Long and white, prone to blowing like a whale’s salty plume it’s the first thing you notice: his panache, his dare his disguise. And then the eyes a quiet blue, […]
Arts & Minds
Celebrating the creative and sometimes quirky culture of the Outer Cape.
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POETRY
The Thing Itself
After Dylan Thomas
It was really like that. Autumn brown night washed the avenues and we talked of nothing important, just power and pleasure and paradise. Nothing was, but the slope of her […]
BOOKS
Sociologist Allison Pugh Warns Against ‘Heedless Technophilia’
In The Last Human Job, she explores the value of being seen
Almost half of the four-year-olds in Utah are enrolled in preschool online. They watch animated videos and sing songs to learn “pre-reading,” which education administrators in the Beehive State apparently […]
Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for July 4, 2024 through July 11, 2024
Stories of a Gay Mormon Dad Claybourne Elder has a shorter commute to perform in Provincetown this year than he did last summer. The Broadway and television star is spending […]
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 […]
CABARET
Ari Shapiro on the Art of Listening
The NPR journalist is coming to Provincetown to sing and tell stories
In Ari Shapiro’s cabaret show Thank You for Listening, at the Gifford House in Provincetown this weekend, he’ll sing songs he’s never performed for an audience before and tell personal […]
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 […]
CABARET
Kate Baldwin’s Close Calls
The Broadway star kicks off John McDaniel’s Post Office series with an intimate show
Musician John McDaniel first accompanied two-time Tony nominee Kate Baldwin last year on an Alaska cruise. Now he’s the force behind her Provincetown debut this weekend in a show titled Sing […]
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 […]
Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for June 27, 2024 through July 4, 2024
Glisson, Reedy, and Salas Return to Alden Gallery Over the years, an exhibition for the artists Robert Glisson, Linda Reedy, and Anne Salas has become the summer season opening tradition […]
CROSSWORD #53
Roaring With Pride
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 […]
OFF BROADWAY
Betty Buckley Is in Focus
The Tony-winning actress and singer is coming to Provincetown Town Hall
Picture it: early ’90s, a cruise ship sailing down the coast of Mexico. I was but a squirrely young thing on my first RSVP cruise rushing to the cabaret room […]
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 […]
DRAG DESK
Dina Martina Is in a Good Place
In her 20th Provincetown season, a rebel imparts an absurd brand of happiness
Dina Martina says she was born nine months early. “I looked like a poached egg,” she confides. Her grandmother looks just like Colonel Sanders. “Beautiful, hirsute lady,” says Martina. “She […]
