ルイス・キャロルのお伽の世界( World of fairy of Lewis Carroll) advertising poster Mitsukoshi Department store - Japan - 2009

Photo via Tiashou-kun

utterly beautiful Tenniel-styled Through the Looking-Glass illustration by Irina Kuksova.

One of my very favorite illustrations! 

Alice film festival "Through the Looking Glass" in Amsterdam, Netherlands until January!

The programme includes the very first Alice in Wonderland film adaptation dating from 1903, next to the well-known Disney animation of 1951 as well as Tim Burton’s 3D reinterpretation of the Disney film, made in 2010 … on behalf of the same Disney company
The programme also includes films by directors who were directly or indirectly inspired by the story of a little girl that crawls into a rabbit hole and finds herself in a world where animals can speak and a riddle best remains a riddle.
Talking with fantasy creatures and being able to move in an alien world without any effort: Terry Gilliam, Lana and Lilly Wachowski, and Roman Polanski they all found Carroll’s ‘fall into the rabbit hole’ irresistible as well.

Alice film festival "Through the Looking-Glass" begins in Amsterdam, Netherlands this month at Eyefilm Museum.

The 8 film festival features alongside Alice: The Virtual Reality play, a VR experience.

1903, 1951 disney, 1988 Jan Svankmajer and 2010 burton will all be screening alongside more unusual picks such as Wild at Heart (1990) Che? (1972) The Matrix (1999) and Tideland (2006)

Like ACMI's Alice is everywhere festival, this film festival is for an adult audience and features  subversive down the rabbit hole trope films. 

Starts 22nd of december, ends 5th of January! 

Everything coming to V and A's Alice exhibition that we know so far...

This week V and A museum in London unveiled the first batch of confirmed exhibits which will be part of their massive Alice retrospective exhibition in June 2020.

Here's a list of everything we know so far. 

Of course I must add as a disclaimer that all this is subject to change. 

NOTES:

The name of the exhibition has now changed twice. It is now called "Alice: curiouser and curiouser". It is still not known if this is the final name for the exhibition.

As far as I know this is still ACMI's Wonderland but with LOTS of added things for London. 

With that out of the way...

CONFIRMED

• Charles Dodgson's manuscripts (Probably AAUG, possibly letters as well) 

• National Art Gallery prints of John Tenniel's Alice (only AAIW confirmed at moment, probably will feature TTLG too)

• An Old Woman (Ugly Duchess) print Quinten Massys. 

• Photographs of Alice Liddell (Julia Margret Cameron confirmed, Charles Dodgson will likely feature too)

• Tim Walker and Annie Leibovitz fashion photography. Fashion by Iris van Herpen. 

• Japanese clothing 

• Stage costumes and designs, Christopher Wheeldon's AAIW ballet confirmed. 

• Section on surrealism and 1960s psychedelia featuring Max Ernst, Peter Blake, Salvador Dalí, Yayoi Kusama,  Joseph McHugh and Ralph Steadman.

• Music section on the Beatles. 

• Massive film section: 1951 and 2010 concept art confirmed (more to come?) 

References:

Association, P. (2019, November 28). Curators promise 'mind-bending' Alice In Wonderland exhibition. Retrieved from https://www.eveningexpress.co.uk/lifestyle/entertainment/curators-promise-mind-bending-alice-in-wonderland-exhibition/.

Cowan, K. (2019, November 28). Take a mind-bending trip down the rabbit hole at the V&A, as it celebrates Alice in Wonderland. Retrieved from https://www.creativeboom.com/inspiration/alice-curiouser-and-curiouser-the-vas-landmark-exhibition-in-2020-will-celebrate-one-of-the-most-iconic-and-inspiring-stories-of-our-time/.

Mattfromlondon. (2019, November 30). V&A's Alice In Wonderland Exhibition Will Take You Down A Rabbit Hole Into A Magical World. Retrieved from https://londonist.com/london/v-a-alice.

Mitchell, B., Peake, T., & Super Nintendo World Universal Studios Japan. (2019, November 29). V&A unveils immersive Alice in Wonderland exhibition for 2020. Retrieved from https://blooloop.com/news/va-alice-wonderland-curiouser-exhibition/.

Time Out London. (2019, August 1). Alice: Curiouser and Curiouser: V&A: Museums in London. Retrieved from https://www.timeout.com/london/museums/alice-curiouser-and-curiouser.

Time Out London. (2019, August 1). Alice: Curiouser and Curiouser: V&A: Museums in London. Retrieved from https://www.timeout.com/london/museums/alice-curiouser-and-curiouser.