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 […]
Art
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 […]
ARTISTE
Jacques Fromage: Night Shift
SCALING UP
The New Muralists of MacMillan
Nine artists experiment with going big
The trap sheds at MacMillan Pier are bright with eight newly installed murals. They’re a Provincetown Public Arts Foundation project that Executive Director Samuel Tager hopes will happen every year. […]
THROUGHLINES
Woven Objects
A love of weaving and texture runs through Janet Beattie’s art
As a child growing up in Des Moines, Iowa, Janet Beattie learned to sew from her grandmother. By fifth grade, she was making her own clothes. That experience gave her […]
THE STROLL
Wellfleet, Saturday Night
Seen and heard on the weekly gallery wander
AMZehnder Gallery (25 Bank St. #3) At the AMZehnder Gallery, Mia Cross’s exhibition “Patchwork” is up. Her large-scale oil on canvas works are done in celestial blues and burnt […]
COMICS
Georgie and Barnacle: Out of the Box
TRANSFORMATION
John O’Connor Makes His Own Rules
Playful and off-kilter drawings that examine the slipperiness of meaning
John O’Connor’s exhibition at Farm Projects in Wellfleet takes its title from a phrase his grandfather used to say: “Wind up the cat and put the clock out.” It had […]
MONSTROUS
Hannah Barrett Paints Pertinent Portraits
An artist’s imaginary creatures have stories to tell
The characters in “Word Processor,” Hannah Barrett’s series of oil paintings, are secretaries, record keepers, and writers. They work in spaces filled with familiar objects: fruit, flowers, patterned rugs, telephones, […]
ARTISTE
Jacques Fromage: Art School
ARTISTS
Paintings of Observation and Experience
In ‘Heirloom,’ Liz Carney demonstrates a dance between body and brush
In early April, Liz Carney visited Italy for the first time on a trip organized by Provincetown yoga teacher Beth Goldstein. Her plan was to combine travel, yoga, and plein […]
GEORGIE AND BARNACLE
The Calming Counting of Carrots
MYSTICISM
Altered States
Donald Saaf travels to Mexico to paint worlds both real and imagined
The paintings by Donald Saaf now on view at Rice Polak Gallery in Provincetown depict a man watering a garden, a couple seated at a kitchen table, a woman selling […]
