John Okrent’s first book, This Costly Season: A Crown of Sonnets, was published by Arrowsmith Press in 2021. Okrent is a family doctor who works at the Sea Mar Community […]
Arts & Minds
Celebrating the creative and sometimes quirky culture of the Outer Cape.
Browse all Arts & Minds stories below or dive into a topic:
Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for September 1 through September 8, 2022
Art in Flux at Alden Gallery Abstraction and representation are usually seen as opposite — if not antagonistic — modes of artistic expression. According to Alden Gallery owner Howard Karren, […]
WORKSHOP
Free Jazz Ceramics Class: Variations on a Theme
Jeff Shapiro leads students toward experimentation
Jeff Shapiro likes to break the mold of what ceramics students are typically taught in class. “I’m not particularly interested in teaching technique,” he says. In a recent class at […]
JOURNEYS
Mary Heaton Vorse Is Coming Home
Sculptor Penelope Jencks helps the legendary Provincetown author return to the place she loved the most
More than 50 years after her death, writer and activist Mary Heaton Vorse will be returning to her home in Provincetown’s East End thanks to a sculpture project by Wellfleet […]
MARSHLAND
This Ineffable Thing
Jennifer Moller reflects deeply on one tidal pool
On a snowy day in 2011, Jennifer Moller was on a Wellfleet marsh with her medium-format camera, looking for images. She photographed a singular tidal pool, positioning it at the […]
HOT SHOTS
Bobby Miller’s Decisive Moments
45 years of a fabulous life behind the lens, on view at AMP Gallery
It happened one evening at Studio 54: Halston entered the legendary nightclub and was about to check his coat and fur hat. Ten feet away, Bobby Miller spotted his prey […]
LINE BREAK
Mad Libs Poetry: Pushing the World Away to See It Anew
Alexander DuToit brings Sam Hamill’s heron into the darkroom
This month I asked Alexander DuToit, a senior at Nauset Regional High School, if he’d “Mad Lib” a poem — that is, take an existing poem and swap out everything […]
THE STROLL
Provincetown, Friday Night
Seen and heard on Provincetown’s weekly gallery walk
Woodman/Shimko Gallery, 346 Commercial St. Erin Long is an artist from Sharon. She gazes at a wall of paintings by Danielle Coenen. All are close-up portraits of faces. Long feels […]
Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for August 25 through September 1, 2022
Secrets and Lines at AMZehnder Gallery There’s an elusive quality that connects the work of the three artists featured in a new group show at AMZehnder Gallery in Wellfleet. Gallery […]
GALLERIES
Jack Pierson Celebrates an Artist’s Life
A new show in Provincetown features words as images
A plumber’s son who grew up in Plymouth and made his way to extraordinary success in a variety of media, Jack Pierson always feels a bit defensive about the bona […]
ABSTRACT EXPRESSION
In Jeannie Motherwell’s Work, the Paint Is Moving
Her influences include Cape Cod Bay and the Hubble telescope
The Jeannie Motherwell paintings now on view at the Schoolhouse Gallery through Aug. 31 are a dramatic exploration of three-dimensional space in two dimensions. Experiencing them is like weighing anchor […]
GOSPEL TRUTH
The Blind Boys of Alabama Have a Vision
The celebrated gospel singers believe you can be what you want to be
Eric McKinnie, who is known as Ricky, has been a member of the Blind Boys of Alabama since 1989. But the renowned gospel group launched 50 years before that. Clarence […]
THEATER REVIEW
With Frozen, the Harbor Stage Serves Up Killer Performances
Bryony Lavery’s play explores the aftermath of a senseless murder
Are there crimes so heinous that their perpetrators are beyond redemption? Fritz Lang’s 1930 movie M, starring Peter Lorre as a kindermörder — “child murderer” — ends with doubts about […]
BOOK REVIEW
Everyone Is to Blame, But Blame Is Not the Point
Lindsey J. Palmer explores the shifting landscapes of friendship in Reservations for Six
The ritual of birthday dinners among old friends — the lengthy and indulgent courses, the observations of milestones met, missed, and anticipated — provides the structure of Eastham resident Lindsey […]
THAT’S ITALIAN
Connecting the Dots From Sicily to SpaghettiOs
Ian MacAllen savors the role of red sauce in the making of Italian-Americanism
I want to get this out of the way at the get-go: I was raised on SpaghettiOs, and I loved them. Surely you remember Chef Boyardee with his jaunty toque, […]
