Anyone who’s spent time out on the tidal flats of Cape Cod Bay can attest to their allure. Stretching a mile or more at low tide, they can feel like […]
IN THE STUDIO
The Complete Works of Bert Yarborough
A look inside his overflowing, colorful Truro workspace
From the outside, Bert Yarborough’s Truro studio, located in an industrial complex, doesn’t look like much. It is housed in a row of identical rented units, each with a windowless […]
ARTISTS
Frank Milby: Friend and Mentor
He and Katrina Walker share a retrospective at the Commons
Katrina Walker first met Frank Milby in 1983 at Provincetown’s Café Edwige, now closed, where Milby’s wife, Karen, worked. “Frank came up to our table,” recalls Walker. “He looked at […]
WELLFLEET HISTORY
Mike Parlante, the Collector, Walks in Frank James’s Steps
‘There’s stuff to be found if you keep your eyes down,’ he says
If you’re looking for treasure, Mike Parlante has some advice for you: “Look down.” That’s how he found the majority of the Native American artifacts currently on display at the […]
IN THE STUDIO
Salvatore Del Deo: Routine and Ritual
A student of Hensche and Dickinson embodies their practices
Salvatore Del Deo first came to Provincetown in 1946 to study painting with Henry Hensche. “When I drove to the Cape the first time, it took six hours from Providence,” […]
MUSICIANS
Midge Ure Never Left
The former Ultravox frontman is still fronting
The name on the screen for our Zoom call says “James Ure.” But Ure is better known as Midge, a phonetic reversal of the name Jim. The nickname was originally […]
ARTISTS
Turning Old Clothes into New Fossils
Erin Woodbrey Explores the Nature of Time
Erin Woodbrey’s Orleans studio overlooks her garden, now full of late-season vegetables and flowers. The garden provides food, inspiration, and the natural dyes that Woodbrey uses for her prints. Woodbrey […]
ARTISTS
Nancy Bowen Makes Intergenerational Amends
Through her installation, the Salem witch trials reverberate
Walking through Spectral Evidence, Nancy Bowen’s installation at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum, is humorously odd and gravely unsettling in equal measure. Twenty squat grave markers with wings and […]
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 […]
ARTISTS
Judy Pfaff Loves Surprises
Sculptures and works on paper that are beautifully unpredictable
Judy Pfaff is home after returning from Sweden two nights before. “I’m calling from Tivoli, N.Y., trying to get used to what time it is now,” she says brightly. If […]
MUSIC
Bosq: From Cape Cod to Colombia and Back
Ben Woods, a.k.a. Bosq, brings his beats to Twenty Summers
Music producer, DJ, and Brewster native Ben Woods’s song “Can’t Seem to Hide” has close to three million streams on Spotify. With warm vocals by Megan Doherty and choppy guitar […]
ARTISTS
Dina Brodsky Finds Her Scale
Her tondo paintings are exquisite Cape glimpses
“There are internal painters, and there are external painters. I’m very definitely external,” says Dina Brodsky from Falmouth, where she’s on vacation from New York City. “I’m interested in the […]
ARTISTS
Paul Wirhun Is the Eggman
A Ukrainian craft tradition inspires mosaic-like pieces
“Eggman” is how Paul Wirhun signs all his emails. It’s also the name that’s displayed on his screen during a recent Zoom call from Jersey City, N.J., where he maintains […]
ARTISTS
Willie Little, the Alchemist
His oxidized paintings are encrusted with meaning
“I have always been moved by the structures of home,” says artist Willie Little, who grew up in North Carolina. “The metal tobacco barns, regular barns, things that are just […]
ARTISTS
Blair Thornley’s Emotional Clearinghouse
Theatrical paintings of East and West Coast banality
“What humans do on the Earth is fascinating to me,” says artist Blair Thornley from her home in San Diego. Her paintings feel theatrical — outdoor stage sets populated by […]
