In an essay accompanying the exhibit “69 Witch Eyes,” Justin Vivian Bond, who uses the pronouns they/them, asks a pertinent question for life during the pandemic: “How do we care […]
Art
MIXED MEDIA
Megan Hinton Assembles a New Voice
Creating art with a palette of different materials
In the fall of 2018, Wellfleet artist Megan Hinton entered Mills College in Oakland, Calif., to get an M.F.A., a fine art degree unlike the master’s she’d gotten years ago […]
HERITAGE
Mischa Richter’s Paintings: Nothing Cartoonish About ’em
A new exhibit at Bakker Gallery recalls a Provincetown artist’s fine artwork
Though Mischa Richter was widely celebrated as a cartoonist, at The New Yorker and elsewhere, he painted fine art canvases seriously and steadily throughout his life. He said of his […]
INSTALLATIONS
Mark Brennan Paints a Monumental Watercolor
His 64-foot dune snakes around the walls of Wellfleet’s Off Main Gallery
Over the last seven weeks, while painting Edge of the Continent/Center of the World, a 64-foot-long watercolor of the Outer Cape dunes, Mark Brennan has been listening to Beethoven. “I […]
PAINTING
Chet Jones Looks Beyond the Material World
With his canvases, he seeks to understand a deeper landscape
The painter Chet Jones normally doesn’t talk to journalists about his art. “I’m very unpromoting,” he says. “I know that’s a sacrilege to say, because so much art is built […]
PHOTOGRAPHY
Francis Olschafskie Develops Antique Negatives to Surreal Effect
An exhibit of vintage black-and-white photographs meets its moment
“I loved the darkroom, but the world changes,” photographer Francis Olschafskie says, a light wind scattering his raspy voice. “These prints were sort of an end for me.” Olschafskie, whose […]
ART EDUCATION
At PAAM, Tessa Bry Taylor Makes Sure the Kids Are All Right
Youth programs continue online and outdoors
“We are seeing unprecedented challenges in youth and art education,” says Tessa Bry Taylor, the Provincetown Art Association and Museum’s new curator of youth education. She took over the position […]
THE ART OF CRISIS
Coronavirus Shutdown Inspires Cynthia Packard
Live-stream classes spark a creative surge
Before the pandemic, celebrated and influential Provincetown artist Cynthia Packard was blocked for two years — she hardly painted. Every time she tried, she would feel the urge to wipe […]
GALLERIES
What’s Real About Robert Goldstrom’s Art Is His Unerring Style
Just as fish gotta swim, he’s going to paint what he sees
“I am generally a rather high-strung, tense person, anal retentive,” Robert Goldstrom says, speaking from his home in Claverack, N.Y., near Hudson, in the Hudson River Valley. “Compared to most […]
PSYCHEDELIA
Andrew Jacob Keeps the Spirit of Graffiti Art Alive
A joyful Eastham show riffs on surf culture and rebel art heroes
When Wellfleet artist Andrew Jacob was a teenager, he painted freight trains and abandoned buildings. “At night we would sneak out,” he says. “There was kind of a ‘code of […]
OUTER CAPE PORTRAIT
The Mermaid’s Grange
JULIA SALINGER / ARTIST, WRITER & ACTOR / WELLFLEET When she was in New York City, Julia Salinger worked in art galleries and the music business. She produced records and […]
PAINTING
A Master Class With Paul Resika
He has a show in Provincetown, a new book, and 80 years of experience
Paul Resika’s studio in Truro is strewn with clam shells that he uses to mix his paints — orange ones, turquoise ones, mustard yellow ones. They are like little distillations […]
GALLERIES
Paul Bowen Washes Back Ashore in Provincetown
A show of new work reflects his roots here and abroad
“The beach used to smell like hell,” sculptor Paul Bowen says. He is seated at a workbench in his studio on the top floor of a rugged barn that was […]
artists
For Michele Harvey, Watercolor Is Creative Renewal
A lifetime of overcoming obstacles inspires her art
In 2007, painter Michele Harvey, whose breathtaking oil landscapes of forests in the early morning mist commanded high prices at her galleries in New York City and Provincetown, found her […]
galleries
Christopher Sousa Paints Male Figures His Way
The Provincetown artist has carefully cultivated an idiosyncratic style
Painter Christopher Sousa, whose exhibit, “All the Time in the World,” will be at William Scott Gallery from Friday, Aug. 7, through Aug. 19, does not paint what he considers […]
