There’s an obsessiveness to the art of Siân Robertson — multiple objects are organized, following rules and patterns. But an opposite impulse is also manifest — a relentless creativity. It’s […]
INDIE SCREEN
Give Me Your Outsiders, Your Refugees, Your Rogues
From Vietnam to Dorset to Hollywood in your home theater
It’s a sign of the times that in more and more movies with LGBTQ main characters, their queerness is just one of the things that define them. Monsoon, about a […]
INDIE SCREEN
Looking Back, at 1968, to the Future
Aaron Sorkin resurrects The Trial of the Chicago 7
It might have been called Vietnam, Mon Amour. Those of us who lived through the Vietnam War era and its political upheaval — government lies and repression, youth rebellion and […]
PUBLISHING
Provincetown Arts Regroups and Moves Forward
A gala and auction celebrate its founder’s legacy
When Christopher Busa died suddenly at age 73 on June 20, of a congenital heart defect that had gone undetected, it was two days before the scheduled printing of the […]
NEIGHBORS
Grace Freundlich Is Healing in Truro
Her memoir, Enough of All That, turns a troubled past into art
Grace Freundlich is a survivor in our midst. Retired and now 80, she lives in Truro year-round and counts it as a blessing. She has written a memoir of her […]
POTPOURRI
‘Art From the Heart,’ Fund-raiser for HOW
Cigar-box challenge produces dazzling array
Provincetown’s Jim Broussard had the idea of getting artists to paint cigar boxes as a fund-raising effort, which he’s dubbed “Art From the Heart.” He hopes to make it an […]
INDIE SCREEN
O Say Can You Stream?
Three gems of the new movie landscape
These days, new films are difficult to track. Miranda July’s Kajillionaire, for example, premiered at Sundance in January, then opened in theaters on Sept. 25, but not locally on the […]
GALLERIES
An Exhibit Makes Waves in Provincetown
Protest art gets a showcase at a time of crisis
Political protest art is not new, as anyone who has seen Delacroix’s Liberty Leading the People, about an 1830 anti-royalist uprising in France, or Picasso’s Guernica, depicting the merciless bombing […]
AN APPRECIATION
Assemblage Artist Varujan Boghosian, 94, Was a Magician and Poet
He inspired peers and art lovers with ‘wisdom through humor’
PROVINCETOWN — In his poem “Chariot,” Stanley Kunitz, a founder of the Fine Arts Work Center, wrote of Varujan Boghosian, “In my friend’s studio, where curiosity runs the shop, and […]
BENEFIT AUCTIONS
Ptown Gallery Stroll Launches ‘Hope Project’
Display of hope-filled artwork starts Friday
The Ptown Gallery Stroll, a nonprofit organization of more than 30 art galleries in Provincetown, was formed in the spring in response to the Covid-19 pandemic and the threat it […]
THEATER
Tennessee Williams Fest Stays Live and Distant for 2020
The Municipal Abbatoir to be performed at parking lot drive-in
The view from the Grace Hall parking lot #3 of the dune and water tower above it would not be part of a Provincetown promotional flyer. But the sky was […]
INDIE SCREEN
Marco Calvani Finds a Haven in Provincetown
The Italian filmmaker is driven by social injustice
As residencies go, Marco Calvani’s time in Provincetown has been productive and reflective. It culminated with a fund-raiser at the Mary Heaton Vorse House on Thursday, Sept. 17, presented by […]
THEATER OF ART
Kahn & Selesnick’s Performance of a Lifetime
A PAAM show documents their work on the Outer Cape
The art of Kahn & Selesnick — otherwise known as Nicholas Kahn and Richard Selesnick, who met at Washington University in St. Louis in the ’80s, moved to the Cape […]
A LIFE IN ART
For Bailey Bob Bailey, You Are What You Create
Fashioning oneself as an artist can be a lifelong endeavor
“A year ago, I became an orphan,” says Bailey Bob Bailey on the back deck of his Truro home. “Dad died on Aug. 25, 2019. He was 89. Mom had […]
INDIE SCREEN
Meditations on Manhood, Past and Present
Through the lens of Judd Apatow and Kelly Reichardt, darkly
We live in an era in which adolescent fantasies of masculinity are being lived out in a grotesque and outsized way. Even more than Bush fils, Donald Trump seems caught […]
