BREWSTER — The room is abuzz as everyone waits to hear what their parts will be in the upcoming show. Young actors, ages 13 to 18, sit on folding chairs […]
Arts & Minds
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INDIE SCREEN
Reflections in a Golden Idol
Judging the winners and losers on Oscar night
This year, there are more than a few shoo-ins to win Academy Awards. The show itself, which is still the most glamorous spectacle of the year on good old broadcast […]
ART EXHIBITS
Anina Major Finds ‘No Vacancy in Paradise’
In her FAWC exhibit, she explores cultures transformed by tourism
Provincetown in winter has been a different experience for Fine Arts Work Center visual arts fellow Anina Major. From Nassau in the Bahamas, Major is interested in the sense of […]
MUSIC
Tim Eriksen Performs a Wide World of Music Traditions
But the eclectic artist feels right at home in New England
Where others only hear sounds, Tim Eriksen hears music. “I’ve always been interested in the most elemental sounds,” he says. “It could be train sounds, as well as crickets and […]
AT THE LIBRARY
Circe: A Modern Retelling
Madeline Miller’s novel is both familiar and subversive
As a child my love of reading sent me into a wide range of book-related obsessions that oscillated from the common to the esoteric. The first and most enduring of […]
BOOK REVIEW
Family Papers and the History of Sephardic Jews
The story of one family spans the globe and a catastrophic century
Two tragedies have shaped the fortunes of the family of Sa’adi Besalel Ashkenazi a-Levi, an iconoclast and printer: the catastrophic fire in Salonica in 1917 and the Nazi Holocaust. Readers […]
Arts Briefs and Listings
Arts Briefs and Listings for Feb. 6 through Feb. 12
Jennifer Moller at Higgins Gallery at 4Cs The Higgins Gallery at Cape Cod Community College and director Nathalie Ferrier are holding a reception for Jennifer Moller’s show, “pools, mighty plenitude […]
Winter Wednesdays
Eight weeks of free drop-in classes, with free rides and child care
Winter Wednesdays runs from Feb. 5 through March 25: eight Wednesday evenings from 6 to 8 at the Provincetown Schools at 12 Winslow St. Classes are free, with no registration […]
EXHIBITIONS
Raul De Lara Finds His Roots in Art
With a show at FAWC, he sends a message home
In Raul De Lara’s studio at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, there’s a striking discrepancy between the maturity and polish of the sculpture on display and the youth […]
READINGS
Esther Lin Circles the Globe in Her Poetry
The work center fellow writes of destinations within and far away
Esther Lin’s poetry is full of places — Alexandria, Va.; Mozambique; Madagascar; Hong Kong; Cape Town — all locations from her family’s complex legacy of migration. “It’s like I have […]
READINGS
You Can’t Take the Texas out of Callie Collins
A FAWC fellow re-imagines history from outsiders’ point of view
Callie Collins is that rare species of writer who exudes sheer enjoyment in her work. As she sits on the sunny porch of the Canteen in Provincetown, describing the projects […]
LIFE AND DEATH
Dawn Walsh Empowers the Living
Her focus is an enlightened approach to death and dying
“I’ve had many lives,” Dawn Walsh says, and she’s not exaggerating. She’s been a kindergarten teacher and a massage therapist, worked with nonprofits, studied creative writing. Having moved to the […]
Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs and Listings for Jan. 30 through Feb. 5
Catfish Row Sings Out at WHAT The Metropolitan Opera’s new production (by James Robinson) of George and Ira Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess, set on Catfish Row in Charleston, S.C., with […]
THEATER
The Curtain Rises on Provincetown Theater’s 2020 Season
A look at the year ahead with Artistic Director David Drake
“It was deliberate,” David Drake, the artistic director of the Provincetown Theater, says of his schedule of new productions for 2020, his third year at the company. “Doing this season […]
INDIE SCREEN
Oscar’s (and Netflix’s) Primal Stream
All that glitters is not art
I approached Joker (now available for streaming and on DVD) with a fair measure of trepidation. The film, a rethought origin story of one of Batman’s most notorious villains, has […]
