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: […]
Art
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 […]
Lost to Time
Provincetown Fishermen of the '30s & '40s
Greetings from Cape Cod
“Grape-Nuts”
MUSES
Painting With Ferocity and Freedom
In the summer of 1958, Bob Thompson found inspiration among his friends in Provincetown
Bob Thompson came to Provincetown in 1958 and met a group of peers who would influence his art and his life. “I Am Myself: Early Works by Bob Thompson and […]
DRAWING LIFE
On the Hunt for Courtney Allen
The illustrator who rendered America in myth and modernity
On a long wooden table in the quiet confines of the Cobb Archive in Truro, the beasts don’t circle as much as they overlap, still menacing but yellowed with time. […]
MUSIC AND ART
Garrett Dutton Finds a Different Rhythm
For this musician, painting is a source of freedom untethered from expectations
Garrett Dutton is best known by his stage name, G. Love. Since the early 1990s, he’s fronted the hip-hop blues band G. Love and Special Sauce, which maintains an active […]
ARTISTS
Variations on a Theme
A Greenwich Village exhibit invites us into Pat de Groot’s studio by the sea
The gallery at the New York Studio School on West 8th Street was empty of people when I visited Provincetown artist Pat de Groot’s posthumous survey exhibition, “Sea Smoke,” the […]
THE PRESENT MOMENT
Building a Home and a Community Through Art
Fred Boak and Naomi Rush compiled their art collection by gift-giving in a ‘late romance’
In a sunny room of her Orleans house, Naomi Rush begins a tour of her art collection with a black-and-white linocut by Joyce Johnson titled Salt Pond — Winter. Rush’s […]
AN ARTIST’S LEGACY
A Family History, Recorded in Christmas Cards
Barbara Haven Malicoat was ‘the best grandmother ever’
Sculptor Breon Dunigan, sitting at her kitchen table in Truro, remembers the Christmastime haircuts well. She and her siblings and cousins — the six granddaughters of Provincetown artist Barbara Haven […]
CONNECTIONS
Bringing Artists ‘Side by Side’ in Orleans
A joint effort by two galleries fosters new dialogues
An exhibition currently on view in Orleans combines works from two galleries: Orleans Modern Art and Garvey Rita Art & Antiques. Titled “Side by Side,” the show draws aesthetic connections […]
’TIS THE SEASON
Artists and Gallerists Deck the Halls
Small works shows offer holiday gifts
Inside his studio gallery tucked into Provincetown’s Whalers Wharf, artist Gaston Lacombe is embellishing a tree. Not a Christmas tree, but a tree painted on a large panel in bright […]
ART
Techspressionism Rocks the Boat
Cape and Canadian artists create moving images for an oceanic exhibition
Forty years ago, artist Karen LaFleur realized that she could make designs using a dot matrix printer. She painstakingly typed alternating Xs, Os, symbols, and blank spaces on her computer […]
ICONOGRAPHY
Provincetown’s Wharves as Motif
Where artists as well as fishermen embarked on risky ventures
The wharf in all its stages — from bustling workplace to burnt timbers — has seen generations of artists setting up easels to capture the arrival and departure of schooners […]
