The guitarist Hiroya Tsukamoto tells a story. About four years ago, in Hamden, Conn., he made a friend, a professor at Quinnipiac University. “He took me to this mountain,” says […]
Arts & Minds
Celebrating the creative and sometimes quirky culture of the Outer Cape.
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LINE AND COLOR
Cynthia Packard Wages War to Find the Right Lines
The artist wants her paintings to have ‘a reason to survive’
Cynthia Packard says she dances with her paintings. It must be a tango or flamenco; it’s not a waltz. Her intensely physical approach to painting is intuitive, abrupt, sure, and […]
LINE BREAK
Mad Libs Poetry: To Spring on Cape Cod
Jessica Smart brings Mary Oliver home with peepers, lilacs, and whales
Mary Oliver’s voice, vision, and words are beloved around the world and uniquely tied to Provincetown, where she lived for many decades. Her poems have introduced countless readers to ponds, […]
BOOK REVIEW
A Place of Quiet Beauty Reveals Its Lively Past
Sharon Dunn combines poetry and history in writing about Bound Brook Island
In the same week that we came to live in a cottage halfway between Lombard and Paradise hollows, on the Wellfleet-Truro line, Christopher and I took a walk on Bound […]
QUEER ‘I’
The View From Five-Foot-Five
At Tea Dance, finding the upside of being short
I’m five-foot-five, and I’m never as aware of this fact as when I’m at Tea Dance. Before I say more, I want to clear up a misunderstanding: I like being […]
Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for June 30 through July 6, 2022
12-Person Show at AMP Works by Barbara E. Cohen and Jay Critchley occupy the same wall at Art Market Provincetown (432 Commercial St.) right now. Cohen’s four paintings depicting a […]
LONGING
A Journey Back to Portugal With Sonia Bettencourt
The award-winning fadista channels heartbreak, joy, and her home country in song
PROVINCETOWN — At the start of each performance, Sonia Bettencourt, dressed to the nines, takes center stage with a warm smile. But as soon as she opens her mouth, she […]
WRITING LIFE
Frank X. Gaspar Returns to the Space of His Imagination
The Provincetown-born writer is here for this year’s Portuguese Festival
“There’s all this beauty around you,” Frank X. Gaspar says of the Provincetown he grew up in in the 1950s and ’60s. “Not a gentle beauty but a rugged beauty.” […]
PEOPLE WATCHING
Daphne Confar Makes Stories Out of Strangers
Finding the little things, and the ones that are lovable
Amid the hustle and bustle of Commercial Street, we all watch other people. Grabbing what we can from someone’s bright yellow shirt, leather chaps, or bald spot, we invent a […]
SKIN AND INK
Welcome to Tattoo Summer Camp
In a Provincetown parlor, individualists share their styles
PROVINCETOWN — Walk down Commercial Street in the summer and you’ll feel the buzz. Party conversations linger. Kids splash on the shore. New waiters rush to tables. Dogs wrestle. Drag […]
THEATER REVIEW
The Harbor Stage Disinters Sam Shepard’s ‘Buried Child’
Catch a modern classic about a family’s painful decline
When Buried Child was first performed in 1978 in San Francisco and New York, its hipster playwright, Sam Shepard, was a fixture of the downtown arts scene, best known for […]
Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for June 23 through June 29, 2022
The 1950s at Bakker Gallery The 1950s, so often depicted as an era of cheery conservatism, were radical times in the world of painting. A generation of painters was freed […]
CROSSWORD #33
Diploma-cy
RETROSPECTIVE
A Maverick Artist’s Many Faces
Provincetown celebrates Philip C. Malicoat with paired exhibitions
Moisture, fog, the piney essence of forest and dunes — to commune with these in a Philip Malicoat landscape or seascape is to experience that certain slant of light when […]
CANVASES
Behind the Scenes With Malicoat’s Larger Works
A conservator copes with Cape Cod’s environment and with the paint itself
Few viewers are conscious of what goes on behind the scenes to keep a museum’s collection not just intact but resistant to the unrelenting effects of time. But conservator and […]
