Meetings Ahead Meetings are held remotely. Go to eastham-ma.gov/calendar-by-event-type/16 and click on a particular meeting to read its agenda. That document will provide information about how to view and take […]
Archives for 2020
Feds Appeal Ruling Protecting Native Land
The Trump Administration on July 31 appealed the ruling of a federal district court in its case against the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe. The Dept. of Interior’s March attempt to disestablish […]
PAINTING
Chet Jones Looks Beyond the Material World
With his canvases, he seeks to understand a deeper landscape
The painter Chet Jones normally doesn’t talk to journalists about his art. “I’m very unpromoting,” he says. “I know that’s a sacrilege to say, because so much art is built […]
PHOTOGRAPHY
Francis Olschafskie Develops Antique Negatives to Surreal Effect
An exhibit of vintage black-and-white photographs meets its moment
“I loved the darkroom, but the world changes,” photographer Francis Olschafskie says, a light wind scattering his raspy voice. “These prints were sort of an end for me.” Olschafskie, whose […]
ART EDUCATION
At PAAM, Tessa Bry Taylor Makes Sure the Kids Are All Right
Youth programs continue online and outdoors
“We are seeing unprecedented challenges in youth and art education,” says Tessa Bry Taylor, the Provincetown Art Association and Museum’s new curator of youth education. She took over the position […]
THE ART OF CRISIS
Coronavirus Shutdown Inspires Cynthia Packard
Live-stream classes spark a creative surge
Before the pandemic, celebrated and influential Provincetown artist Cynthia Packard was blocked for two years — she hardly painted. Every time she tried, she would feel the urge to wipe […]
GALLERIES
What’s Real About Robert Goldstrom’s Art Is His Unerring Style
Just as fish gotta swim, he’s going to paint what he sees
“I am generally a rather high-strung, tense person, anal retentive,” Robert Goldstrom says, speaking from his home in Claverack, N.Y., near Hudson, in the Hudson River Valley. “Compared to most […]
PSYCHEDELIA
Andrew Jacob Keeps the Spirit of Graffiti Art Alive
A joyful Eastham show riffs on surf culture and rebel art heroes
When Wellfleet artist Andrew Jacob was a teenager, he painted freight trains and abandoned buildings. “At night we would sneak out,” he says. “There was kind of a ‘code of […]
OUTER CAPE PORTRAIT
The Mermaid’s Grange
JULIA SALINGER / ARTIST, WRITER & ACTOR / WELLFLEET When she was in New York City, Julia Salinger worked in art galleries and the music business. She produced records and […]
STEAMERS
Virtual Carnival
Virtual Carnival by A. Crock
THE YEAR-ROUNDER
The American Dream
Recognizing a broken system for what it is
PROVINCETOWN — The American Dream rides high out on the gray waters of Provincetown Harbor this morning in the form of an immense yacht. Actually, I can see five yachts […]
OP-ED
Quahogs and Culture Change
Having the courage to ask for help
EASTHAM — The quahog fritters were sensational. In the kitchen of this house I’d known for 68 years and had quietly rattled about in for three and a half months, […]
VIGNETTE
Meteor Shower
REPORTER’S NOTEBOOK
Covering Schools Can Make You Batty
On Aug. 6, when the Nauset Regional School Committee met with all four elementary school committees in the district, nearly 100 people were on the Zoom meeting. That’s the size […]
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters, August 20, 2020
From Daniel Holt, Ronald A. Gabel, Jean Horner, and Dan Towler
Cloverleaf and Climate Change To the editor: In “We Must Act Locally on Climate” (Aug. 6, page A3), Dick Elkin clearly explains the reasons why significant building projects must, from […]
