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 […]
Arts & Minds
Celebrating the creative and sometimes quirky culture of the Outer Cape.
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COLOR AND TEXTURE
Revelations on Guitar
Aaron Larget-Caplan gets along with his instrument
Aaron Larget-Caplan wanted to be a rock star. Growing up in Denver, Colo., he played his electric guitar listening to cassette tapes of Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix, and Ozzy Osbourne. […]
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 […]
FIVE PICKS
Lydia Vivante Selects Her Favorite Items From the PAAM Shop
Books about art-inspired food, white-line prints, and natural inks
Lydia Vivante, a visitor engagement associate at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum, is often the first person to greet a visitor to the museum. For Vivante, this is […]
POETRY
False Dawn
When I finally stirred myself to rise, Shaking off the vision of a faceless stalker, And myself, glimpsed in a full length mirror, Stalking around in trousers two inches too […]
POETRY
Summer Question
The wind sloshes against the locust leaves, as inside a cypress a warm-feathered wren wrings out her song against the breeze: Teakettle, tea kettle, kitty oo, kitty oo, diddly diddly […]
COMICS
Jacques Fromage: The Kibbutz
Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for September 11, 2025 through September 18, 2025
The Beat Goes On With Jackie Beat by James Judd | Julia Thacker Brings Provincetown To Wildness by Juliet Leary | Faces of the Community by Abraham Storer | Photography […]
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 […]
MUSIC
Indie Playlist: Summer’s End
Songs for the changing season and the evolving self
The parking lots are emptier, the breezes feel chillier, and apples are beginning to replace peaches on the kitchen counter. Autumn is swiftly approaching, and that calls for a new […]
MEMOIR AND DOCUMENTARY
A Life of Teaching About Wealth and Poverty
In a new book and a film, Robert Reich reflects on his America
Robert Reich is having a moment. His powerful new book about income inequality, Coming Up Short: A Memoir of My America, published last month by Knopf, was recently number one […]
