Amid the hustle and bustle of Commercial Street, we all watch other people. Grabbing what we can from someone’s bright yellow shirt, leather chaps, or bald spot, we invent a […]
Art
SKIN AND INK
Welcome to Tattoo Summer Camp
In a Provincetown parlor, individualists share their styles
PROVINCETOWN — Walk down Commercial Street in the summer and you’ll feel the buzz. Party conversations linger. Kids splash on the shore. New waiters rush to tables. Dogs wrestle. Drag […]
RETROSPECTIVE
A Maverick Artist’s Many Faces
Provincetown celebrates Philip C. Malicoat with paired exhibitions
Moisture, fog, the piney essence of forest and dunes — to commune with these in a Philip Malicoat landscape or seascape is to experience that certain slant of light when […]
CANVASES
Behind the Scenes With Malicoat’s Larger Works
A conservator copes with Cape Cod’s environment and with the paint itself
Few viewers are conscious of what goes on behind the scenes to keep a museum’s collection not just intact but resistant to the unrelenting effects of time. But conservator and […]
LIFE CYCLES
Encounters With Painting in Place
James Everett Stanley situates innocence, threats, and identity on the landscape
“Part of the reason I’m interested in portraiture,” says the painter James Everett Stanley, “is that you can see life’s journey just in somebody’s face, in the weathering, in the […]
VANTAGE POINTS
Joel Janowitz Works From the Inside Out
A painter’s landscapes explore the inner act of perception
Strolling down Commercial Street and into the Mary Heaton Vorse house, one is aware of Provincetown Harbor moving in and out of view. It glistens between buildings or stretches out […]
THE DOG CATCHER
John Waters Starts His 58th Provincetown Summer
There is no confusing his work with anyone else’s
Filmmaker, writer, visual artist, actor, and art collector. John Waters’s oeuvre may not be deep, but it certainly is wide. There is no confusing his artwork with anyone else’s, and […]
RECOLLECTIONS
Portrait of a Provincetown Summer
Instead of a tip, a painter’s gift that lasted a lifetime
PROVINCETOWN — Millie Harris first came to town in the summer of 1932. That Memorial Day weekend, she took a job as a waitress at a coffee shop on Commercial […]
ARTISTS
Waxing Poetic on Community and Art
Michael David discusses his life as an artist and teacher
“Everything meaningful in my adult life has come from the relationship with this material,” says artist Michael David, referring to encaustic — a painting material composed of wax, damar varnish, […]
STITCHES
The Surprising Feminism of Men Who Knit
A show at Bowersock invites a look back at knitting’s nuanced history
John Crane answered the phone to find a friend in crisis — before you get too alarmed, it was a knitting crisis. Beth Brown-Reinsel, a celebrity within the insular world […]
OUTSIDER ART
The Alternate Realities of Michael J. Andrews
The former town hall custodian explores local and celestial visions in his paintings
“I don’t claim to be an artist,” says Michael J. Andrews, sitting in an easy chair at his Provincetown condo. “There are artists out there, like Mrs. Packard, or all […]
RAZZLE DAZZLE
Screen Printing the Visual Zeitgeist
Chris Kelly’s paintings mine imagery from past and present
Pulling Through, the title of Chris Kelly’s show at Gallery 444 in Provincetown, is both a nod to his Provincetown debut — he’s pulling through town — and a reference […]
REAL ABSTRACTION
Works Built to Complicate Perspective
Quinn Gorbutt’s photographs are not ‘what your eyes are used to seeing’
It’s hard to know how to categorize Quinn Gorbutt’s artwork, hovering as it does in the space between photography, sculpture, and painting. In the artist’s statement accompanying his exhibition, Heart, […]
ARTISTS
A Public Exploration of Privacy
Kamrooz Aram’s Chicago exhibition reflects his Wellfleet experiences
Iran and Wellfleet are worlds apart, yet the painter Kamrooz Aram managed to find memories of his native country in the reflections of Wellfleet’s kettle ponds on two visits to […]
CONSTRUCTIONS
Bz Charts Stories of Home and Elsewhere
An architect with an artist’s eye explores the layers of place-making
“Much of my work reckons with home and elsewhere as two foundational stories we tell to explain who and where we are,” says the visual artist and architect known as […]
