Arts & Minds
Celebrating the creative and sometimes quirky culture of the Outer Cape.
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GALLERIES
Simie Maryles Is on the Move
After 26 years, the Provincetown painter will have a new space
If you have strolled along Cemetery Road at night and looked up at the Pilgrim Monument, you may have noticed, just underneath it, a well-lit studio and a painter working […]
BIG PICTURE
Reflections in the Badlands
A chance encounter with a Townsend’s solitaire
The Townsend’s Solitaire defends two worlds — the juniper grove and its reflection. Endlessly he sings on the sill between. That first winter after my brother died unexpectedly in fall […]
VIRTUOSO
For Beppe Gambetta, Music Is Like Magic
The guitarist from Genoa whose life was changed by Doc Watson’s flatpicking
Beppe Gambetta grew up in the ancient port city of Genoa, Italy. His mother and father were “opera people,” fond of music, he says. Gambetta was more than fond of […]
PEACEMAKERS
Art That Bridges Divides
An exhibition honors the legacy and vision of Martin Luther King Jr.
Walking into the current exhibition at Wellfleet Preservation Hall, one is greeted by Jo Hay’s oversize painting of the country’s youngest inaugural poet, Amanda Gorman. On the opposite wall is […]
POETRY
First Rain at the New House
Comes at night as if from a great distance muffled, like one half asleep. Last year we slept under skylights close to the weather. It rained last night I say. […]
POETRY
Sal’s
They are older, seated in the corner. It is warm and amber in the small room. The busy waiter signals with his hand — one minute! — and they nod […]
Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for January 16, 2024 through January 23, 2025
Writers and Readers at Castle Hill Novelist Karen Dukess will talk with Deborah Jackson Taffa, a citizen of the Yuma Nation and Laguna Pueblo and author of Whiskey Tender, a […]
IN THE STUDIO
The Ebb and Flow of a Life in Art
Helen Miranda Wilson’s journey of ‘digression and precision’
Helen Miranda Wilson’s studio sits at the center of her Wellfleet house, which was built in the 1850s. The studio seems set up for ideas to unravel and find form: […]
INDIE SCREEN
Gazing at Stars When Times Are a-Changing
Two new prize-worthy films look at an artist and ecology anew
Just who is Bob Dylan? It’s impossible to pin down the man born Robert Allen Zimmerman in Duluth, Minn. in 1941, because his persona as songwriter and performer has always […]
POETRY
The Glorious First
In Britain, Aug. 12, “the Glorious Twelfth,” marks the start of the red-grouse-shooting season. In Eastham, Nov. 1 marks the start of the recreational oyster-gathering season. “Shooting-box”: a small country […]
POETRY
The Bear
My aggressive hunger for something that I wanted appeared in a dream as a huge brown bear, […]
INSCRIPTIONS
Revelations in the Margins
An exhibition points out hints of histories written in the artists’ own hands
Madelein Larson has probably looked more closely at nearly every work at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum than anyone else has. Larson is the collections manager and registrar, and […]
MUSIC
Indie Playlist: New Sounds
Songs to soundtrack a new year, and a new you.
Every new year is an opportunity to renew ourselves: to plan new experiences, start a new exercise routine, or quit drinking (at least temporarily). It’s also a great time to […]
Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for January 9, 2024 through January 16, 2025
Kareem Sanjaghi Plays a Bit of Everything Kareem Sanjaghi, who grew up in Brewster and now lives in Plymouth, has been playing the drums for 25 years and leading his […]
