Eleanor Dubinsky is a polyglot in every sense of the word. She sings in four languages: French, Spanish, Portuguese, and English. She plays the cello and the guitar. She’s lived […]
Arts & Minds
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PAINTING
In Her Painting, Midge Battelle Thinks Outside the Box
A life in art finds fulfillment in a palette knife
Painting is the sole focus of artist Midge Battelle’s work these days. Known as a photographer and respected curator in the Provincetown art scene, she considers her current artwork the […]
MUSEUM-GOING
PAAM Reopens, Featuring Two Shows on Historic Provincetown
Paintings by Ross Moffett make a connection
Returning to the Provincetown Art Association and Museum, after several months without setting foot in an art museum, feels like coming home: white walls sprinkled with paintings, the sound of […]
SCREENINGS
Mya Taylor Is the Provincetown Film Fest’s Next Wave
The trans performer is honored for her breakthrough roles
Mya Taylor, who is receiving this year’s Next Wave Award at the Provincetown International Film Festival, has a burgeoning career as a transgender performer in Hollywood. But before her breakthrough […]
BOOK REVIEW
The Contrasts and Convergence of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.
Penial Joseph’s The Sword and the Shield examines the titans of black power and civil rights
In 1972, James Baldwin wrote “The Shot That Echoes Still,” a painful and personal essay for Esquire magazine reflecting on the assassinations of Malcolm X in 1965 and Martin Luther […]
Arts Briefs and Listings
Arts Briefs for July 16 through July 22
In-Person Classes Return to Castle Hill Following its success with virtual classes this summer, Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill is reintroducing in-person instruction, starting in August. Classes […]
ARCHITECTURE
Nauset Students Recognized by Cape Cod Modern House Trust
Winning design projects show college-level sophistication
“It is unusual for a high school to have an architecture program,” says Peter McMahon, the founding director of the Cape Cod Modern House Trust (CCMHT) and co-author of Cape […]
GALLERIES
The Art of Anne Lilly Is Kinetic in Any Medium
Her watercolors, like her sculpture, convey motion, freedom, and control
Visiting the Rice Polak Gallery in Provincetown after three months without live art is a surreal experience, from being presented with hand sanitizer and plastic gloves at the door to […]
MOVIES
The Provincetown Film Festival Returns
It’s “reimagined” — shorter, virtual, and at the Wellfleet Drive-in
According to Lisa Viola, artistic director of the Provincetown International Film Festival (PIFF), she and her staff and the Provincetown Film Society’s new CEO, Rachael Brister, were halfway through preparations […]
QUEER LIT
Resurrecting Hervé Guibert’s Invisible Ink
A newly translated collection of stories traces the fabled French writer’s brief career
In the introduction to Written in Invisible Ink: Selected Stories, by Hervé Guibert, the late queer literary hero of the AIDS era, translator Jeffrey Zuckerman writes that in French, “invisible […]
Arts Briefs and Listings
Arts Briefs for July 9 through July 15
Show of Eight Women Artists at AMP A group show of eight artists — Dianne Ayott, Midge Battelle, Barbara E. Cohen, Anne Corrsin, Phyllis Ewen, Kathi Robinson Frank, Nancy Rubens, […]
SHORE ROAD
The Cottages at the End of the Continent
NORTH TRURO — The very first time I drove into Provincetown I took the shore road, of course. Right away, I knew I was entering another reality. At first, I […]
GALLERIES
Vicky Tomayko Gives the Forms of Nature an Edge
The printmaker extraordinaire has a joyful new show of work
Down a long, winding dirt road, deep in the woods of South Truro, lies the studio and home of printmaker Vicky Tomayko. She has lived and worked there surrounded by […]
PHASED AND CONFUSED
Local Performers Are in the Dark on Reopening Rules
Towns diverge on indoor and outdoor guidelines
Currently in Massachusetts, you can dine indoors at a restaurant, you can attend church and even sing there, but you’re still not officially permitted to attend an outdoor performance of […]
BOOK REVIEW
In Why Fish Don’t Exist, Lulu Miller Finds Truth in Taxonomy
Reflecting on the obsessions of a Stanford scientist, she heals herself
Lulu Miller calls David Starr Jordan, the protagonist of her book Why Fish Don’t Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life, “David.” Born in the […]
