s Brooklyn Museum offers \u201cFrida Kahlo: Appearances Can Be Deceiving\u201d<\/a> from Feb. 8 to May 12.)<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Photographer unknown, \u201cRube Goldberg at the Famous Artists School,\u201d ca.1947. (Courtesy of Norman Rockwell Museum)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cThe Art and Wit of Rube Goldberg,\u201d<\/a> Norman Rockwell Museum, Stockbridge, Massachusetts, March 2 to June 9, 2019<\/h3>\nIn 1912, a New York newspaper cartoonist by the name of Reuben \u201cRube\u201d Goldberg began drawing a series of strips featuring terribly complex machines designed to comically accomplish simple tasks. They were so popular that to this day unnecessarily complicated contraptions are known as \u201cRube Goldberg Machines\u201d\u2014though we\u2019ve forgotten him otherwise. Discover Goldberg\u2019s art in this survey of his career.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Trenton Doyle Hancock, \u201cAnd the Branches Became as Storm Clouds,\u201d 2003, mixed media on canvas.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nTrenton Doyle Hancock \u201cMind of the Mound: Critical Mass,\u201d<\/a> Mass MoCA, North Adams, Massachusetts, opens March 9, 2019<\/h3>\nInspired by comics, Greek mythology and his evangelical Baptist upbringing, the Houston artist deploys paintings, sculpture, drawings, prints, installations and performance to tell his story of the Mounds (\u201cgentle hybrid plant-like creatures\u201d), protected by his alter ego\/superhero Torpedo Boy, and their enemies, the Vegans (\u201cmutants who consume tofu and spill Mound blood every chance they get\u201d).<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Alessandro Trincone, \u201cAnnodami (detail),\u201d January 2016. (Photographer: Gioconda & August. Model: Andrea Antonelli)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cGender Bending Fashion,\u201d<\/a> Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, March 16 to Aug. 25, 2019.<\/h3>\nMore than 60 \u201cboundary-pushing designs\u201d recount a century of haute couture and ready-to-wear fashion that has challenged rigid, binary definitions of dress. Including designs by Rad Hourani, Jean Paul Gaultier, Alessandro Michele for Gucci, Palomo, and Rei Kawakubo, as well as pieces worn by Marlene Dietrich, David Bowie, Jimi Hendrix and Young Thug.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Huma Bhabha, \u201cThe Orientalist,\u201d 2007, bronze. (\u00a9 Huma Bhabha)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cHuma Bhabha: They Live,\u201d<\/a> Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, March 23 to May 27, 2019<\/h3>\nThe ICA bills this exhibition as \u201cthe largest survey\u201d ever of Bhabha, who was raised in Pakistan and is now based in Poughkeepsie, New York. It features drawings, photos, and her monstrous, rough-hewn, expressionist figurative sculptures. \u201cHer work transcends a singular time and place, instead creating an exploration of what she describes as the \u2018eternal concerns\u2019 found across all cultures: war, colonialism, displacement, and memories of home.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nIf this is the kind of coverage of arts, cultures and activisms you appreciate, please support Wonderland by contributing to Wonderland on Patreon<\/a>. And sign up for our free, weekly newsletter<\/a> so that you don’t miss any of our reporting.<\/em><\/p>\n
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<\/a>\u201cFire and Light: Otto Piene in Groton, 1983\u20132014,\u201d<\/a> Fitchburg Art Museum, Massachusetts Feb. 9 to June 2, 2019<\/h3>\nIn the mid-1980s, Otto Piene\u2014a German-raised artist of kinetic light sculptures and monumental balloon installations who became a fellow at Massachusetts Institute of Technology\u2019s Center for Advanced Visual Studies in 1968 and went on to serve as director from 1974 to 1994\u2014bought a home in Groton, Massachusetts. There he experimented with new projects, creating \u201cfire paintings\u201d and filling a grain silo with a \u201cLight Ballet.\u201d This survey ranges from Piene\u2019s \u201cLight Robots,\u201d completed in 2013, to \u201cProliferation of the Sun,\u201d an immersive installation, not seen in the United States since 1968, of digitized hand-painted slides that are projected onto a large inflatable sphere and screens.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Hope Larson, Illustration for \u201cA Wrinkle in Time: The Graphic Novel.\u201d (\u00a9 2012 Hope Larson)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cOut of the Box: The Graphic Novel Comes of Age,\u201d<\/a> Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art, Amherst, Massachusetts, Feb. 10 to May 26, 2019<\/h3>\nThe revolutions of underground comics in the 1960s and \u201870s and alternative comics in the 1980s and \u201890s pioneered complex comics for grown-ups and at novel lengths. As the \u201cgraphic novel\u201d has matured since, a new crop of artists have begun making comics for kids again\u2014sophisticated, young adult, book-length comics. Children\u2019s book scholar Leonard S. Marcus rounds up poignant coming-of-age stories by the top of the field: Vera Brosgol, Catia Chien, Geoffrey Hayes, Gene Luen Yang, Jarrett J. Krosoczka, Hope Larson, Matt Phelan, David Small, Raina Telgemeier, and Sara Varon.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Sandro Botticelli, \u201cThe Story of Lucretia,\u201d c. 1500, tempera and oil on panel. (Courtesy Gardner Museum)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nBotticelli: Heroines and Heroes,\u201d<\/a> Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, Feb. 14 to May 19, 2019<\/h3>\nA look at the Renaissance star Sandro Botticelli via eight monumental paintings and drawings, some never before seen in the United States, that tell the stories of Roman Catholic saints and ancient Roman kidnappings and sexual assault.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Wild Kratts “Ocean Adventure”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cWild Kratts: Ocean Adventure!\u201d<\/a> Museum of Science, Boston, opens Feb. 16, 2019<\/h3>\nMuch as in the hit animated nature adventures of PBS\u2019s \u201cWild Kratts,\u201d kids can help brothers Chris and Martin Kratt assist marine animals and foil villains\u2019 plans with technology, science and teamwork, as they learn about the seashore, shallow waters, and the deep sea.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Frida Kahlo, \u201cSelf-Portrait with Hummingbird and Thorn Necklace (detail),\u201d 1940, oil on canvas. (\u00a9 2018 Banco de M\u00e9xico Diego Rivera Frida Kahlo Museums Trust, Mexico, D.F. \/ Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cFrida Kahlo and Arte Popular,\u201d<\/a> Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Feb. 27 to June 16, 2019<\/h3>\nA rare showcase of paintings by Kahlo (1907-1954) along with \u201carte popular\u201d (folk art) ceramics, embroidered textiles, papier-m\u00e2ch\u00e9 effigies and devotional retablo paintings that inspired the Mexican artist. (If you can\u2019t get enough Kahlo, New York\u2019s Brooklyn Museum offers \u201cFrida Kahlo: Appearances Can Be Deceiving\u201d<\/a> from Feb. 8 to May 12.)<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Photographer unknown, \u201cRube Goldberg at the Famous Artists School,\u201d ca.1947. (Courtesy of Norman Rockwell Museum)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cThe Art and Wit of Rube Goldberg,\u201d<\/a> Norman Rockwell Museum, Stockbridge, Massachusetts, March 2 to June 9, 2019<\/h3>\nIn 1912, a New York newspaper cartoonist by the name of Reuben \u201cRube\u201d Goldberg began drawing a series of strips featuring terribly complex machines designed to comically accomplish simple tasks. They were so popular that to this day unnecessarily complicated contraptions are known as \u201cRube Goldberg Machines\u201d\u2014though we\u2019ve forgotten him otherwise. Discover Goldberg\u2019s art in this survey of his career.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Trenton Doyle Hancock, \u201cAnd the Branches Became as Storm Clouds,\u201d 2003, mixed media on canvas.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nTrenton Doyle Hancock \u201cMind of the Mound: Critical Mass,\u201d<\/a> Mass MoCA, North Adams, Massachusetts, opens March 9, 2019<\/h3>\nInspired by comics, Greek mythology and his evangelical Baptist upbringing, the Houston artist deploys paintings, sculpture, drawings, prints, installations and performance to tell his story of the Mounds (\u201cgentle hybrid plant-like creatures\u201d), protected by his alter ego\/superhero Torpedo Boy, and their enemies, the Vegans (\u201cmutants who consume tofu and spill Mound blood every chance they get\u201d).<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Alessandro Trincone, \u201cAnnodami (detail),\u201d January 2016. (Photographer: Gioconda & August. Model: Andrea Antonelli)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cGender Bending Fashion,\u201d<\/a> Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, March 16 to Aug. 25, 2019.<\/h3>\nMore than 60 \u201cboundary-pushing designs\u201d recount a century of haute couture and ready-to-wear fashion that has challenged rigid, binary definitions of dress. Including designs by Rad Hourani, Jean Paul Gaultier, Alessandro Michele for Gucci, Palomo, and Rei Kawakubo, as well as pieces worn by Marlene Dietrich, David Bowie, Jimi Hendrix and Young Thug.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Huma Bhabha, \u201cThe Orientalist,\u201d 2007, bronze. (\u00a9 Huma Bhabha)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cHuma Bhabha: They Live,\u201d<\/a> Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, March 23 to May 27, 2019<\/h3>\nThe ICA bills this exhibition as \u201cthe largest survey\u201d ever of Bhabha, who was raised in Pakistan and is now based in Poughkeepsie, New York. It features drawings, photos, and her monstrous, rough-hewn, expressionist figurative sculptures. \u201cHer work transcends a singular time and place, instead creating an exploration of what she describes as the \u2018eternal concerns\u2019 found across all cultures: war, colonialism, displacement, and memories of home.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nIf this is the kind of coverage of arts, cultures and activisms you appreciate, please support Wonderland by contributing to Wonderland on Patreon<\/a>. And sign up for our free, weekly newsletter<\/a> so that you don’t miss any of our reporting.<\/em><\/p>\n
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<\/a>\u201cOut of the Box: The Graphic Novel Comes of Age,\u201d<\/a> Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art, Amherst, Massachusetts, Feb. 10 to May 26, 2019<\/h3>\nThe revolutions of underground comics in the 1960s and \u201870s and alternative comics in the 1980s and \u201890s pioneered complex comics for grown-ups and at novel lengths. As the \u201cgraphic novel\u201d has matured since, a new crop of artists have begun making comics for kids again\u2014sophisticated, young adult, book-length comics. Children\u2019s book scholar Leonard S. Marcus rounds up poignant coming-of-age stories by the top of the field: Vera Brosgol, Catia Chien, Geoffrey Hayes, Gene Luen Yang, Jarrett J. Krosoczka, Hope Larson, Matt Phelan, David Small, Raina Telgemeier, and Sara Varon.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Sandro Botticelli, \u201cThe Story of Lucretia,\u201d c. 1500, tempera and oil on panel. (Courtesy Gardner Museum)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nBotticelli: Heroines and Heroes,\u201d<\/a> Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, Feb. 14 to May 19, 2019<\/h3>\nA look at the Renaissance star Sandro Botticelli via eight monumental paintings and drawings, some never before seen in the United States, that tell the stories of Roman Catholic saints and ancient Roman kidnappings and sexual assault.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Wild Kratts “Ocean Adventure”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cWild Kratts: Ocean Adventure!\u201d<\/a> Museum of Science, Boston, opens Feb. 16, 2019<\/h3>\nMuch as in the hit animated nature adventures of PBS\u2019s \u201cWild Kratts,\u201d kids can help brothers Chris and Martin Kratt assist marine animals and foil villains\u2019 plans with technology, science and teamwork, as they learn about the seashore, shallow waters, and the deep sea.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Frida Kahlo, \u201cSelf-Portrait with Hummingbird and Thorn Necklace (detail),\u201d 1940, oil on canvas. (\u00a9 2018 Banco de M\u00e9xico Diego Rivera Frida Kahlo Museums Trust, Mexico, D.F. \/ Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cFrida Kahlo and Arte Popular,\u201d<\/a> Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Feb. 27 to June 16, 2019<\/h3>\nA rare showcase of paintings by Kahlo (1907-1954) along with \u201carte popular\u201d (folk art) ceramics, embroidered textiles, papier-m\u00e2ch\u00e9 effigies and devotional retablo paintings that inspired the Mexican artist. (If you can\u2019t get enough Kahlo, New York\u2019s Brooklyn Museum offers \u201cFrida Kahlo: Appearances Can Be Deceiving\u201d<\/a> from Feb. 8 to May 12.)<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Photographer unknown, \u201cRube Goldberg at the Famous Artists School,\u201d ca.1947. (Courtesy of Norman Rockwell Museum)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cThe Art and Wit of Rube Goldberg,\u201d<\/a> Norman Rockwell Museum, Stockbridge, Massachusetts, March 2 to June 9, 2019<\/h3>\nIn 1912, a New York newspaper cartoonist by the name of Reuben \u201cRube\u201d Goldberg began drawing a series of strips featuring terribly complex machines designed to comically accomplish simple tasks. They were so popular that to this day unnecessarily complicated contraptions are known as \u201cRube Goldberg Machines\u201d\u2014though we\u2019ve forgotten him otherwise. Discover Goldberg\u2019s art in this survey of his career.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Trenton Doyle Hancock, \u201cAnd the Branches Became as Storm Clouds,\u201d 2003, mixed media on canvas.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nTrenton Doyle Hancock \u201cMind of the Mound: Critical Mass,\u201d<\/a> Mass MoCA, North Adams, Massachusetts, opens March 9, 2019<\/h3>\nInspired by comics, Greek mythology and his evangelical Baptist upbringing, the Houston artist deploys paintings, sculpture, drawings, prints, installations and performance to tell his story of the Mounds (\u201cgentle hybrid plant-like creatures\u201d), protected by his alter ego\/superhero Torpedo Boy, and their enemies, the Vegans (\u201cmutants who consume tofu and spill Mound blood every chance they get\u201d).<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Alessandro Trincone, \u201cAnnodami (detail),\u201d January 2016. (Photographer: Gioconda & August. Model: Andrea Antonelli)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cGender Bending Fashion,\u201d<\/a> Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, March 16 to Aug. 25, 2019.<\/h3>\nMore than 60 \u201cboundary-pushing designs\u201d recount a century of haute couture and ready-to-wear fashion that has challenged rigid, binary definitions of dress. Including designs by Rad Hourani, Jean Paul Gaultier, Alessandro Michele for Gucci, Palomo, and Rei Kawakubo, as well as pieces worn by Marlene Dietrich, David Bowie, Jimi Hendrix and Young Thug.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Huma Bhabha, \u201cThe Orientalist,\u201d 2007, bronze. (\u00a9 Huma Bhabha)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cHuma Bhabha: They Live,\u201d<\/a> Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, March 23 to May 27, 2019<\/h3>\nThe ICA bills this exhibition as \u201cthe largest survey\u201d ever of Bhabha, who was raised in Pakistan and is now based in Poughkeepsie, New York. It features drawings, photos, and her monstrous, rough-hewn, expressionist figurative sculptures. \u201cHer work transcends a singular time and place, instead creating an exploration of what she describes as the \u2018eternal concerns\u2019 found across all cultures: war, colonialism, displacement, and memories of home.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nIf this is the kind of coverage of arts, cultures and activisms you appreciate, please support Wonderland by contributing to Wonderland on Patreon<\/a>. And sign up for our free, weekly newsletter<\/a> so that you don’t miss any of our reporting.<\/em><\/p>\n
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<\/a>Botticelli: Heroines and Heroes,\u201d<\/a> Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, Feb. 14 to May 19, 2019<\/h3>\nA look at the Renaissance star Sandro Botticelli via eight monumental paintings and drawings, some never before seen in the United States, that tell the stories of Roman Catholic saints and ancient Roman kidnappings and sexual assault.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Wild Kratts “Ocean Adventure”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cWild Kratts: Ocean Adventure!\u201d<\/a> Museum of Science, Boston, opens Feb. 16, 2019<\/h3>\nMuch as in the hit animated nature adventures of PBS\u2019s \u201cWild Kratts,\u201d kids can help brothers Chris and Martin Kratt assist marine animals and foil villains\u2019 plans with technology, science and teamwork, as they learn about the seashore, shallow waters, and the deep sea.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Frida Kahlo, \u201cSelf-Portrait with Hummingbird and Thorn Necklace (detail),\u201d 1940, oil on canvas. (\u00a9 2018 Banco de M\u00e9xico Diego Rivera Frida Kahlo Museums Trust, Mexico, D.F. \/ Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cFrida Kahlo and Arte Popular,\u201d<\/a> Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Feb. 27 to June 16, 2019<\/h3>\nA rare showcase of paintings by Kahlo (1907-1954) along with \u201carte popular\u201d (folk art) ceramics, embroidered textiles, papier-m\u00e2ch\u00e9 effigies and devotional retablo paintings that inspired the Mexican artist. (If you can\u2019t get enough Kahlo, New York\u2019s Brooklyn Museum offers \u201cFrida Kahlo: Appearances Can Be Deceiving\u201d<\/a> from Feb. 8 to May 12.)<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Photographer unknown, \u201cRube Goldberg at the Famous Artists School,\u201d ca.1947. (Courtesy of Norman Rockwell Museum)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cThe Art and Wit of Rube Goldberg,\u201d<\/a> Norman Rockwell Museum, Stockbridge, Massachusetts, March 2 to June 9, 2019<\/h3>\nIn 1912, a New York newspaper cartoonist by the name of Reuben \u201cRube\u201d Goldberg began drawing a series of strips featuring terribly complex machines designed to comically accomplish simple tasks. They were so popular that to this day unnecessarily complicated contraptions are known as \u201cRube Goldberg Machines\u201d\u2014though we\u2019ve forgotten him otherwise. Discover Goldberg\u2019s art in this survey of his career.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Trenton Doyle Hancock, \u201cAnd the Branches Became as Storm Clouds,\u201d 2003, mixed media on canvas.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nTrenton Doyle Hancock \u201cMind of the Mound: Critical Mass,\u201d<\/a> Mass MoCA, North Adams, Massachusetts, opens March 9, 2019<\/h3>\nInspired by comics, Greek mythology and his evangelical Baptist upbringing, the Houston artist deploys paintings, sculpture, drawings, prints, installations and performance to tell his story of the Mounds (\u201cgentle hybrid plant-like creatures\u201d), protected by his alter ego\/superhero Torpedo Boy, and their enemies, the Vegans (\u201cmutants who consume tofu and spill Mound blood every chance they get\u201d).<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Alessandro Trincone, \u201cAnnodami (detail),\u201d January 2016. (Photographer: Gioconda & August. Model: Andrea Antonelli)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cGender Bending Fashion,\u201d<\/a> Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, March 16 to Aug. 25, 2019.<\/h3>\nMore than 60 \u201cboundary-pushing designs\u201d recount a century of haute couture and ready-to-wear fashion that has challenged rigid, binary definitions of dress. Including designs by Rad Hourani, Jean Paul Gaultier, Alessandro Michele for Gucci, Palomo, and Rei Kawakubo, as well as pieces worn by Marlene Dietrich, David Bowie, Jimi Hendrix and Young Thug.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Huma Bhabha, \u201cThe Orientalist,\u201d 2007, bronze. (\u00a9 Huma Bhabha)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cHuma Bhabha: They Live,\u201d<\/a> Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, March 23 to May 27, 2019<\/h3>\nThe ICA bills this exhibition as \u201cthe largest survey\u201d ever of Bhabha, who was raised in Pakistan and is now based in Poughkeepsie, New York. It features drawings, photos, and her monstrous, rough-hewn, expressionist figurative sculptures. \u201cHer work transcends a singular time and place, instead creating an exploration of what she describes as the \u2018eternal concerns\u2019 found across all cultures: war, colonialism, displacement, and memories of home.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nIf this is the kind of coverage of arts, cultures and activisms you appreciate, please support Wonderland by contributing to Wonderland on Patreon<\/a>. And sign up for our free, weekly newsletter<\/a> so that you don’t miss any of our reporting.<\/em><\/p>\n
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<\/a>\u201cWild Kratts: Ocean Adventure!\u201d<\/a> Museum of Science, Boston, opens Feb. 16, 2019<\/h3>\nMuch as in the hit animated nature adventures of PBS\u2019s \u201cWild Kratts,\u201d kids can help brothers Chris and Martin Kratt assist marine animals and foil villains\u2019 plans with technology, science and teamwork, as they learn about the seashore, shallow waters, and the deep sea.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Frida Kahlo, \u201cSelf-Portrait with Hummingbird and Thorn Necklace (detail),\u201d 1940, oil on canvas. (\u00a9 2018 Banco de M\u00e9xico Diego Rivera Frida Kahlo Museums Trust, Mexico, D.F. \/ Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cFrida Kahlo and Arte Popular,\u201d<\/a> Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Feb. 27 to June 16, 2019<\/h3>\nA rare showcase of paintings by Kahlo (1907-1954) along with \u201carte popular\u201d (folk art) ceramics, embroidered textiles, papier-m\u00e2ch\u00e9 effigies and devotional retablo paintings that inspired the Mexican artist. (If you can\u2019t get enough Kahlo, New York\u2019s Brooklyn Museum offers \u201cFrida Kahlo: Appearances Can Be Deceiving\u201d<\/a> from Feb. 8 to May 12.)<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Photographer unknown, \u201cRube Goldberg at the Famous Artists School,\u201d ca.1947. (Courtesy of Norman Rockwell Museum)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cThe Art and Wit of Rube Goldberg,\u201d<\/a> Norman Rockwell Museum, Stockbridge, Massachusetts, March 2 to June 9, 2019<\/h3>\nIn 1912, a New York newspaper cartoonist by the name of Reuben \u201cRube\u201d Goldberg began drawing a series of strips featuring terribly complex machines designed to comically accomplish simple tasks. They were so popular that to this day unnecessarily complicated contraptions are known as \u201cRube Goldberg Machines\u201d\u2014though we\u2019ve forgotten him otherwise. Discover Goldberg\u2019s art in this survey of his career.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Trenton Doyle Hancock, \u201cAnd the Branches Became as Storm Clouds,\u201d 2003, mixed media on canvas.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nTrenton Doyle Hancock \u201cMind of the Mound: Critical Mass,\u201d<\/a> Mass MoCA, North Adams, Massachusetts, opens March 9, 2019<\/h3>\nInspired by comics, Greek mythology and his evangelical Baptist upbringing, the Houston artist deploys paintings, sculpture, drawings, prints, installations and performance to tell his story of the Mounds (\u201cgentle hybrid plant-like creatures\u201d), protected by his alter ego\/superhero Torpedo Boy, and their enemies, the Vegans (\u201cmutants who consume tofu and spill Mound blood every chance they get\u201d).<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Alessandro Trincone, \u201cAnnodami (detail),\u201d January 2016. (Photographer: Gioconda & August. Model: Andrea Antonelli)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cGender Bending Fashion,\u201d<\/a> Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, March 16 to Aug. 25, 2019.<\/h3>\nMore than 60 \u201cboundary-pushing designs\u201d recount a century of haute couture and ready-to-wear fashion that has challenged rigid, binary definitions of dress. Including designs by Rad Hourani, Jean Paul Gaultier, Alessandro Michele for Gucci, Palomo, and Rei Kawakubo, as well as pieces worn by Marlene Dietrich, David Bowie, Jimi Hendrix and Young Thug.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Huma Bhabha, \u201cThe Orientalist,\u201d 2007, bronze. (\u00a9 Huma Bhabha)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cHuma Bhabha: They Live,\u201d<\/a> Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, March 23 to May 27, 2019<\/h3>\nThe ICA bills this exhibition as \u201cthe largest survey\u201d ever of Bhabha, who was raised in Pakistan and is now based in Poughkeepsie, New York. It features drawings, photos, and her monstrous, rough-hewn, expressionist figurative sculptures. \u201cHer work transcends a singular time and place, instead creating an exploration of what she describes as the \u2018eternal concerns\u2019 found across all cultures: war, colonialism, displacement, and memories of home.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nIf this is the kind of coverage of arts, cultures and activisms you appreciate, please support Wonderland by contributing to Wonderland on Patreon<\/a>. And sign up for our free, weekly newsletter<\/a> so that you don’t miss any of our reporting.<\/em><\/p>\n
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<\/a>\u201cFrida Kahlo and Arte Popular,\u201d<\/a> Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Feb. 27 to June 16, 2019<\/h3>\nA rare showcase of paintings by Kahlo (1907-1954) along with \u201carte popular\u201d (folk art) ceramics, embroidered textiles, papier-m\u00e2ch\u00e9 effigies and devotional retablo paintings that inspired the Mexican artist. (If you can\u2019t get enough Kahlo, New York\u2019s Brooklyn Museum offers \u201cFrida Kahlo: Appearances Can Be Deceiving\u201d<\/a> from Feb. 8 to May 12.)<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Photographer unknown, \u201cRube Goldberg at the Famous Artists School,\u201d ca.1947. (Courtesy of Norman Rockwell Museum)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cThe Art and Wit of Rube Goldberg,\u201d<\/a> Norman Rockwell Museum, Stockbridge, Massachusetts, March 2 to June 9, 2019<\/h3>\nIn 1912, a New York newspaper cartoonist by the name of Reuben \u201cRube\u201d Goldberg began drawing a series of strips featuring terribly complex machines designed to comically accomplish simple tasks. They were so popular that to this day unnecessarily complicated contraptions are known as \u201cRube Goldberg Machines\u201d\u2014though we\u2019ve forgotten him otherwise. Discover Goldberg\u2019s art in this survey of his career.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Trenton Doyle Hancock, \u201cAnd the Branches Became as Storm Clouds,\u201d 2003, mixed media on canvas.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nTrenton Doyle Hancock \u201cMind of the Mound: Critical Mass,\u201d<\/a> Mass MoCA, North Adams, Massachusetts, opens March 9, 2019<\/h3>\nInspired by comics, Greek mythology and his evangelical Baptist upbringing, the Houston artist deploys paintings, sculpture, drawings, prints, installations and performance to tell his story of the Mounds (\u201cgentle hybrid plant-like creatures\u201d), protected by his alter ego\/superhero Torpedo Boy, and their enemies, the Vegans (\u201cmutants who consume tofu and spill Mound blood every chance they get\u201d).<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Alessandro Trincone, \u201cAnnodami (detail),\u201d January 2016. (Photographer: Gioconda & August. Model: Andrea Antonelli)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cGender Bending Fashion,\u201d<\/a> Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, March 16 to Aug. 25, 2019.<\/h3>\nMore than 60 \u201cboundary-pushing designs\u201d recount a century of haute couture and ready-to-wear fashion that has challenged rigid, binary definitions of dress. Including designs by Rad Hourani, Jean Paul Gaultier, Alessandro Michele for Gucci, Palomo, and Rei Kawakubo, as well as pieces worn by Marlene Dietrich, David Bowie, Jimi Hendrix and Young Thug.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Huma Bhabha, \u201cThe Orientalist,\u201d 2007, bronze. (\u00a9 Huma Bhabha)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cHuma Bhabha: They Live,\u201d<\/a> Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, March 23 to May 27, 2019<\/h3>\nThe ICA bills this exhibition as \u201cthe largest survey\u201d ever of Bhabha, who was raised in Pakistan and is now based in Poughkeepsie, New York. It features drawings, photos, and her monstrous, rough-hewn, expressionist figurative sculptures. \u201cHer work transcends a singular time and place, instead creating an exploration of what she describes as the \u2018eternal concerns\u2019 found across all cultures: war, colonialism, displacement, and memories of home.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nIf this is the kind of coverage of arts, cultures and activisms you appreciate, please support Wonderland by contributing to Wonderland on Patreon<\/a>. And sign up for our free, weekly newsletter<\/a> so that you don’t miss any of our reporting.<\/em><\/p>\n
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<\/a>\u201cThe Art and Wit of Rube Goldberg,\u201d<\/a> Norman Rockwell Museum, Stockbridge, Massachusetts, March 2 to June 9, 2019<\/h3>\nIn 1912, a New York newspaper cartoonist by the name of Reuben \u201cRube\u201d Goldberg began drawing a series of strips featuring terribly complex machines designed to comically accomplish simple tasks. They were so popular that to this day unnecessarily complicated contraptions are known as \u201cRube Goldberg Machines\u201d\u2014though we\u2019ve forgotten him otherwise. Discover Goldberg\u2019s art in this survey of his career.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Trenton Doyle Hancock, \u201cAnd the Branches Became as Storm Clouds,\u201d 2003, mixed media on canvas.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nTrenton Doyle Hancock \u201cMind of the Mound: Critical Mass,\u201d<\/a> Mass MoCA, North Adams, Massachusetts, opens March 9, 2019<\/h3>\nInspired by comics, Greek mythology and his evangelical Baptist upbringing, the Houston artist deploys paintings, sculpture, drawings, prints, installations and performance to tell his story of the Mounds (\u201cgentle hybrid plant-like creatures\u201d), protected by his alter ego\/superhero Torpedo Boy, and their enemies, the Vegans (\u201cmutants who consume tofu and spill Mound blood every chance they get\u201d).<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Alessandro Trincone, \u201cAnnodami (detail),\u201d January 2016. (Photographer: Gioconda & August. Model: Andrea Antonelli)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cGender Bending Fashion,\u201d<\/a> Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, March 16 to Aug. 25, 2019.<\/h3>\nMore than 60 \u201cboundary-pushing designs\u201d recount a century of haute couture and ready-to-wear fashion that has challenged rigid, binary definitions of dress. Including designs by Rad Hourani, Jean Paul Gaultier, Alessandro Michele for Gucci, Palomo, and Rei Kawakubo, as well as pieces worn by Marlene Dietrich, David Bowie, Jimi Hendrix and Young Thug.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Huma Bhabha, \u201cThe Orientalist,\u201d 2007, bronze. (\u00a9 Huma Bhabha)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cHuma Bhabha: They Live,\u201d<\/a> Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, March 23 to May 27, 2019<\/h3>\nThe ICA bills this exhibition as \u201cthe largest survey\u201d ever of Bhabha, who was raised in Pakistan and is now based in Poughkeepsie, New York. It features drawings, photos, and her monstrous, rough-hewn, expressionist figurative sculptures. \u201cHer work transcends a singular time and place, instead creating an exploration of what she describes as the \u2018eternal concerns\u2019 found across all cultures: war, colonialism, displacement, and memories of home.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nIf this is the kind of coverage of arts, cultures and activisms you appreciate, please support Wonderland by contributing to Wonderland on Patreon<\/a>. And sign up for our free, weekly newsletter<\/a> so that you don’t miss any of our reporting.<\/em><\/p>\n
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<\/a>Trenton Doyle Hancock \u201cMind of the Mound: Critical Mass,\u201d<\/a> Mass MoCA, North Adams, Massachusetts, opens March 9, 2019<\/h3>\nInspired by comics, Greek mythology and his evangelical Baptist upbringing, the Houston artist deploys paintings, sculpture, drawings, prints, installations and performance to tell his story of the Mounds (\u201cgentle hybrid plant-like creatures\u201d), protected by his alter ego\/superhero Torpedo Boy, and their enemies, the Vegans (\u201cmutants who consume tofu and spill Mound blood every chance they get\u201d).<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Alessandro Trincone, \u201cAnnodami (detail),\u201d January 2016. (Photographer: Gioconda & August. Model: Andrea Antonelli)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cGender Bending Fashion,\u201d<\/a> Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, March 16 to Aug. 25, 2019.<\/h3>\nMore than 60 \u201cboundary-pushing designs\u201d recount a century of haute couture and ready-to-wear fashion that has challenged rigid, binary definitions of dress. Including designs by Rad Hourani, Jean Paul Gaultier, Alessandro Michele for Gucci, Palomo, and Rei Kawakubo, as well as pieces worn by Marlene Dietrich, David Bowie, Jimi Hendrix and Young Thug.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Huma Bhabha, \u201cThe Orientalist,\u201d 2007, bronze. (\u00a9 Huma Bhabha)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cHuma Bhabha: They Live,\u201d<\/a> Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, March 23 to May 27, 2019<\/h3>\nThe ICA bills this exhibition as \u201cthe largest survey\u201d ever of Bhabha, who was raised in Pakistan and is now based in Poughkeepsie, New York. It features drawings, photos, and her monstrous, rough-hewn, expressionist figurative sculptures. \u201cHer work transcends a singular time and place, instead creating an exploration of what she describes as the \u2018eternal concerns\u2019 found across all cultures: war, colonialism, displacement, and memories of home.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nIf this is the kind of coverage of arts, cultures and activisms you appreciate, please support Wonderland by contributing to Wonderland on Patreon<\/a>. And sign up for our free, weekly newsletter<\/a> so that you don’t miss any of our reporting.<\/em><\/p>\n
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<\/a>\u201cGender Bending Fashion,\u201d<\/a> Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, March 16 to Aug. 25, 2019.<\/h3>\nMore than 60 \u201cboundary-pushing designs\u201d recount a century of haute couture and ready-to-wear fashion that has challenged rigid, binary definitions of dress. Including designs by Rad Hourani, Jean Paul Gaultier, Alessandro Michele for Gucci, Palomo, and Rei Kawakubo, as well as pieces worn by Marlene Dietrich, David Bowie, Jimi Hendrix and Young Thug.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Huma Bhabha, \u201cThe Orientalist,\u201d 2007, bronze. (\u00a9 Huma Bhabha)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cHuma Bhabha: They Live,\u201d<\/a> Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, March 23 to May 27, 2019<\/h3>\nThe ICA bills this exhibition as \u201cthe largest survey\u201d ever of Bhabha, who was raised in Pakistan and is now based in Poughkeepsie, New York. It features drawings, photos, and her monstrous, rough-hewn, expressionist figurative sculptures. \u201cHer work transcends a singular time and place, instead creating an exploration of what she describes as the \u2018eternal concerns\u2019 found across all cultures: war, colonialism, displacement, and memories of home.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nIf this is the kind of coverage of arts, cultures and activisms you appreciate, please support Wonderland by contributing to Wonderland on Patreon<\/a>. And sign up for our free, weekly newsletter<\/a> so that you don’t miss any of our reporting.<\/em><\/p>\n
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<\/a>\u201cHuma Bhabha: They Live,\u201d<\/a> Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, March 23 to May 27, 2019<\/h3>\nThe ICA bills this exhibition as \u201cthe largest survey\u201d ever of Bhabha, who was raised in Pakistan and is now based in Poughkeepsie, New York. It features drawings, photos, and her monstrous, rough-hewn, expressionist figurative sculptures. \u201cHer work transcends a singular time and place, instead creating an exploration of what she describes as the \u2018eternal concerns\u2019 found across all cultures: war, colonialism, displacement, and memories of home.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nIf this is the kind of coverage of arts, cultures and activisms you appreciate, please support Wonderland by contributing to Wonderland on Patreon<\/a>. And sign up for our free, weekly newsletter<\/a> so that you don’t miss any of our reporting.<\/em><\/p>\n
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