While Anna Poor’s connections to the Outer Cape are deep and varied, a group of women artists, writers, and activists she has known and worked with over the years have […]
Arts & Minds
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INDIE SCREEN
A Fassbinder Classic Gets a Meta Gender Flip
François Ozon’s Peter von Kant is a pas de deux auteurs
French filmmaker François Ozon is a bit of a chameleon. He’s best known for the film Swimming Pool, with Charlotte Rampling as a British mystery writer vacationing in Provence. But […]
WRITERS
Finding Rhythm and Beauty in the Strange and Odd
Kieron Walquist brings a ‘queer, neurodivergent hillbilly perspective’ to his visceral poetry
Late at night, hearing the coyotes cry, Kieron Walquist watches as a red-tailed fox makes its rounds of the Fine Arts Work Center campus. When Walquist and the fox finally […]
TELEVISION
The Rhythmic Pleasures of Poker Face
Inspired by classic television crime procedurals, the Peacock original has been renewed for a second season
Rian Johnson specializes in satisfaction. The filmmaker behind Knives Out, Glass Onion, and the time-travel thriller Looper loves to construct narrative puzzle boxes where perfect solutions emerge in cathartic “aha!” […]
Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for March 16, 2023 through March 23, 2023
Zooming In to a World of Art On a good day, the drive from the Outer Cape to Falmouth can take the better part of two hours. But a series […]
LOCALS
Jim Zimmerman Connects Provincetown’s Past With Its Present
PAAM’s resident jack-of-all-trades is a fountain of institutional and community knowledge
Jim Zimmerman — camera around his neck — greeted me in the lobby of the Provincetown Art Association and Museum and led us through the museum’s expansive galleries with the […]
IN THE STUDIO
Sculptures That Demand to Be Seen
Kristy Hughes packs her works with meaning, both found and made
Kristy Hughes thinks in planes. A printmaker by training who says she “avoided sculpture” throughout her studies, Hughes now makes towering, vibrant, multi-part sculptures, many of which started out as […]
IN THE STUDIO
Yahna Harris and the Art of Family History
A FAWC fellow explores love, violence, and intergenerational dynamics in her recent film
In a scene from Yahna Harris’s current film-in-progress, the artist’s aunt sits regally in an armchair. Shot from a low angle, she commands a domestic space. There is no movement: […]
BENEFIT CONCERT
Music to Help Heal a Broken Land
Providing ‘a sonic environment for reflection and action’ in the wake of disaster
It’s difficult to grasp the massive scale of the earthquakes that struck southeast Turkey and northern Syria last month. More than 53,500 deaths have been confirmed as of this week, […]
ALBUM REVIEW
‘Terror’ Heralds a Towering Talent
Cape Cod’s Tianna Esperanza’s new album is a stunner
Anyone who was lucky enough to be at the Mews in Provincetown on March 9, 2020 may have witnessed the early stages of a supernova. When Tianna Esperanza performed at […]
Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for March 9, 2023 through March 16, 2023
Ellen Anthony Gets Physical On her way to see Meredith Monk’s last dance performance in New York City five years ago, Ellen Anthony slipped on the ice and injured her […]
HISTORIES
An Almost-Forgotten Story for Our Troubled Times
Rachel Maddow’s Ultra podcast tells a grim tale of Nazi-backed sedition in the U.S.
Rachel Maddow’s hit podcast Ultra is a tightly crafted work of historical research, a fable for our current fascism-tinged political landscape, and a love letter to the Library of Congress. […]
INDIE SCREEN
Oscar Contenders Fight the Good Fight
Three films take humanistic stances with uneven success
Canadian child actor turned writer-director Sarah Polley continues to prove she’s one of the great filmmaking talents of our time. Her four features — Away From Her (2006), starring Julie […]
IN THE STUDIO
Creating Worlds With Fiber and Glue
Carol Fitzsimons weaves together influences from painting and craft in her richly textured pictures
Carol Fitzsimons’s richly colored and textured works are painstakingly created by adhering small strips of string to canvas board with a toothpick and Elmer’s glue. “It’s like painting with fiber,” […]
INDIE PLAYLIST
Songs for International Women’s Day
Our staff picks to celebrate the vision and power of women in music
For International Women’s Day this year, members of the Independent staff sat down with Denya LeVine of WOMR for a roundtable discussion about women and music. You can tune in […]
