Arts & Minds
Celebrating the creative and sometimes quirky culture of the Outer Cape.
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DOG DAYS
Alexis Trice Paints Risk and Reward
In her art, coyotes cry and bivalves glimmer
Alexis Trice lives in New York City, where she was born and raised, but it’s the natural world that has captured her imagination. Her jewel-like, unsettling paintings of dogs (often […]
THEATER
Should I Stay or Should I Go?
An adaptation of a Willa Cather short story explores connections to place and community
The Willa Cather short story that Brenda Withers has adapted as a play is set in a 19th-century Nebraska farm community, but in the Harbor Stage Company’s production of The […]
BOW AND BRUSH
A New Music Series Aims to Bridge Mediums
The Outer Cape Chamber Music Festival begins as a conversation between classical music and visual art
The Outer Cape, weathered and romanced by the Atlantic and bathed in a certain extraordinary light, has long inspired visual artists. Their work is all around us. What would happen, […]
COLOR AND FORM
Laurie Skantzos Teases and Intrigues
Her seemingly simple artworks complicate notions of how a painting occupies space
Canadian artist Laurie Skantzos makes thick plywood constructions with vibrant, painted edges that blur the line between painting and sculpture. She thinks of them as “wall sculptures.” Approaching a piece […]
POETRY
Marie Howe Maps a Spiritual Journey
The poet won the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for her New and Selected Poems
The uncluttered elegance of Marie Howe’s voice has held its power over the 40-plus years she has been publishing poetry. And nowhere is it heard more lovingly than here in […]
BODY HORROR
On the ‘Monstrosity’ of the Human Form
Carmen Maria Machado and Ilana Savdie are drawn to the uncanny
Just before Carmen Maria Machado left for graduate school, she came down with swine flu. The year was 2009: Barack Obama had just started his first term as president, Bitcoin […]
Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for June 19, 2025 through June 26, 2025
Electric Six Still Wants to Take You to a ‘Gay Bar’ It’s a safe bet that when Electric Six plays at Provincetown Town Hall this weekend, the song “Gay […]
FIELD WORK
Painting Out in the Open
Three artists on finding inspiration in the woods or on a coffeeshop patio
It is not uncommon in Provincetown to come across artists with their easels and paints set up along Commercial Street or out in the dunes. Painting en plein air — […]
JAMBALAYA
A Musician Conjures a Story for the Soul
David Eure makes his violin squeal, bark, thump, and sing
When David Eure plays his violin, its fingerboard dusted with rosin, he’s constructing a masterpiece of texture and inflection. In performance, he says, “Your audience is your canvas, and you’re […]
THE DRAG BUG
If You’ve Got It, Flaunt It
Mackenzie takes her act to Lower Cape Pride
Mackenzie Miller, Provincetown’s self-declared “neon hype girl,” was born in the great state of Alaska, in Big Lake, an hour north of Anchorage. There, in the “arctic tundra,” she says, […]
ARTISTS
André van der Wende at the Crossroads
His recent work shows the artist arriving at new solutions
“Crossroads,” the name of André van der Wende’s current exhibition at Wellfleet Preservation Hall, alludes to a creative journey that offers resolution but also a continuous sense of possibility. The […]
FILM FESTIVAL
Murray Bartlett Is at Home Here
The actor is being honored by his adopted community
Murray Bartlett has won or been nominated for more than a dozen acting awards, but the one he’ll receive Saturday hits closest to home. Six years after moving to the […]
FILM FESTIVAL
Making Sense of Miasma
Filmmaker on the Edge Ari Aster specializes in realistic paranoia
Ari Aster, 38, represents a new generation of filmmakers unafraid to plunge into the darkest corners of human experience. He will receive the Filmmaker on the Edge Award at this […]
Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for June 12, 2025 through June 19, 2025
Art That Celebrates Power and Resilience Izzy Berdan, curator of an exhibition at the Provincetown Commons this month commemorating Juneteenth, has strong opinions about “America’s second Independence Day.” The Texas […]
