When David Eure plays his violin, its fingerboard dusted with rosin, he’s constructing a masterpiece of texture and inflection. In performance, he says, “Your audience is your canvas, and you’re […]
MEET THE MAKER
The Type That Lasts
On centuries-old presses, David Smith prints like he means it
When David Smith steps hard on the treadle of his Chandler & Price 10-by-15-inch platen press, it begins to churn energetically, like a many-appendaged ocean animal. The press, built in […]
MEET THE MAKERS
What Is Fashion?
Two local designers listen to fabrics and sew clothes that wearers make their own
Jessica Abernethy endeavors to be a good listener — at least, when it’s textiles that are doing the talking. “I always let the fabric talk to me,” she says. In […]
MEET THE MAKERS
What Is Fashion?
Two local designers listen to fabrics and sew clothes that wearers make their own
Jessica Abernethy endeavors to be a good listener — at least, when it’s textiles that are doing the talking. “I always let the fabric talk to me,” she says. In […]
BIG PICTURE
Electric Purple
Diana Horowitz on Brenda Horowitz’s color vocabulary
Diana Horowitz grew up watching her mother, Brenda Horowitz, paint. Their family spent summers in Provincetown, where Brenda had studied with Hans Hofmann and Wolf Kahn. During the year, they […]
TURNING ON A DIME
Wild, Untamed, and Hard to Describe
The Invincible (formerly Incredible) Casuals, reborn, are writing songs and performing again
After a three-decade run, the Incredible Casuals, a Cape Cod rock band described by Rolling Stone as “the Beach Boys meets the Who,” disbanded in 2013. The band had performed […]
WHAT STICKS
Putting the Pieces Together
An exhibition at the Commons celebrates the immediacy of collage
For the past few years, Karen Cappotto and James Ryan, co-founders of the Modern Provincetown Collagists, have mounted an annual exhibition at the Commons on Bradford Street celebrating collage as […]
HER STORY
Clara Schumann’s Romances
A classical concert of ‘mavericks’ brings a hidden master to light
The obituary of Clara Schumann, who died on May 20, 1896 at age 76, was published on June 1 of that year in The Musical Times and Singing-Class Circular. The […]
DREAM STATE
Poetry in Motion
Monique Brunet-Weinmann’s new book, Exil, recounts anxious times and a migration story
As a child, reared close to the Atlantic Ocean in Brittany, the westernmost region of France, Monique Brunet-Weinmann excelled at reciting poetry from memory. “Pretty soon,” she says, “I started […]
MUSIC FOR LIVING
When Home Is Where the Heart Is
Cara Brindisi, a singer-songwriter and music therapist, finds a place of her own
Two years ago, Cara Brindisi went into her blind audition for Season 22 of The Voice with a plan: to join Blake Shelton’s team if the country star turned his […]
One Strong Table
Peter McMahon’s design can be as fancy or plain as its materials make it
Peter McMahon is not going to brag about his tables. They are what he calls “a Flintstones solution” to a practical problem. After McMahon founded the Cape Cod Modern House […]
The Tire Swing Grows Up
Jeff Soderbergh’s ring chair is made of history
The wood floors of Jeff Soderbergh’s furniture workshop in Portsmouth, R.I. were salvaged from the box cars of old freight trains. The beams that support the building, which sits right […]
TRADITIONS
A Last Minute Pisanki Party
Sometimes, putting your eggs in one basket is just fine
You don’t have to spend hours preparing for an Easter egg decorating party. On a rainy Saturday morning before the holiday weekend, Agata Storer puts 24 white-shelled eggs on to […]
IN THE MIDS
Demons on the Hour
Sara Martin is a death tourist, a mockumentarian, and a poet
Sara Martin takes a seat in the courtyard at the Fine Arts Work Center and turns her face toward the sun. It’s just past 2 p.m. “Two p.m. is a […]
A PLACE FOR EVERYTHING
Sean Gardner’s Miniature Maximalism
In a small Provincetown apartment, the more you look, the more you see
Sean Gardner notices that a visitor is transfixed by the unfocused stare of a crayon drawing of Bob Dylan on the wall of the West End apartment he shares with […]
