Art
SKETCHBOOK
Provincelands, Dune Shacks, Fall Day
PHOTOGRAPHY
An Exhibit at PAAM in Black and White and Color
The museum highlights photography from its permanent collection
The Provincetown Art Association and Museum is known for its collection and shows of work by world-renowned painters, sculptors, and printmakers who have lived and made art here. Oil painting, […]
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Licensing Board Urged to Keep Art Everywhere in Provincetown
Gallery owner Ray Wiggs wants to protect the ‘gallery system’
PROVINCETOWN — Artists, gallery owners, and retailers gave resoundingly bad reviews to Ray Wiggs’s attempt to have the town ban the sale of fine art in restaurants, bars, and inns […]
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Bats
Northern Long-Eared Bat (threatened, endangered). Scientists know them by their calls, and catch them in mist nets. These guys frequent kettle ponds. Across the dunes and forests of Cape Cod […]
CULTURE DESK
Eight of 11 Board Members Quit ‘Provincetown Arts’
Celebrated annual’s founder says he is ‘slightly elated’ by resignations
PROVINCETOWN — Every summer for the last 34 years the fat and glossy Provincetown Arts magazine has hit the newsstands with a proud thump. On its pages — and this […]
ART AND POETRY
A Love of Two Peninsulas Creates an Unusual Exhibit
Bracaval and Brunet-Weinmann collaboration connects Cape Cod and Brittany
WELLFLEET — Art critic and poet Monique Brunet-Weinmann and artist Bertrand Bracaval are both from Brittany, the westernmost region of France, but they did not meet each other there. That […]
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The Wellfleet Beach Scarp
Summer's contours, scoured away
The summer beach builds during calm seasonal weather until this time of year when stormier tides take big bites out of the mounded sand, leaving rugged scarps. If there’s a […]
OBITUARY
Artist, Gallery Owner Anne Lord Malicoat Is Dead at 81
A long-time presence in Provincetown, she was a compulsive truth-teller
PROVINCETOWN — Anne Lord Malicoat, a long-time resident of Provincetown, died peacefully at home on Aug. 29, 2019, with her family at her side. She was 81 and had lived […]
PEOPLE
Elspeth Halvorsen Creates Worlds in Her Boxes
Provincetown artist’s signature is the moods of the seas, moon, and tides
PROVINCETOWN — The 250 Bradford St. home of artists Elspeth Halvorsen and Tony Vevers, formerly owned by Mark Rothko, is hidden behind an overgrown patch of trees. On this sunny, […]
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Debra Dickinson Brings Crumbling Art Back to Life
A restorer grasps overlapping layers of substance and history
WELLFLEET — The picture, painted in about 1898 by S.F.M. Badger for Capt. Lewis R. Paine, was a classic Americana image of Paine’s ship plowing a translucent sea in full-blown […]
