Stare into Susan Bee’s Eye of the Storm, a painting prominently displayed at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum, and you’ll observe bundles of tightly knit red, white, and blue […]
SCULPTURE
Ellen LeBow Begins Again in Bas-Relief
The Wellfleet artist shapes a personal bestiary in clay
Over decades of artmaking, Ellen LeBow has forged her own path through stages and styles, figurative rather than abstract. The luminous scratchboard drawings she shows at Rice Polak Gallery in […]
ARTISTS
Painting in the Key of Light
Mary Giammarino’s Vermont sojourns pick up the light she found in Provincetown
In the cold, short days of winter and early spring, when painting outdoors is practically impossible here, Mary Giammarino, a plein air painter, takes a counterintuitive route as she awaits […]
BOOKS
Nick Flynn Searches for Lost Time
In Low, penetrating lyrics explore avenues of collaboration
Nick Flynn’s Low, his sixth volume of poems, is perfectly tuned to winter’s meditative months. Published in November by Graywolf Press, the collection consists of poems of varying lengths that […]
BOOKS
In ‘How to Live,’ Kelle Groom Investigates the Meaning of Home
A Provincetown poet’s new memoir is an odyssey toward compassion
The moment Kelle Groom opens the gray door to her second-floor Brewster Street apartment, a hold-onto-your-hats breeze marking the change in seasons sneaks through. Poetry collections by Nick Flynn, Marie […]
PHOTOGRAPHY
Images That Capture What Is Almost Lost
Susan Mikula’s work illuminates moments just as they slip away
“I was raised in a family that loved art,” says photographer Susan Mikula. “When somebody opens that door and does not say, ‘Don’t go through it,’ that makes all the […]
ARTISTS
A Painter Works From the Edge of Combustion
Dakota X turns muscle cars on rugged landscapes into objects of veneration
Dakota X ran a house painting business in Provincetown in the 1990s to support an artistic career. Back then, Dakota went by the name Deborah Martin, lived in town with […]
ART HISTORIES
Provincetown’s Gallery Structure Is Challenged
Recent closings are a reminder of the art scene’s storied past and uncertain future
After 35 years in business, Albert Merola and Jim Balla announced last month that their gallery at 424 Commercial St. in Provincetown’s East End will not reopen for the 2023 […]
A GIFT OF ART
Helen Frankenthaler’s Provincetown
Five works by the abstract master — the first in PAAM’s collection — are featured in an exhibition of recent acquisitions
Helen Frankenthaler’s Provincetown years were peppered with painting and parenting, swimming and socializing. “My sister Jeannie and I lived with Helen and our father, Robert Motherwell, for a decade of […]
HOT SHOTS
Bobby Miller’s Decisive Moments
45 years of a fabulous life behind the lens, on view at AMP Gallery
It happened one evening at Studio 54: Halston entered the legendary nightclub and was about to check his coat and fur hat. Ten feet away, Bobby Miller spotted his prey […]
INNER VISION
Liz Dexheimer Embraces ‘Atmospheric Conditions’
At Rice Polak, an artist’s abstract paintings create a meditative space
It isn’t easy finding Liz Dexheimer’s studio if you haven’t been there before. Cellphone reception is spotty in this remote area of Connecticut, and even with detailed directions its gray […]
HELPING HANDS
Lauren Ewing Explores the Possibilities of the Human Hand
The artist shows two suites of works finger-painted with carbon black soot
Lauren Ewing is wearing a narrow pin that she designed and fabricated. In lower case, it reads “everything speaks.” “My art is all about the world that we live in, […]
RETROSPECTIVE
A Maverick Artist’s Many Faces
Provincetown celebrates Philip C. Malicoat with paired exhibitions
Moisture, fog, the piney essence of forest and dunes — to commune with these in a Philip Malicoat landscape or seascape is to experience that certain slant of light when […]
FRAMING THE NEWS
Mira Schor and the Art of Misrepresentation
In a FAWC talk, she explores the role of politics in artists’ work
“This is not political,” the painting proclaims. Its flowing script, on an orangey background, is surrounded by a rectangular black frame, anchored by a vertical post. At first glance, the […]
TALKS
Lili Taylor on the Craft of Empathy
A star of film and television turns the lens on herself
Provincetown first welcomed critically acclaimed actor Lili Taylor, best known for her work in independent films and on TV in Six Feet Under and American Crime, in the 1990s, when […]
