Ten apricots, a bunch of grapes, three blueberries, a skull tipped over, a half-empty glass: these subjects would be just as at home on the walls of the Rijksmuseum in […]
Art
COLORSCAPES
The Abstract Journeys of Malu Tan
The artist explores a constantly shifting world of raw emotion
A spiral staircase leads to artist Malu Tan’s second-floor studio in North Tryon, an industrial district in uptown Charlotte, N.C. Her building is a converted bomb shelter. The studio is […]
LESS IS MORE
Polly Burnell’s Interior Vision Unearths Complex Worlds
Her paintings are small, but they are inspired by profound experiences
One of Polly Burnell’s most recent paintings, The Whale Dream (5 years before I came here), is of a whale that seems to be ascending from the water toward a […]
AUCTIONS
The Quirky Works That Filled the White Horse Inn
Jackson Lambert’s funky art is impossible to pin down
Even if you are not the kind to frequent galleries, you’ve seen Jackson Lambert’s art. He worked with Anton “Napi” Van Dereck Haunstrup, making the paintings, sculptures, and signs that […]
THE STROLL
Provincetown, Friday Night
Seen and heard on the weekly gallery walk
On Center Gallery (352 Commercial St.) Katie Faria from Middleborough looks thoughtfully at Lorraine DeProspo’s Kiss the Day. Mounted on the wall at On Center Gallery between two other paintings […]
PORTRAITS
Kathryn Engberg Forsakes the Male Gaze
The painter pairs technical mastery with cultural commentary
Madonna is depressed. Not because — as in her appearances as the Virgin Mary since the Renaissance — she knows that her kid, the baby Jesus, is going to be […]
HAT TRICK
Three Provincetown Painters Display Whimsy, Masculinity, and Identity
Recent works by Towle, Wilmoth, and Mikula will fill the walls of the Commons
Three Provincetown painters — Trevor Mikula, Josh Wilmoth, and Andy Towle — will be showing new works at the Provincetown Commons starting next week. The concurrent shows open Tuesday, June […]
ON JEANS
Extraordinary Stories Stitched in Relatable Cloth
Myra Kooy assembles a show that reflects queer Black women being themselves
When you walk into the Urvashi Vaid and Kate Clinton Community Room at the Provincetown Commons, you see a collection of jackets and shirts hanging on the walls. The 25 […]
MAXIMALIST
The Totality of Julia Salinger
A multidisciplinary artist who doesn’t hold back
A maximalist by nature, Julia Salinger indulges in all that she finds curious and delightful. She’s a voracious collector of paper ephemera and a compulsive creator. “I basically live inside […]
PRIDE
The Fantastical Spaces of Phil Jimenez
A comics artist pencils and inks a way out
Comics artist and writer Phil Jimenez was alone a lot when he was growing up in Long Beach, Calif. “Drawing was a way to entertain myself,” he says. Known for […]
PAINTING
Arthur V. Diehl’s Restless Imagination
The early 20th-century artist found himself most settled working in Provincetown
Born in 1870, Arthur V. Diehl emigrated from England to the United States in his early 20s and hustled throughout his life to earn a living as a painter. In […]
RETROSPECTIVE
Marian Roth’s Obsession With Time Never Stops
Her current show looks back on 40 years in Provincetown
“I could turn this gallery into a pinhole camera,” says Marian Roth. Her retrospective “Then and Now — Reflecting on Forty Years” is at On Center Gallery in Provincetown and […]
PAINTING
Studies in the Everyday Objects That Tether Us
Boats, houses, matchbooks, cans, and tea bags float with feeling in Traci Harmon-Hay’s work
“My work is always telling a story,” says Traci Harmon-Hay. Pieces from her new series, “Hovering Boats,” will be exhibited from May 24 to June 17 at Farm Projects in […]
HISTORY
Provincetown’s Forum 49 Was Born in Anguish
Seventy-five years later, echoes of an effort ‘to relate all the arts’
Following a decade marked by the horrors of war and on the cusp of another that would secure America’s global ascendancy, Provincetown’s Forum 49 was more than an art exhibition […]
IN THE STUDIO
Sarah Dineen Meditates on One Shape
Showing that amplitude can be found in austerity
In 2020, Sarah Dineen unearthed a 19-square-foot painting that she had made as a graduate student at the School of Visual Arts in New York. “I call it my adolescent […]
