Phone. Wallet. Keys. A modicum of dignity. An ocean of guilt. For me, the humiliation of Bobby Chandler beating me up in fourth grade. For her, a grandmother’s dictum that […]
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Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for December 26, 2024 through January 2, 2025
John Shuman Is Looking for Answers Wellfleet-based actor and memoirist John Shuman has a lot of questions about the important things we often take for granted, like laughter, music, and […]
CROSSWORD #58
Winter Wonderland
ARTISTS
Variations on a Theme
A Greenwich Village exhibit invites us into Pat de Groot’s studio by the sea
The gallery at the New York Studio School on West 8th Street was empty of people when I visited Provincetown artist Pat de Groot’s posthumous survey exhibition, “Sea Smoke,” the […]
THE PRESENT MOMENT
Building a Home and a Community Through Art
Fred Boak and Naomi Rush compiled their art collection by gift-giving in a ‘late romance’
In a sunny room of her Orleans house, Naomi Rush begins a tour of her art collection with a black-and-white linocut by Joyce Johnson titled Salt Pond — Winter. Rush’s […]
THE THOUGHT FOX
A Life in Poetry With No ‘Excess Stuff’
Keith Althaus discusses his past, process, and pursuit of the perfect line
“Pick a chair,” says poet Keith Althaus, welcoming me to his house on Shore Road in North Truro. He and his wife, Susan Baker, have lived in the house since […]
Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for December 19, 2024 through December 26, 2024
Donald Beal’s Painterly Drama An exhibition of paintings by Donald Beal now at the Wellfleet Adult Community Center (715 Old King’s Hwy.) displays three bodies of work: landscapes of grand, […]
AN ARTIST’S LEGACY
A Family History, Recorded in Christmas Cards
Barbara Haven Malicoat was ‘the best grandmother ever’
Sculptor Breon Dunigan, sitting at her kitchen table in Truro, remembers the Christmastime haircuts well. She and her siblings and cousins — the six granddaughters of Provincetown artist Barbara Haven […]
CONNECTIONS
Bringing Artists ‘Side by Side’ in Orleans
A joint effort by two galleries fosters new dialogues
An exhibition currently on view in Orleans combines works from two galleries: Orleans Modern Art and Garvey Rita Art & Antiques. Titled “Side by Side,” the show draws aesthetic connections […]
’TIS THE SEASON
Artists and Gallerists Deck the Halls
Small works shows offer holiday gifts
Inside his studio gallery tucked into Provincetown’s Whalers Wharf, artist Gaston Lacombe is embellishing a tree. Not a Christmas tree, but a tree painted on a large panel in bright […]
ART
Techspressionism Rocks the Boat
Cape and Canadian artists create moving images for an oceanic exhibition
Forty years ago, artist Karen LaFleur realized that she could make designs using a dot matrix printer. She painstakingly typed alternating Xs, Os, symbols, and blank spaces on her computer […]
MEMOIR
Sebastian Junger Considers the Inevitable Precipice
In My Time of Dying is an aneurysm-spurred trip through the cosmos
In My Time of Dying is like Schrödinger’s cat. Until you open the book, author Sebastian Junger is both alive and dead. But in the famous quantum theory thought experiment, […]
MEMOIR
Cher Tells Her Remarkable, Resilient Truth
Part one of the star’s story reveals the grit behind her reinventions
My mother was from Las Vegas. On one summer visit when I was 12, she took me to Ceasars Palace to see Cher in concert. During the encore, Cher ran […]
Arts Briefs Dec. 12 – 19, 2024
Catie Flynn Does What She Loves Catie Flynn makes her living “the Cape Cod way” — that is, she says, doing “whatever works.” Originally from Harwich, she now lives in […]
ICONOGRAPHY
Provincetown’s Wharves as Motif
Where artists as well as fishermen embarked on risky ventures
The wharf in all its stages — from bustling workplace to burnt timbers — has seen generations of artists setting up easels to capture the arrival and departure of schooners […]
