- September 27, 2026 Another Wonderland Celebrates the rescue and restoration of a major New Deal–era mural cycle created for the children’s ward at Gouverneur Hospital, featuring Lewis Carroll’s beloved characters exploring 1930s New York City.
About This Event
Another Wonderland documents the rescue and restoration of a New Deal–era mural cycle made for the children’s ward at Gouverneur Hospital, in which Lewis Carroll’s characters are shown navigating 1930s New York City. On view at MCNY Exhibitions, the presentation situates the murals alongside the author’s interest in word play, logic and fantasy and the municipal arts programs that commissioned civic artwork in that era.
About Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
At MCNY Exhibitions, *Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland* is approached less as a children’s tale than as a cultural object with a long afterlife. First published in Victorian England, the story follows Alice’s abrupt passage into a logic-bending world populated by talking animals and unstable rules, a touchstone for what later came to be called literary nonsense. In New York, its imagery has circulated for generations through theater, illustration, and fashion, shaping the city’s taste for the surreal. The exhibition’s quiet argument is that nonsense can be a serious lens on modern life.
About the Artist
Lewis Carroll
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known by his pen name Lewis Carroll, was an English author, poet, mathematician, photographer and reluctant Anglican deacon. His most notable works are Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass (1871), some of the most important examples of Victorian literature.