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 […]
Art
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 […]
LOCAL COLOR
Street Artists Start a Conversation in Eastham
Murals at the former Nickerson’s and T-Time delight some, dismay others
EASTHAM — Two new works of art appeared along Route 6 last weekend — a large mural on the façade at the former Nickerson Service Center, and a smaller project […]
IN THE STACKS
Finding Rhythm in Truro’s Hills
The Truro Public Library’s art collection connects its community and landscape
The Truro Public Library, like its peers on the Outer Cape, hosts an art collection donated by artists and patrons. This past month, Tom Wojtalak became the latest donor with […]
IN THE STACKS
First a Church, Then a Museum, Now a Library
Hanging beside bookshelves, paintings tell of Provincetown’s cultural history
If you’ve walked down Commercial Street in Provincetown, you’ve likely met the tourists standing outside the public library. Immortalized in bronze by sculptor Chaim Gross, the couple — a large-chested […]
ARTISTS
For Christine Niles, Bigger Isn’t Better
Capturing Provincetown’s light in small paintings
Christine Niles’s narrative challenges the myth, mostly believed by nonartists, that artists are born and not made. “I always enjoyed the arts, but I didn’t feel myself drawn to them […]
CRYPTO-CONOMY
Valuing the Intangible and the Non-Fungible
For Outer Cape artists, NFTs mostly don’t live up to the hype
To those unfamiliar with cryptocurrency and NFTs, the term “non-fungible” sounds more like a type of mushroom than an economic term. But the buzz around non-fungible tokens, or NFTs, has […]
VISUAL ARTIST
Taking Time and Trusting the Process
Austin Ballard weaves art and craft together
Austin Ballard creates undulating forms of rattan and clay that writhe and roll like kelp. The sculptures, which take weeks, and sometimes months, to complete, feel almost figurative; whether they […]
