Coco Peru: Now, More Than Ever Coco Peru has been rehearsing her new show, Fucq This Sh!t, from her temporary home in Andalusia, Spain. “It’s been a little weird,” says […]
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Arts Briefs for August 14, 2025 through August 21, 2025
Paintings that Abstract and Reveal As her career has matured, Cynthia Packard’s paintings of human figures, flowers, dogs, and boats have become increasingly abstracted. She’s still rooted in painting from […]
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Arts Briefs for August 7, 2025 through August 14, 2025
Joan Osborne Puts Her Own Spin on Bob Dylan Joan Osborne has been listening to Bob Dylan since his music was being released on cassette tapes and covering his songs […]
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Arts Briefs for July 31, 2025 through August 7, 2025
Art That Celebrates Mexican Heritage Nicolas V. Sanchez’s parents emigrated from Guanajuato, Mexico and settled in Lansing, Mich., where he was born and raised. Sanchez combines traditional academic painting practices […]
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Arts Briefs for July 24, 2025 through July 31, 2025
A Treasure Trove of Queer History When historian Alice Friedman learned about Max Ewing — a musician, visual artist, photographer, and habitué of queer nightlife New York City in the […]
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Arts Briefs for July 17, 2025 through July 24, 2025
Happy Birthday, Mary Oliver To celebrate what would have been the late poet Mary Oliver’s 90th birthday this fall, the Truro Meeting House (3 First Parish Lane) will hold a […]
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Arts Briefs for July 10, 2025 through July 17, 2025
Barbara Cohen Captures Four-Legged Frolic A college art teacher once warned Barbara E. Cohen against becoming an abstract painter, advising her that only “realists” can support themselves through their art. […]
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Arts Briefs for July 3, 2025 through July 10, 2025
An Artistic Dialogue at Seashore Point Gallery Anne Flash and John Koch met in a class at Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill around 10 years ago. The […]
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Arts Briefs for June 26, 2025 through July 3, 2025
Art, Music, and Food for a Cause Art for the Border, an Outer Cape collective of artists and activists, will host an art giveaway and Latin dance party at the […]
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Arts Briefs for June 19, 2025 through June 26, 2025
Electric Six Still Wants to Take You to a ‘Gay Bar’ It’s a safe bet that when Electric Six plays at Provincetown Town Hall this weekend, the song “Gay […]
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Arts Briefs for June 12, 2025 through June 19, 2025
Art That Celebrates Power and Resilience Izzy Berdan, curator of an exhibition at the Provincetown Commons this month commemorating Juneteenth, has strong opinions about “America’s second Independence Day.” The Texas […]
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Arts Briefs for June 5, 2025 through June 12, 2025
Diving Into a Summer of Free Movies The Provincetown Film Society is teaming up with the Crown & Anchor for free poolside movie screenings every Tuesday night this summer. The […]
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Arts Briefs for May 29, 2025 through June 5, 2025
A New Act Three in Provincetown There were no arts classes in the schools that Nan LeClaire-Hirst went to when she was growing up, she says, and she didn’t attend […]
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Arts Briefs for May 22, 2025 through May 29, 2025
A New Mystery Series Provincetown author Jeannette De Beauvoir is best known for her mysteries set in the town she’s called home for 20 years. But before she wrote 10 […]
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Arts Briefs for May 15, 2025 through May 22, 2025
Anne Cowie Follows the Light There is something special about the light on the Outer Cape, where a thin spit of land is surrounded by water. Attempting to capture that […]