Jerome Greene paints what he sees. “I paint from my life,” he says. And although he grew up in Connecticut, studied in North Dakota, and toured New England as a […]
Arts & Minds
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CABARET
James Jackson Jr. Likes to Change People’s Minds
The Broadway star favors the unexpected in music and social activism
Singer-actor James Jackson Jr. doesn’t take well to other people’s preconceptions about what he should and shouldn’t be doing. He’s turned defying expectations into something of a trademark in his […]
BOOKS
Jessica Valenti Is Armed With Fact and Fury
In a new book, fueled by outrage, she takes on the war on reproductive rights
Shortly after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June 2022, Jessica Valenti began tracking the effects of the court’s ruling. Fueled by outrage, she decided to write […]
THEATER
All Things Must Fade
A new play by Meryl Cohn goes deep and dark
The cottage, an Airbnb in Provincetown, with its faded floral-print couch, unreliable landline phone, and feebly locking doors, feels like the set of a horror film, says Jojo (Susan Lambert). […]
REVELATIONS
For a New Album, Women Are the Muse
In Silver City, Amy Helm turns secrets into songs
For her fourth solo album, Silver City, Amy Helm had a muse: a young fan. “The first time I met her, she was in the deepest, darkest throes of addiction,” […]
POETRY
Stillman’s Gym: Which Kelly Do Youse Want?
Blessed be the Lord, my rock, who teaches my hands to battle and my fingers to fight. —Psalm 144 Phone call comes in: Lemme speak with Kelly. Which Kelly do […]
Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for October 10, 2024 through October 17, 2024
Diane Robertson’s Ways of Seeing Diane Robertson’s watercolor paintings — almost all of which are based on her own photographs — are currently on view in the Great Pond Gallery […]
STUDIO VISIT
Megan Hinton Finds the Throughline
How a studio rich in history opened the way for an artist’s more dimensional way of working
Megan Hinton’s first career survey show at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum reveals an artist whose work is instantly recognizable for its strong use of line, a line that […]
THE SONGWRITER
For Monica Rizzio, Music Is Everything
The Washashore Cowgirl says she’s here to stay
Monica Rizzio is singing something new. Her strong, sure voice fills the room; the guitar in her hands sounds bigger than it is. It creates its own kind of gravity: […]
PAINTING
The Value of Getting the Color Right
A painter follows the light back to Henry Hensche’s studio
Reggie Cabral bought the first landscape painting Hilda Neily sold in Provincetown over 50 years ago with $100 worth of bar change. Cabral, who owned the Atlantic House from 1949 […]
RADIO
Jeremy Hobson Is the Man in the Middle
From a Truro basement, he broadcasts live on 419 stations
At his house in the Truro woods, journalist and radio host Jeremy Hobson sits at a desk in his unfinished basement. The air smells of exposed wood and cement floors. […]
POETRY
Two Poems by Marilyn A. Johnson
The current ghost broom clean the measure of absence in the mud room no mud scuffed baseboards rusted sinks house we have worn you out mother locks the last door […]
Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for October 3, 2024 through October 10, 2024
A Very Gorey Dracula Five decades ago, illustrator and writer Edward Gorey channeled his fascination with the macabre to the stage with set and costume designs for an adaptation of […]
LAND MATTERS
An Artist Gets to the Truth of This Place
Pete Hocking turns experience into gesture
When Pete Hocking wanders in the dunes of Provincetown and Wellfleet, he stands quietly and listens to the ocean. He feels the cool air coming off the Atlantic, the heat […]
THE OUTSIDER
Father Figures
Behind the faces Cassandra Complex paints
The faces, all handsome, all angular, none smiling, stare right back at the viewer. The way the paintings combine glamour and danger, they might be models’ portraits or mug shots […]
