It officially starts on Columbus Day, doesn’t it? Women’s Week may have aged a bit over its 35 years, and there seem to be fewer lesbian inns and hangouts these […]
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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 […]
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PorchFest 2019 Draws a Crowd
Hundreds enjoy fifth annual downtown music festival
Photographs by Jacob Greenberg, taken on Saturday, August 24 The acoustic duo Cumberland, Jim Rohrer and Lynda Shuster, played bluegrass and traditional Appalachian tunes. Blue Dog brought jazz to […]
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 […]
