Obscured by trees, Rob DuToit’s Provincetown studio is easy to miss. Approached from the side, it appears as an innocuous whitewashed structure with a single door. But the odd angle […]
Art
EXHIBITIONS
A Love Letter to Provincetown at the Cape Museum of Art
Cataloguing the ‘magnificent obsession’ of six artists
Anyone who’s spent time out on the tidal flats of Cape Cod Bay can attest to their allure. Stretching a mile or more at low tide, they can feel like […]
GLASS ART
John Best Takes Great Panes
A polymath and ‘glassaholic’
John Best has studied every stained-glass window made by prolific late-19th-century designer Louis C. Tiffany. But one forever changed his outlook: Mermaid With Goldfish. The design is based on the […]
ARTISTS
Layers of Rust and Paint
Michael Marrinan captures the Cape’s light
The first piece of copper that Michael Marrinan sold didn’t have much paint on it. The sheet — a scrap from a copper bar top he’d built for the Underground […]
PURSUITS
During Covid, Michael Hartwig Turns to Writing Gay Romance Novels
It’s just another creative outlet for the Provincetown painter and professor of sexual ethics
Michael Hartwig is not one to let Covid cramp his style. During the pandemic, he and his partner, Steve Ridini, who split their time between Boston and Provincetown, chose to […]
NEW COMPANY AT FAWC
Fine Arts Work Center Welcomes Its 2021-2022 Fellows
20 visual artists and writers take up residence in Provincetown
Nineteen writing and visual arts fellows arrived last month at the Fine Arts Work Center for seven-month residencies in Provincetown. One more fellow, Ellen Akimoto, is in Germany dealing with […]
IN THE STUDIO
The Complete Works of Bert Yarborough
A look inside his overflowing, colorful Truro workspace
From the outside, Bert Yarborough’s Truro studio, located in an industrial complex, doesn’t look like much. It is housed in a row of identical rented units, each with a windowless […]
GALLERIES
Chris Firger Gives Cape Landscapes an Early Modern Flair
Inspired by Canadian masters, he makes paintings that ‘jump off the wall’
“The root of a lot of what I do is the Group of Seven,” Chris Firger says, speaking by phone from his Salem studio after a long day’s work preparing […]
ARTISTS
Frank Milby: Friend and Mentor
He and Katrina Walker share a retrospective at the Commons
Katrina Walker first met Frank Milby in 1983 at Provincetown’s Café Edwige, now closed, where Milby’s wife, Karen, worked. “Frank came up to our table,” recalls Walker. “He looked at […]
SCULPTORS
For Susan Lyman, Art Doesn’t Just Grow on Trees
Her new show is a surreal reflection of the natural world in distress
“I’m not a city person,” says the artist Susan Lyman, chatting in the far East End Provincetown home she designed and built in 1987 with her late husband, Doug Trumbo, […]
ART AS CELEBRATION
The Quirky and Quotable Ellen Anthony
The artist has spent the ‘second half’ of her life listening to dreams
“I’m interested in weird,” says Truro artist Ellen Anthony. “So much of our culture is about ‘getting it right’ and ‘doing it well,’ and I’m just not into that. Take […]
PUSH AND PULL
Rejecting ‘Pretty Pictures,’ an Artist Cuts a New Direction
Daniel Wagner slices up and reassembles his own paintings
“I think it grew out of my frustration as a painter,” Daniel Wagner says, looking around at the many canvases lying about his cluttered Provincetown Commons studio. “What do I […]
RENEWED
A First Peek Into FAWC’s New Heart
In the renovated Walker Gallery, an exhibition that unites past and future
PROVINCETOWN — After more than five years, the renovation of the Fine Arts Work Center campus is nearly complete. “This is the beginning of our shakedown, to see what it’s […]
IN THE STUDIO
Salvatore Del Deo: Routine and Ritual
A student of Hensche and Dickinson embodies their practices
Salvatore Del Deo first came to Provincetown in 1946 to study painting with Henry Hensche. “When I drove to the Cape the first time, it took six hours from Providence,” […]
NATIVE ART
Hawk and Sierra Henries Create Beauty out of Wood
Father and daughter are Weidlinger house residents this week
Hawk Henries has been making hand-carved wooden flutes since as long as his daughter Sierra, 34, can remember. “He’s one of a very small handful of people doing the work […]
