A ‘Wonderland’ at the New York Botanical Garden

Good morning. It’s Friday. Today, and on Fridays through the summer, we’ll focus on things to do in New York over the weekend.

Credit…Marlon Co/New York Botanical Garden

Things are getting curiouser and curiouser at the New York Botanical Garden.

You can go through a rabbit hole.

You can encounter White Rabbit, who is late, late, late for a very important date. (He’s there all the time and will probably be the first thing you’ll see. At 12 feet tall, he’s hard to miss.)

And you might run into the Queen of Hearts and the playing card she searches for in “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.” Don’t worry. She won’t say “off with your head.”

You’ll find those and other connections to Alice’s adventures in “Wonderland: Curious Nature,” an indoor and outdoor show at the garden that takes its inspiration from the Lewis Carroll books. The show combines literary and botanical history with contemporary art, including “Play It by Trust,” a large-scale interactive chess set by Yoko Ono. It brings to mind the living chess pieces in “Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There.”