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 […]