The 2016 movie Jackie, which stars Natalie Portman as Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and is directed by the Chilean filmmaker Pablo Larraín, was an unexpected gem. It delved into the mind […]
GALLERIES
Chris Firger Gives Cape Landscapes an Early Modern Flair
Inspired by Canadian masters, he makes paintings that ‘jump off the wall’
“The root of a lot of what I do is the Group of Seven,” Chris Firger says, speaking by phone from his Salem studio after a long day’s work preparing […]
SCULPTORS
For Susan Lyman, Art Doesn’t Just Grow on Trees
Her new show is a surreal reflection of the natural world in distress
“I’m not a city person,” says the artist Susan Lyman, chatting in the far East End Provincetown home she designed and built in 1987 with her late husband, Doug Trumbo, […]
PUSH AND PULL
Rejecting ‘Pretty Pictures,’ an Artist Cuts a New Direction
Daniel Wagner slices up and reassembles his own paintings
“I think it grew out of my frustration as a painter,” Daniel Wagner says, looking around at the many canvases lying about his cluttered Provincetown Commons studio. “What do I […]
PRINTING
Vladimir Schuster Aims to Make a Distinct Impression
A master electrician launches a fine art printmaking studio in Provincetown
When we picture artists at work, we typically imagine them creating with their hands — drawing a figure, sculpting in clay. Printmaking brings the mechanical into the mix. That doesn’t […]
INDIE SCREEN
Whose Legacy Is It, Anyway?
Three biographies take the lives of pivotal figures into account
Though he was an African American born into poverty in 1931 in rural Texas, picking cotton as a young child alongside his single mother, Alvin Ailey lived a life of […]
THEATER
A Playwright Explores the Exits in the Game of Life
Spirits will be raised at a benefit reading with Kathleen Turner
In Family Game Night, a new play by Peter Kennedy that will be given a staged reading at town hall on Saturday to benefit the Provincetown Theater, the Mortons are […]
INDIE SCREEN
The Monstrous Cost of Art
Good, bad, or ugly — is it worth it?
Seeing Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa at the Louvre in Paris is a less-than-contemplative experience. The Renaissance painting is housed in the high-ceilinged Salle des États, which is filled with […]
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 […]
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 […]
TIME AND THE TOWN
David Dunlap Is Endlessly Building Provincetown
A reissue of his 2015 book highlights a feast of local color
David W. Dunlap’s Building Provincetown is an ongoing project with a worthy aim: to create a comprehensive history of the town — that is, its residents, year-round and part-time, and […]
GALLERIES
Robert Henry: Still Riffing After All These Years
In a pandemic’s isolation, he finds joy in art
In the fall of 2019, before the Covid lockdown, Robert Henry had a memorable solo show called “Ship of State” at the Cape Cod Museum of Art in Dennis. The […]
ARTISTS
James Balla Paints a Symphony of Color
A Provincetown gallerist circles back to his own art
In the text accompanying James Balla’s Into the blue again, the catalogue for his 2013 show at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum, he wrote, “Good art is always elegant. […]
GALLERIES
The Indelible Life and Landscapes of Brenda Horowitz
At 89, she continues to interpret the Outer Cape in brilliant color
“I’m always working,” Brenda Horowitz says, sitting in her North Truro studio with her right wrist wrapped in a tight bandage, the result of a recent fall. “I don’t stop. […]
THEATER REVIEW
Redemption for an American Holy Warrior
Witnessing Nat Turner in Jerusalem at WHAT
It is said that history is written by the victors, and in the case of the slave rebellion led by Nat Turner in August 1831, a time of rising abolitionist […]
