Robert Shreefter is learning to lose the storyline in his printmaking. Until recently, he says, he didn’t allow himself that. “If I don’t have something to motivate me, like a […]
REPORTER’S NOTEBOOK
Art’s Discomforting Pleasure
The Ukrainian band DakhaBrakha played at Payomet in Truro last Tuesday, challenging the audience with its insistent message about the war in their native country. At one point, golden-hour sunlight […]
FLUCTUATION
Betty Carroll Fuller’s Wobbling, Quivering Grid
Mining memory, music, and poetry to create a new body of abstract drawings
During the pandemic lockdown, Betty Carroll Fuller spent a lot of time alone in her Falmouth home and studio. It coincided with her recovery from a rare form of cancer, […]
DESIGN
Creating Works That ‘Take the Place of Things’
How two Outer Cape logos have settled into our visual vocabularies
The Nike swoosh; McDonald’s golden arches; the Macintosh apple. These designs are deeply ingrained in our visual vocabularies, recognized in a space where image and commerce mingle. “Logos take the […]
HANDIWORK
Stitching Together a Sustainable Approach to Fashion
Repairing worn garments with style is Evelina Kirgan’s calling
PROVINCETOWN — There is one thing Evelina Kirgan cannot forget from her years as an assistant designer at Ralph Lauren. It’s the time she ordered 50,000 yards of the wrong […]
BACK DOOR ART
A Funny, Subversive Show Opens at PAAM
Zehra Khan reimagines art history with bedsheets, glue guns, and Sharpies
To reach Zehra Khan’s zany show at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum, one must walk through Philip Malicoat’s impressive exhibition of somber, formally astute paintings, rendered in a narrow […]
CONTEMPORARY ART
Wendy White Puts Painting in Its Place
‘Sunset Drift’ challenges painting’s revered status in a show both playful and dark
Wendy White wants to know why painting is held in such high esteem compared to other art forms. “I’m a little skeptical about whether all those accolades are fair. It’s […]
COLLABORATION
Finding Fresh Inspiration in Ancient Sources
Ellen LeBow, Mary Gordon, and Suzzy Roche look to the past for creative direction
In the Gospels of Matthew and Mark, Jesus comes upon a fig tree toward the end of a long journey. Hungry, he curses the tree when he finds only leaves, […]
PANDEMIC LOGBOOK
The Webbs Are Navigating Waves of Change
A collaborative photography book charts one couple’s pandemic experience
“I was looking out the window, waiting for words that did not come,” says Rebecca Norris Webb of sequestering herself in Wellfleet early in the pandemic. Outside, her husband, Alex, […]
AESTHETICS
Finding Material Pleasure in the Glitch
Former FAWC fellows respond to instability with inventive and sensuous forms
The densest thing about “Density’s Glitch,” the current show at the Fine Arts Work Center (FAWC), is the accompanying text. Just a page in length, it has some knotty phrases. […]
FOR THE BIRDS
Rethinking Gardens as Havens for Birds
Native plants in settings that mimic nature invite birds and pollinators
If you’ve spent any time on the Outer Cape, you know that birds are a thing. They make the news here, with people calling in their sightings for a weekly […]
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.” […]
LIFE CYCLES
Encounters With Painting in Place
James Everett Stanley situates innocence, threats, and identity on the landscape
“Part of the reason I’m interested in portraiture,” says the painter James Everett Stanley, “is that you can see life’s journey just in somebody’s face, in the weathering, in the […]
COVER ARTIST
Mimi Bois and the Artist Life
A portrait for the Class of 2022
“Ever since I was young, I would draw people,” says Emilia Lane Malicoat Bois (known as Mimi), the young artist who created the cover painting for this year’s graduation section. […]
VANTAGE POINTS
Joel Janowitz Works From the Inside Out
A painter’s landscapes explore the inner act of perception
Strolling down Commercial Street and into the Mary Heaton Vorse house, one is aware of Provincetown Harbor moving in and out of view. It glistens between buildings or stretches out […]
