Summertime: the livin’ is easy, and maybe the reading should be, too. Dipping into Jamie Brenner’s new novel is like massaging your soles in the sand while anticipating that first […]
Arts & Minds
Celebrating the creative and sometimes quirky culture of the Outer Cape.
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SAND AND ASPHALT
Arthur Nichols’s Panoramic Vision
Looking closely at nature, a photographer finds abstract minimalism
Eastham photographer Arthur Nichols was standing on a causeway at the edge of Onota Lake in Pittsfield during a wet snowstorm in late March 1972. He was looking at trees. […]
THE STROLL
Wellfleet, Saturday Night
Seen and heard on the weekly gallery walk
AMZehnder Gallery (25 Bank St. #3) At AMZehnder Gallery, Provincetown-based artist Pete Hocking, whose work is also currently hanging on the walls, takes a long moment to consider Patte Ormsby’s […]
Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for July 18, 2024 through July 25, 2024
Chara Percussion Ensemble Explores ‘Uncharted’ Sounds The Chara Percussion Ensemble is aptly named. A Greek word meaning “finding joy despite circumstance,” chara is visible on the musicians’ faces whenever they […]
CROSSWORD #54
Independent Parts
PAINTING
Paul Kelly’s Cubist Constructions of a Town Gone Wild
The artist paints from his imagination, where elaborate patterns take hold
Provincetown artist Paul Kelly begins to work on a new painting by creating architectural graphite sketches. There is a certainty to Kelly’s sketches — a commitment to contrast and shape. […]
GIVE/TAKE
The Living Sounds of Ukraine
At Payomet, DakhaBrakha deals in shades of memory and persistence
There’s a game elementary students used to play, usually in P.E. class, stretched out on the grass or the polished wood of the gym floor. It involved a rainbow parachute, […]
DRAG DESK
Jinkx Monsoon Is Going for It
The two-time winner of Drag Race returns to Provincetown, this time, unapologetically as herself
Since Jinkx Monsoon was last in Provincetown for Halloween 2022, she’s achieved many firsts for drag artists and transgender performers: she’s been featured in a record-breaking Broadway-musical run, starred in […]
ARTISTS
The Unfurling of a Creative Vision
Sam Feinstein’s development from a Hofmann student to a painter of sublime abstractions
The Sam Feinstein exhibition at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum charts his lifelong commitment to abstraction and color. The paintings span his early years in Provincetown as a student […]
THEATER
Queercore Takes a Bow on the Provincetown Stage
Peregrine Theatre returns with Hedwig and the Angry Inch
When Hedwig and the Angry Inch premiered in 1998 at the small Jane Street Theatre in Manhattan’s West Village, the transgender rights movement had little of its current visibility or […]
POT PRODUCTION
‘Reefer Madness,’ the Musical, Plays for Laughs and Makes a Point
Confronting the question, ‘What is public enemy number one?’
The concerned citizens file onto the stage: 12 adult actors dressed as well-to-do parents and respectable high school students. One couple is holding hands. A girl wears the sash of […]
THEATER
A Warning Against Fascism Returns to the Stage
'It Can’t Happen Here — Again,' adapted from Sinclair Lewis, comes to WHAT on July 19
A theatrical warning about fascism and liberal complacency was performed on 21 stages across the country one week before the national election of 1936. The play was It Can’t Happen […]
Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for July 11, 2024 through July 18, 2024
Aparna Nancherla at Payomet “Maybe she’s born with it — maybe she’s trapped in a societal prison of impossible beauty standards” goes stand-up comic Aparna Nancherla’s riff on that old […]
PHOTOGRAPHY
Portraits of the Artists
Ron Amato’s photographs of Provincetown artists capture a creative community
Nearly everyone who lives in or visits Provincetown knows about its vibrant artistic community. Far fewer know the names and faces of the artists who compose it. “I didn’t know […]
PHOTOGRAPHY
Greater Than Their Parts
In Jefferson Hayman’s ‘pairings,’ framing is as integral as the image itself
Ten apricots, a bunch of grapes, three blueberries, a skull tipped over, a half-empty glass: these subjects would be just as at home on the walls of the Rijksmuseum in […]
