In 2022, Julie Smith had a skiing accident in Telluride, Colo. that shattered her right arm. “It was horrible,” she says. “But at the time, I had this great studio […]
Art
PUBLIC ART
Holding Space Together
LaRissa Rogers honors the legacy of a 17th-century Black woman in Boston’s North End
Zipporah Potter Atkins was the first Black woman to own a home in Boston. She was born in 1645 to enslaved parents and purchased her house in 1670. LaRissa Rogers, […]
WOOD WORK
Everything in Its Right Place
Duncan Johnson’s retrospective tells the story of an artist and engineer
Duncan Johnson grew up near a dump in Rockport — “a makeshift playground,” he says — where he’d scavenge for treasures. After graduating from the Pratt Institute in 1987, where […]
COMICS
Jacques Fromage: The Kibbutz
UNFATHOMABLE
What the Ocean Teaches
Mark Brennan’s new works capture the immaterial and incomprehensible
Mark Brennan’s studio, a small room down a deep flight of stairs in the basement of his house in Wellfleet, is illuminated by two small windows high on the wall. […]
DESIGN
More Than a T-Shirt
The art of Provincetown’s Swim for Life
The Swim for Life, founded in 1988 by artist Jay Critchley and dancer Walter McLean, has turned into an annual event to raise money for local health services and celebrate […]
THE SALLY PROJECT
Widening the Circle at the Vorse House
A collaborative exhibition celebrates forgotten women
Sasha Chavchavadze and JoAnne McFarland have had art studios in the same Brooklyn building since 1990. Several years ago, they met and began discussing their shared experiences and interests. They […]
MIXED MEDIA
Les Seifer Paints America as a Scary Place
Fraught narratives that teeter between abstraction and representation
In The Upper Hand, a recent painting by Les Seifer, a lion prowls near a kneeling man who is preparing to shoot a rifle. The man, however, is not aiming […]
PLASTIC ARTS
Tradition and Trash
Duke Riley draws a line from historical maritime art to our current ecological crisis
At first glance, the vessels in a vitrine at the Cahoon Museum of American Art look like relics of the 19th-century whaling industry: their mottled surfaces resemble bone, and they’re […]
THE STROLL
Provincetown, Friday Night
Seen and heard on the weekly gallery walk
William Scott Gallery (439 Commercial St.) In the back room of the William Scott Gallery, Eila Masur is surrounded by a series of paintings by Christopher Sousa: drooling, snarling, jeering […]
ARTISTE
Jaques Fromage: Flippers
ARTISTS
On a Magical Mystery Tour for Two
Tabitha Vevers and Daniel Ranalli find common ground in life and art
Tabitha Vevers and Daniel Ranalli remember talking to each other 25 years ago at Long Point Gallery, the now-gone artist-run space on the top floor at 494 Commercial St. in […]
CREATIVE FREEDOM
Framing Art’s Political Imperative
A dialogue explores queer power in the ‘art of war’ against authoritarianism
The mood in the packed room was sober, but not without humor. The crowd at Stanley — the new Twenty Summers space in the East End — was there to […]
COMICS
Georgie and Barnacle: A Gathering of Georges
SELF-PORTRAITS
Anna Poor’s Ceramics Are Painfully Funny
Sculptures of animals in distress carry the weight of human suffering
Anna Poor’s Truro studio, nestled amid scrub pines and tall grass, has an atmosphere of simplicity and unvarnished beauty. Inside, the studio is almost fully occupied by a large table […]
