The air felt like May, but the water said it would rather be March. They negotiated through a fog that rose from the moors and burned off in my lungs. […]
Arts & Minds
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Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for July 3, 2025 through July 10, 2025
An Artistic Dialogue at Seashore Point Gallery Anne Flash and John Koch met in a class at Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill around 10 years ago. The […]
DANCE
The Motion of Erosion
Choreographer Michael Spencer Phillips makes the sand a stage
In the golden evening light at Race Point Beach, an audience assembled on towels and blankets. Nearby, a group of dancers in white swayed gently back and forth, stretching and […]
SPEECHLESS
The Telling Sound of Silence
In his autobiographical play, It Goes Without Saying, mime Bill Bowers says a lot
In the quiet valley town of Missoula, Mont., sprawled at the feet of five mountain ranges, Bill Bowers’s parents — both descended from generations of ranchers and farmers — did […]
ARTISTS
The Influence of Atmosphere
Linda Reedy’s inspirations include Edwin Dickinson’s grays and Provincetown’s dunes
Linda Reedy grew up in Connecticut and Boston and first came to Provincetown when she was seven. For her parents, it was the nearest far-away place. The briny breezes, scrub-pine […]
ARTIFICE
Hovering Between Nature and Culture
The artists in FAWC’s group exhibition have an elusive grasp on the natural world
Nature isn’t always natural, suggests the Fine Arts Work Center’s summer exhibition, “To Move a Mountain.” Coady Brown, an artist who curated the work by nine former FAWC fellows, writes […]
PORTUGUESE FESTIVAL
Singing With Love
Fadista Celia Maria returns to Provincetown Town Hall for an increasingly rare ritual
At her home in South Dartmouth, Celia Maria recalls the fado singers who have inspired her. She opens the doors to her media center to reveal hundreds of LPs, 45s, […]
THE STROLL
Provincetown, Friday Night
Seen and heard on the weekly gallery stroll
On Center Gallery (352 Commercial St.) Nathaniel Meyer grew up in Maine near the Schoodic Peninsula of Acadia National Park. That’s where, as a child toting a French easel, he […]
Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for June 26, 2025 through July 3, 2025
Art, Music, and Food for a Cause Art for the Border, an Outer Cape collective of artists and activists, will host an art giveaway and Latin dance party at the […]
CROSSWORD #64
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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 […]
