Arts & Minds
Celebrating the creative and sometimes quirky culture of the Outer Cape.
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IMAGE AND MEMORY
Life in the Dunes Through Jane Paradise’s Eyes
The photographer’s story of Provincetown’s dune shacks in pictures and the words of those who love them
The 19 dune shacks in the Peaked Hill Bars Historic District of the Cape Cod National Seashore might be the most famous Outer Cape landmarks that many people have never […]
INDIE SCREEN
When La Dolce Vita Is Anything but Sweet
Mike White takes The White Lotus to Sicily for its second season
In the National Archeological Museum of Naples, Italy, there’s a section known as the Gabinetto Segreto (“Secret Cabinet”). It contains all the erotic art and artifacts — depicting penises, omnisexual […]
SACRED SPACE
Continuing a Legacy of Art, Devotion, and Community
Once a ship’s galley, an art gallery in Orleans resonates with history and tradition
ORLEANS — There’s a cleaver clamped to the ceiling of the Galley West Art Gallery on Monument Road. It was left there by the cook of the Orissa, a ship […]
BOOK REVIEW
When Women Rule the Workplace
The story of the workers and organizers who inspired a movement and a hit movie
While the phrase “workin’ 9 to 5” immediately evokes the bouncy vocals of Dolly Parton, her song — and the movie it was written for — are indebted to a […]
Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for Dec. 1 through Dec. 8, 2022
First Fridays at the Fine Arts Work Center Last month, the Fine Arts Work Center (24 Pearl St., Provincetown) held a sneak preview of a new monthly program featuring open […]
TRADITIONS
Art That Sustains and Perseveres
A new book explores how the Wampanoag connect the spiritual and the material
Most cultural histories of Cape Cod begin with Charles Hawthorne’s establishment of an art school in Provincetown in 1899. But Lee Roscoe knows the story is much older than that. […]
THEATER REVIEW
‘Tiny Beautiful Things’ Is a Potent Spoonful of Sugar
Cheryl Strayed’s advice column comes brilliantly to life in Provincetown
The notion of an advice columnist brings up strange memories. There’s Nathanael West’s Miss Lonelyhearts, the dark novella about a Depression-era newspaper columnist who is driven mad by the horrific […]
IN THE STUDIO
Margot Stage Brings the Discarded Back to Life
After a career in radio journalism, Stage finds joy in telling a different kind of story
EASTHAM — Margot Stage had a career in public radio as a producer for WGBH in Boston where she worked primarily with words and sounds, creating stories by combining interview […]
TV OR NOT TV
The Season for Streaming
What to watch with the family — or get cozy with when you need some alone time
Picks by Independent staff and contributors Drink Masters, Netflix When I was a kid, the best part of Thanksgiving was always raiding my uncle’s liquor cabinet. (It was the ’70s. […]
LINE BREAK
Pilgrims in Provincetown
Robert Strong queries colonial legacy on the Outer Cape
The overlapping stories of the Outer Cape are so thick and rich that it’s hard to hear them all: Nauset and Wampanoag people, Viking explorers, Basque fishermen, other European explorers, […]
Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for November 23, through December 1, 2022
Suzette Lebenzon’s Mystical Wellfleet In Suzette Lebenzon’s Broken Heart Mending at Lieutenant Island, a crow flies above a winding road that extends into a fantastically colored night sky. The road […]
LOCAL LEGENDS
Lights On at First Encounter
Celebrating nearly 50 years of music at a beloved Eastham coffee house that ‘rings with goodness’
EASTHAM — After two and a half years, the lights at the First Encounter Coffee House in Eastham’s Chapel in the Pines will finally be on again — at least […]
LINE BREAK
Mad Libs Poetry: From Primrose to Precambrian
Debbie Nadolney considers deep time via a poem by Rita Dove
Debbie Nadolney is someone most art lovers (or music lovers, or convergence lovers) in Provincetown know. She arrived on the local gallery scene in 2012 when she opened AMP — […]
EXPRESSIONS
Variations on Resisting (and Embracing) a Theme
Sigrid Trumpy fuses memory and experimentation to create a varied body of work
“I’m at this point in my life where I do whatever I want,” says Sigrid Trumpy. Her current exhibition at Wellfleet Preservation Hall presents a varied body of work — […]
