One spring morning, my wife, Valerie, found a column in the San Francisco paper about Weed, Calif., which was getting ready to capitalize on its merchantable name. I e-mailed my […]
Arts & Minds
Celebrating the creative and sometimes quirky culture of the Outer Cape.
Browse all Arts & Minds stories below or dive into a topic:
NAVIGATING BY THE STARS
Landing in the Light of Libra
Let yourself be awash in the post-equinoctial glow
Now that fall has arrived, the light looks like liquid gold. There is a scientific explanation for this, of course, involving the tilt of the Earth’s axis and the increasing […]
Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for Sept 23 through Sept 29
Farm Pop-Up With Hinton and Lapointe Farm Projects presents “Menagerie,” a pop-up show by artists and friends Megan Hinton and Lyne Lapointe, at The Barn, 96 Castle Road in Truro, […]
LISTINGS
The Week Ahead in Provincetown Drag
Crown & Anchor Uptown Girls, “Illusions,” Sat. at 6 p.m., $39 Dina Martina, “Chariots of Failure,” Sat. at 7:30 p.m., $44 Pilgrim House Paige Turner, “Joy Ride,” Fri.-Sat. at 7:30 […]
ART HISTORY
Vernon Smith Returns to Provincetown
Bakker Gallery shows the late artist’s batiks, metalwork, and woodwork
“It’s the sensibility that people relate to — the design. It’s very clever,” says Jim Bakker, unfolding some of Vernon Smith’s famed batiks — fabrics dyed with a wax-resist method […]
WRITERS
Francine Prose Reads Your Amazon Reviews
Her new novel, The Vixen, is a comedy about the Rosenbergs
Simon Putnam, the young protagonist of Francine Prose’s newest novel, The Vixen, is still figuring out who he is. Fresh out of Harvard, having studied folklore and mythology, he has […]
THEATER
The Unsinkable Tennessee Williams Fest Returns
With a theme of censorship, shows explore forbidden desire and expression
Putting on a festival of live theater — both indoors and outdoors — while the pandemic continues to rage is a risky and frustrating process. Yet that’s exactly what the […]
GALLERIES
Room 68 Sets Up Shop in Wellfleet
Works by Katrine Hildebrandt and Tim McCool are on view
Brent Refsland and Eric Portnoy, who own Room 68 in Provincetown, and now in Wellfleet, too, are, in some ways, spur-of-the-moment people. Their Provincetown gallery started as a pop up. […]
MUSICIANS
Daniel Shevlin Shows His Versatility
The cellist from Well-Strung goes solo
Well-Strung, a string quartet known for its pop covers and hunky members, was founded in 2012 by second violinist Chris Marchant and producer Mark Cortale. Since the pandemic, with group […]
Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for Sept 16 through Sept 22
Cross-Country Art Berta Walker Gallery presents “Learning/Medium/Opportunity,” an online exhibit of works by Laura Shabott’s and Alana Barrett’s students from across the country. It opens Saturday, Sept. 18 and runs […]
PHOTOGRAPHY
Zach Oren Gives Visibility to a Trans Nation
With a clear eye and open heart, he captures the ‘Ides of Gender’
Zach Oren is not cagey about who he is. Even though there’s little biographical information available about him online, he’s forthright in explaining how he got to be the person […]
MUSEUMS
Walking Through — and on — History
A look at “cARTography” at the Cape Cod Museum of Art
What happens when you put maps in an art museum? First, one starts looking at them as art. A 1647 map depicting New England and New Netherland, for example, has […]
BOOK REVIEW
Meg Lowman’s View From the Treetops
Her newest memoir reflects on adventures in advocacy and science
By now, American field biologist Meg Lowman deserves to be a household name. In the 1980s, Lowman — sometimes known as “Canopy Meg” — pioneered the use of spelunking equipment […]
CARTOON CAPTION CONTEST: THE WINNERS
If Gulls Could Talk
First Prize: “It’s their mating season.” —Alexis Jetter, Thetford Center, Vt. Second Prize: “Look for the ones with the open sunroofs.” —Valerie Daniels, Wellfleet. Third Prize: “I told you […]
CHANGING HANDS
Buyer Is Found for Provincetown Bookshop
Barbara Clarke hopes to open in a new location in summer 2022
It didn’t take Barbara Clarke long to decide she wanted to buy the Provincetown Bookshop. The store has been a beloved fixture in the lives of Clarke and her two […]
