I always associate certain foods with particular holidays and times of year. Christmas dinner was synonymous with lasagna and my grandmother’s chicken and escarole soup. My birthday in October was […]
FAMILY RECIPE
An Eggplant Parm That’s as Good as Mom’s
Take it from Rosalie: peel the eggplant, make your own marinara, and don’t use too much cheese
Saying that your mom’s eggplant parm is your favorite thing to eat is like admitting that the Mona Lisa is your favorite painting. It’s a well-deserved classic, of course, but […]
BENEFIT CONCERT
Music to Help Heal a Broken Land
Providing ‘a sonic environment for reflection and action’ in the wake of disaster
It’s difficult to grasp the massive scale of the earthquakes that struck southeast Turkey and northern Syria last month. More than 53,500 deaths have been confirmed as of this week, […]
AT THE MUSEUM
Margo and Zimiles: Ukrainian Roots Both Subtle and Explicit
Two exhibitions at the Cape Cod Museum of Art reflect the heritage and resilience of the Ukrainian people
DENNIS — The Ukrainian flag — unfamiliar to many before this year but now ubiquitous — is an abstract landscape: a brilliant blue sky above the golden expanse of a […]
FAMILY RECIPE
Biscotti With Love From a Grandma’s Kitchen in Yonkers
A cookie for the holidays and for always
It’s a terrible thing to say about one’s grandmother — especially one’s Italian-American grandmother — but mine was not a great cook. Her specialty was a swamp-like egg drop soup […]
TRADITIONS
Art That Sustains and Perseveres
A new book explores how the Wampanoag connect the spiritual and the material
Most cultural histories of Cape Cod begin with Charles Hawthorne’s establishment of an art school in Provincetown in 1899. But Lee Roscoe knows the story is much older than that. […]
IN THE GALLERIES
It’s the Little Things
’Tis the season — and maybe the zeitgeist — for small-scale works of art
There’s an undeniable wallop of art that fills a wall, a whole room, or even an entire landscape with its presence. But there’s also something captivating about a painting that […]
FUTURE TENSE
The Artist in the Machine
The promise and pitfalls of creating art with artificial intelligence
In his 1868 prose poem Les Chants de Maldoror, the self-styled Comte de Lautrémont described a young man as being as beautiful as the “chance encounter of a sewing machine […]
IN THE GALLERIES
Portrait of the Artist as a Group Show
Megan Hinton explores a different mode of self-expression in ‘Together With’
End-of-season group shows can be an undemanding way for galleries to take a breather after a busy stretch of solo exhibitions and heavy visitor traffic. But for artist and curator […]
VISIONS
Seeing the Invisible
Two photographers reveal hidden realms of light
Photography usually depicts what we see. Sometimes, it also shows us what we can’t. There are hidden realms on either end of the spectrum of light we perceive when we […]
ART THERAPY
Paul Rizzo Is Searching for His Dream House
A new show explores the personal geography of memory
Here is a partial list of Paul Rizzo’s obsessions, in no particular order, based on a visual inventory of the works in progress (all his works are almost always “in […]
KIND OF BLUE
Drawing With Light and Making Magic
Three Provincetown artists take one of the oldest photographic techniques in new directions
When a new medium was unveiled in 1839 that miraculously seemed to fix images from an ever-changing reality onto a permanent surface, the British scientist and polymath Sir John Herschel […]
