Sneak Peek at CCMoA
“First Look,” a show of recent acquisitions at the Cape Cod Museum of Art, runs through May 15 at 60 Hope Lane in Dennis. Among the acquisitions is The Tourist by Sidney Simon, the late painter and sculptor who was a founding member of Provincetown’s Long Point Gallery. Other highlights include works by Gerrit Beneker, Charles Hawthorne, and Selina Trieff. Living artists — Ed Chesnovitch, Jim Dine, and Cherie Mittenthal, to name a few — are well represented, too. There will be an opening reception on Thursday, March 24, from 5 to 7 p.m.
Harbor Stage Company’s New Season
Wellfleet’s Harbor Stage Company has announced its 2022 season. Running June 16 through July 7 will be Sam Shepard’s Buried Child, directed by Robert Kropf, about the breakdown of a family betrayed by the American Dream. From July 14 through Aug. 6 is the world premiere of The Ballad of Bobby Botswain, a comedy by Jason Lambert and Harbor Stage co-founder Jonathan Fielding. From Aug. 11 through Sept. 4 is Bryony Lavery’s Frozen, the intertwining story of a mother, a murderer, and a clinical psychologist. Tickets will be capped at $25, with subscriptions on sale at harborstage.org in April
Dog and Pony Show
Stephen Wisbauer’s show at the Provincetown Commons, 45 Bradford St., “Animals on Tables,” is exactly what it sounds like. Running through April 3, the show consists of paintings of giraffes, frogs, and chickens on stools, dining tables, and nightstands.
“I’ve painted animals on tables going back to the mid-1980s,” says the artist. Before Wisbauer became Provincetown’s shellfish constable, he was a magazine photographer. “I used sketches of animals on tables to describe perspective to clients,” such as worm’s- and bird’s-eye view. Now, 20 years later, Wisbauer is back at it.
The show contains “nothing risqué,” says Wisbauer, so “you can bring the kids and conservatives.” The opening reception is on Sunday, March 27, from 5 to 8 p.m., with beer and clams.
Tianna Sings of ‘Lewis’
Cape Cod native Tianna Esperanza’s new single takes its name from civil rights activist Lewis H. Michaux, who owned the African National Memorial Bookstore in Harlem from 1932 to 1974. In a music video available on YouTube, Esperanza delivers the spoken verses with a jazzy cadence and understated hand movements.
The song’s chorus quotes Michaux: “Black is beautiful but black ain’t power. Knowledge is power. Cuz you can be as black as a crow, you can be as white as snow, but if you don’t know and you ain’t got no dough, you can’t go and that’s for sho.”
