Face Off is an American reality television game show on the Syfy cable network in which a group of makeup artists compete against each other to create prostheses such as… [read full post]
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A New Russian Collection by Dmitry Yermolovich
Dmitry Yermolovich, Professor of Translation at Moscow State Linguistic University and a fine illustrator as well, has previously published Wonderland, Looking-Glass, and The Snark in bilingual editions, which he discussed… [read full post]
Introducing Max Sir
Chilean-born global citizen Max Sir is an artist, painter, playwright, theater director, actor, writer, and photographer who has exhibited in New York, Moscow, Berlin, Costa Rica, Washington DC, London, Athens,… [read full post]
Tiniest Alice Sculpture Ever!
On July 7, a segment of The Misadventures of Romesh Ranganathan, a British television show hosted by the eponymous comedian/actor, featured the work of micro-miniaturist sculptor Willard Wigan, who first came to… [read full post]
Maggie Taylor’s Looking-Glass Published
Humboldt County’s “Follow the Magic”
Humboldt County, part of California’s “Emerald Triangle,” so called as it’s the largest (legal!) cannabis-producing region in the U.S., has adopted Our Girl in a series of posters and TV… [read full post]
Kalinovky Illustrations in Fine Press Reprints
Gennady Kalinovsky (1929–2006) was one of Russia’s most famous illustrators, with an oeuvre of ninety books. However, his great obsession was with Lewis Carroll’s two Alice books, even though it… [read full post]
Alice-inspired Anime and Fashion Films
In Adventures in Beauty Wonderland, Japanese pop surrealist Keiichi Tanaami crafts a 4:39-long psychedelic anime “inspired by Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland, unveiling an underworld of kaleidoscopic cosmetics.” You can also “Enter wonDiorland… [read full post]
Švankmajer’s Alice Books Are Now in English!!
Jan Švankmajer’s film Alice (originally Něco z Alenky) is well known to us all, but did you know his surreal collages served to illustrate books of both Wonderland and Looking-glass? Perhaps… [read full post]
Bridgette Mongeon’s Sculpture in Houston Is Up!
Bridgette Mongeon’s monumental tea-party sculpture, Move One Place On, is now fully installed in Evelyn’s Park in Bellaire, Texas, a suburb of Houston. She talked about it at our Spring 2015 meeting… [read full post]

