Arts & Minds
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SMALL TOWN SCENES
Provincetown in Miniature
Elizabeth Kirby evokes the feeling of a place in intricate detail
Commercial Street in Provincetown is a theatrical place. In the summer, it’s filled with drag queens, street performers, and colorful characters. Similarly, many of its buildings embody outsize personalities. There’s […]
FUNDING FEARS
Local Arts Leaders Brace for Federal Demands and Cuts
Grants for museums, arts, and humanities are threatened, as it private giving
The Provincetown Art Association and Museum (PAAM) was supposed to hear in March whether it had been awarded a $140,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) for […]
INDIE SCREEN
No Country for Old Filmmakers
Though they’re largely overlooked, two veteran directors create cinema gems
I missed 85-year-old Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis last year — the closest IMAX screen was a couple of hours away from Truro, and I didn’t want to see such a […]
MARINE BARNYARD CHORUS
Annie Lewandowski Hears Jazz in Whale Songs
With help from cetaceans, a composer and her students learn to improvise
On their last day in Provincetown earlier this month, a group of Cornell University students piled into a van and drove to Herring Cove Beach at dusk. Though their artistic […]
MUSIC FOR LIVING
When Home Is Where the Heart Is
Cara Brindisi, a singer-songwriter and music therapist, finds a place of her own
Two years ago, Cara Brindisi went into her blind audition for Season 22 of The Voice with a plan: to join Blake Shelton’s team if the country star turned his […]
Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for April 24, 2025 through May 1, 2025
Drawing Straws With Reilly Leonard “Draw Straws,” the title of an exhibition of new work by Reilly Leonard currently at Spiritus Pizza (190 Commercial St., Provincetown), refers to the marks […]
SACRED ART
Epiphanies in the Sanctuary
At St. Mary of the Harbor, a side of Provincetown’s art colony rarely seen
On the rear wall of the nave at the Church of St. Mary of the Harbor in Provincetown is a triangular mural, Epiphany, painted by Robert Douglas Hunter. Religious iconography […]
BOOKS
Jerome Cohen’s Life in Law
The China scholar, an ‘inveterate optimist,’ holds out hope for human rights
What a life Jerome Cohen has led: Modest New Jersey roots. An education in law at Yale. Clerkships with Supreme Court justices Earl Warren and Felix Frankfurter. Practicing and teaching […]
VIRTUAL REALITY
Bondage and Disentanglement in Three Dimensions
Carlos Zerpa focuses on underdogs in his political animations
Carlos Zerpa came to the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown from Venezuela as a visual arts fellow expecting to work on an animated film that he’s been developing for […]
IN THE MIDS
Demons on the Hour
Sara Martin is a death tourist, a mockumentarian, and a poet
Sara Martin takes a seat in the courtyard at the Fine Arts Work Center and turns her face toward the sun. It’s just past 2 p.m. “Two p.m. is a […]
Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for April 17, 2025 through April 24, 2025
Images of Art and Community at Wellfleet Library Two Outer Cape artists and educators have opened their practices to one another and the public, and the result is the exhibition […]
HUMAN, NATURE
Susan Lyman Sculpts a Defiant Life Force
Beauty, sensuality, and destruction converge in works of wood and paint
In one of Susan Lyman’s sculptures, Washashore (Survivor), a white cedar tree is truncated just above the roots, like a figure cut at the torso. It stands upright, supported by […]
IN TUNE
Music of the People, for the People
Hildaland waltzes into the hidden corners of quietude and freedom
In the folklore of Orkney, the wind-and-rain-lashed, green-cliffed archipelago in the north of Scotland, “Hildaland” — meaning “hidden land” — is a paradisiacal island, invisible to most, that is the […]
Elena Kovylyaeva’s Creative Wandering
Looking at things that have been thrown away and waiting for something to happen
When Elena Kovylyaeva arrived in Provincetown in October as a Fine Arts Work Center visual arts fellow, many of the shops in town were getting ready to close for the […]
