Inside his studio gallery tucked into Provincetown’s Whalers Wharf, artist Gaston Lacombe is embellishing a tree. Not a Christmas tree, but a tree painted on a large panel in bright […]
ICONOGRAPHY
Provincetown’s Wharves as Motif
Where artists as well as fishermen embarked on risky ventures
The wharf in all its stages — from bustling workplace to burnt timbers — has seen generations of artists setting up easels to capture the arrival and departure of schooners […]
ART AND POLITICS
With Anthems and Auctions, Artists Confront the Political Moment
There’s hope, but also a sense that ‘the work’s not going to be done in November’
This election season had Jeff Zinn “burning up” with an idea to write a futuristic drama about the stakes of this year’s vote. “In a way, I wrote it for […]
WOMEN’S WEEK
Trump (Mary, not Donald) Is Coming to Town
The former president’s estranged niece wants to tell you about the danger we’re in
Mary Trump has been coming to Provincetown since she was a six-year-old at Cape Cod Sea Camps in Brewster. In the early 2000s, she briefly owned Kensington Gardens, then a […]
RETROSPECTIVE
A Forgotten Artist Comes to Life
Hans Hofmann deemed Mary Rogers’s work ‘outstanding’
Provincetown, the 1950s: Billie Holiday and Barbra Streisand are booked at the Atlantic House. Norman Mailer and Kurt Vonnegut are meeting for cocktails. And Abstract Expressionist Hans Hofmann, considered one […]
BOOK FESTIVAL
The Way We Teach Ourselves to See
Vinson Cunningham’s novel is set in Obama’s campaign for president
While New Yorker theater critic Vinson Cunningham’s Great Expectations is an autobiographical novel based on his experiences as a young staffer on Barack Obama’s first presidential run, it is not […]
THE STROLL
Provincetown, Friday Night
Seen and heard on the weekly gallery walk
Cortile Gallery (230 Commercial St.) It’s been 24 hours since the Carnival parade ended, and Provincetown is still looking for a street party. Across from the Cortile Gallery, a Dixieland […]
BOOKS
Three Friends From College, in Provincetown
A Novel Summer is the author’s fourth title set on Commercial Street
Summertime: the livin’ is easy, and maybe the reading should be, too. Dipping into Jamie Brenner’s new novel is like massaging your soles in the sand while anticipating that first […]
THEATER
Vaguely Creepy Things
At WHAT, Smart asks why one would choose machines as caregivers
It’s so annoying, isn’t it? Aging parents, needing help, expecting you to just drop everything and take care of them when you’ve got so much going on. What’s an American […]
ICONOGRAPHY
The Restaurant Sign That’s a Magnet for Artists
The neon lobster may say ‘P’town’ louder than any other landmark
It happens from time to time: Tim McNulty, the owner and executive chef at the Lobster Pot in downtown Provincetown, will step outside and find an artist peering up at […]
