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WONDERLAND: CURIOUS NATURE  

 

May 18–October 27, 2024

New York Botanical Garden

 

A 12-foot-tall White Rabbit at the Leon Levy Visitor Center, Mosaïcultures Internationales de Montréal, Steel frame, geraniums, sedum

 

It’s unbelievable, it’s unfamiliar, it’s NYBG like never before! Wonderland: Curious Nature celebrates the beloved children’s story Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel, Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There. In the nearly 160 years since its first publication, Wonderland has resonated with generations of readers all around the world who’ve identified with Alice—the heroine of her own story. Down a rabbit hole in a world very unlike her own, Alice presses forward with playfulness, curiosity, and an open mind, discovering her sense of self along the way.

 

Wonderland: Curious Nature transforms our 250 acres through the sights, settings, and scents of the classic Wonderland stories. Step into a colorful botanical experience that grows curiouser and curiouser as you as you encounter many beloved Wonderland characters, but rarely Alice herself. Her absence is our invitation to you to see the natural world through the fresh, curious eyes of an adventurer. As you fall deeper into these otherworldly gardens, mind-bending contemporary artworks, and gallery exhibitions filled with wonderfully weird marvels, we hope you’ll find your curiosity.

 

Here in this Wonderland, we’re all Alice.

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Topiary garden on the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory Lawn

 

 

EXHIBITION HIGHLIGHTS

 

The exhibition grows curiouser and curiouser with horticulture and art so surreal you’ll feel like you’ve stepped right into Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.

 

Follow our White Rabbit and other residents of Wonderland through the Garden, where you’ll encounter scenes from the story that give you whimsically wild new perspectives, like you’re shrinking and growing along with Alice! You’ll find larger-than-life mushrooms, an outsized chess board, a shimmering looking-glass, and more. Inside the Haupt Conservatory, discover thousands of vibrant flowers in imaginative horticultural displays that highlight the lush, blooming gardens of the Victorian era. Then dive deeper into Alice’s world in the Library—you’ll learn about the novel’s historical context and modern interpretations, including the stories of mind-altering plants, which were much-studied during the Victoria era and continue to be the subjects of cutting-edge scientific research today.

 

 

A flower show of curious plants, including colorful, whimsical mushrooms

 

#Flowers in the Conservatory

Delight in thousands of technicolor flowers that fill the Haupt Conservatory with Victorian garden displays, transporting you to the era of Alice in 19th-century England. As you explore, you’ll find traditional English garden scenes that pop with the contrast of strange and fantastical plants!

 

#On the Conservatory Lawn

A prim topiary garden—a Victorian favorite—meets fantastically shaped kinetic mushroom sculptures by FoldHaus just outside the Conservatory, where after dark you’ll find these breathing, pulsing fungi lighting up the night with a rainbow of color!

 

As you journey through Wonderland, adventuring across our 250 acres, you’ll discover other art installations beckoning you to see the natural world from a weird and wonderful point of view.

 

#Mertz Library Building

Inside the Mertz Library, a world of stories invites you to dig deeper into the long history of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, with explorations of the era of discovery that inspired Lewis Carroll’s imaginative tale, a look into its lasting popularity around the world, scientific dives into some of the plants and fungi in the book—and contemporary art that draws from Alice’s journey.

 

 

Shrumen Lumen, 2016, FoldHaus Art Collective, Corrugated plastic, aluminum and steel, Variable size

 

About Guest Curator: Jennifer R. Gross

Jennifer R. Gross is a modern and contemporary art curator and scholar whose exhibitions include Mina Loy: Strangeness is Inevitable, Richard Artschwager!, and The Société Anonyme: Modernism for America. She was previously Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Yale University Art Gallery, Chief Curator and Deputy Director of Curatorial Affairs at the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, and the founding Executive Director of the Hauser & Wirth Institute—a not-for-profit institution dedicated to the support of artists’ archives and scholarship.

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