Hokusai: The Great Picture Book of Everything

The Great Picture Book of Everything is a stunning encyclopaedia of Japanese 19th century knowledge, illustrating nature, myth, anthropology, and providing a window into the imagination and technical skill of the master Katsushika Hokusai. Hokusai did 103 beautiful ink brush drawings on small pieces of paper, which are some of the few original works by the master to survive to this day. 

art where you are at

Still on our art bingeing roll. . . .wonder | wander | world invites all to "Art Where You're At" - a special series of NPR. 

An informal series showcasing offerings at museums closed because of COVID-19 or at museums you may not be able to visit.

recent featured exhibits

As recently featured artist, Kyunmi Shin so aptly put it, "Art is a way for me to investigate issues of my own identity." 

What better way to get to know yourself? Surrounded by the beauty of art produced all over the world throughout the ages. 

May 2021 be better and brighter for us all! 

Heavenly Bodies at the Met Cloisters, 2018

The exhibition Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination exploded onto the New York art and fashion scene when it appeared in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2018. The main exhibit (and its crowds of admirers) consumed the Medieval Galleries of the Met, but the monastic treasure trove at The Cloisters hosted a smaller, more one-to-one experience.

John Galliano for Dior

William Blake - artist of apocalypse

William Blake was a classic poet, a print artist of incredible technique, a painter of endless imagination, and a visionary beyond his time. Earlier this year Tate Britain exhibited a massive collection of his prolific work and we couldn't wait to feature it here on wonder | wander | world.

Detail of The Great Red Dragon and the Beast from the Sea, c. 1803-5

a shared ASEAN nationhood

At wonder | wander | world we travel to indulge curiosity in cultures and peoples, diverse and varied. An interactive and applied learning from the wonderful books that ignite and spark us originally.

Vishnu & Garuda sandstone statue

Museums and exhibits are an immersive way of recreate a past lost to us in this vastly changing world of ours. They allow us to time travel and shape shift through the world of our ancestors. 

The Lost Kingdoms exhibition at Muzium Negara in Kuala Lumpur features 103 exhibits (a mixture of real artifacts and replicas) which span over fourteen centuries and the twelve kingdoms of precolonial South East Asia.

Urasawa Naoki: manga and Manben

wonder | wander | women really love artists with a lot of output. Somehow the work ethic is just as compelling and admirable to us as the work itself. So when we heard of a manga artist who put on a solo show in London with 400 original works, how could we resist? Urasawa Naoki, here we come!

Impressionism: light and water

Seeing paintings in the country where they were painted is pure magic. The French Impressionists especially were obsessed with the exact colours that reflected off their rivers and lakes and shimmered in the sky.

Regatta at Argenteuil, Claude Monet (1872)