Rachel Brown remembers arriving on the Outer Cape as a child in 1944. Her family had moved from New York and rented a cottage on Slough Pond in Truro. “It […]
Arts & Minds
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UGLY TRUTHS
Young Writer Seeks Difficulty
FAWC fellow Jiaqi Kang isn’t afraid to write willfully
Jiaqi Kang doesn’t like to call their longtime habit — waking in the morning and scribbling recollections of dreams — a “practice,” because that word is “hoity-toity.” But one morning […]
HISTORY REDUX
Unpacking the Past at the Provincetown Museum
A curator works to uncover the stories behind the stuff
For weeks, Samuel Tager and a small team have been unwrapping, sorting, and cataloguing a vast collection of Provincetown memorabilia donated to the Pilgrim Monument and Provincetown Museum by Sal […]
POETRY
Old Saybrook Beach
For Zahra
You waited for me before you knew my name. Until I was held in that wash of sunshine, which lent us its final beams before sailing south for winter. Wind […]
RADIO
Listening to Everything
Indira Ganesan lets the music speak for itself
When Indira Ganesan was a WOMR DJ in the 1980s, she was reprimanded by the program director for playing tracks that he deemed too raucous. “All the early morning shows […]
BIG PICTURE
A Walk in the Woods
Kelly Knight’s abstractions flow from the landscape
Kelly Knight is a Providence-based mixed-media artist. She’s spending time in Wellfleet this winter creating abstract images that record her experience of the landscape. Walking through and observing places is […]
Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for February 13, 2025 through February 20, 2025
A Junior-Size Sondheim Musical After three years of teaching middle- and high-school students in her advanced acting class, Academy Playhouse Artistic Director Judy Hamer knew that her students were ready […]
DISNEY DISPATCH
At Home Away in Tokyo
At DisneySea, Cape Codde Village is one strange place to be
Tourists flock around the shoreline, snapping photographs of rowboats and lobster traps. “Youkoso, Keipukoddo e,” a restaurant worker shouts: Welcome to Cape Cod. But I’m not on Cape Cod: I’m […]
EXCURSIONS
On the Road With Grace Hopkins
Composing abstract expressionist ‘photo paintings’ from London to Málaga
Grace Hopkins’s photographs are easily mistaken for abstract expressionist paintings, but she doesn’t use paint and brushes to create the splashes of color and gestural swirls in what she refers […]
BIG PICTURE
Changing Seasons
For Grace Emmet, winter is for digging into her sketchbook and using her naturally sourced ink
Grace Emmet is both an artist and curator of community education at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum. She’s a close observer of nature and maintains an ecologically sustainable art […]
INDIE SCREEN
From Bauhaus to Art House
Modernist filmmakers ride Oscar’s red carpet
Given the state of transphobia and xenophobia today, I’m not sure that having a trans lead in Emilia Pérez who starts out as a Mexican drug cartel boss is going […]
THEATER
A Place to Be Brave, Loud, and Ridiculous
Cape Rep’s Young Company teaches more than just theater
BREWSTER — Rehearsal starts with a circle. It’s Tuesday evening, and 20 teenagers from the Cape Rep Theatre’s Young Company face each other on the stage. Though they’re empty-handed, they […]
GRACE NOTES
First Chords and Blistered Fingers
Austin Smith patiently guides adults in the art of learning an instrument
In Wellfleet Elementary School’s basement music room, five adults sit strumming guitars, led by their teacher, Austin Smith. “Was anyone able to get a little practice in this week?” Smith […]
Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for February 6, 2024 through February 13, 2025
A Musical Pirate Adventure In Melina Long’s 2003 children’s book How I Became a Pirate, young Jeremy Jacob is playing on a beach when he is enlisted by Capt. Braid […]
WORKING ORDER
Space to Create
Four artists on how they keep their studios functional and inspiring
Minimalism has grown increasingly popular in recent years, while messiness has been declared an obstacle to productivity. But artists were never ones to submit to rules or trends, and they’re […]
