Luis Rodríguez Noa, a young Cuban painter and graphic artist, won first prize in his country’s National Contest of Posters in 2005 for a witty entry commemorating the 400th anniversary […]
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Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for February 15, 2024 through February 22, 2024
Celebrating the Music of Irving Berlin For baritone and voice instructor John Murelle, entertainment and “enlightenment” go hand in hand. Accompanied by pianist Chris Morris and guest singer Johanna Stipetic, […]
PORTALS
In Poland With Abraham Storer
In a solo show, the painter finds flashes of recognition in the unfamiliar
Abraham Storer was standing in a cemetery in Gliwice, Poland in the fall of 2020. He wasn’t there to mourn but to paint — positioned with easel, canvas, and palette […]
INDIE SCREEN
Oscar Gets an International Itch
Three subtitled films are up for Best Picture
Making a film about the Holocaust is always problematic. How do you create something that properly represents or explains an atrocity so enormous it defies comprehension? The Nazis systematically exterminated […]
SPIRALS
A Poet’s Prose
Lindsay Miles is using her FAWC fellowship to write outside her comfort zone
Lindsay Miles, one of this winter’s Fine Arts Work Center fellows, doesn’t feel comfortable calling herself a writer. “I think I’ll be 80 and I’ll still be unsure of the […]
TRAGIC LITTLE SOBS
The Internal Contradictions of Avigayl Sharp
A FAWC fiction fellow navigates between the real and the absurd
A wave of doubt rolls through fiction writer Avigayl Sharp moments before she meets the page. “Writing is scary for me because I go in with absolutely nothing,” she says. […]
Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for February 8, 2024 through February 15, 2024
A New Executive Director at Twenty Summers Bill Reihl has been visiting Provincetown for decades. Some of his favorite memories from those visits, he says, are of events at the […]
ARTISTS
Joan Hopkins Coughlin Works From Memory
Her landscapes and still lifes reflect on her times in Wellfleet and Jamaica
Joan Hopkins Coughlin’s Wellfleet home is perched on a hill overlooking Duck Creek, a subject she’s continually returned to in her paintings. By the door in her kitchen hangs a […]
TELEVISION
The Curse Tells Unnerving Truths
The show on Paramount Plus paints a brutal portrait of two newlywed gentrifiers
The Curse, the latest wild-card creation from director Nathan Fielder now streaming on Paramount Plus, is a show about the two worst people in the world: newlyweds Whitney and Asher […]
BOOKS
Robert Jay Lifton: Connoisseur of Hope
In his 13th book, the celebrated psychiatrist forges meaning from catastrophe
Karl Marx famously said, “The philosophers have hitherto only interpreted the world in various ways. The point however is to change it.” But what if interpreting the world is precisely […]
INTER-MEDIATE
Jeff Gibbons’s Root Balls, Tiny Chairs, and Talking Rocks
An artist conjures surreal worlds that evoke whimsy and worry
Inside his studio off Pearl Street, Jeff Gibbons is mulling over his latest work, Orion’s Belty Button. The earthen sculpture, a helmet-size hornbeam root ball, rests on a wooden pedestal, […]
POETRY
After This
When I die You shall set me free For I would like to be clover. Deep-rooted clover with a few lucky leaves And small white flowers That pop up overnight […]
Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for February 1, 2024 through February 8, 2024
The Bourbon Sunset Trio in Harmony “The joke is that ‘Tequila Sunrise’ was taken,” says banjo player Lynda Shuster, one of the three musicians who make up Bourbon Sunset along […]
LIFETIMES
Peter Hutchinson Through the Decades
The artist’s work, spanning more than 70 years, is a provocative meditation on nature
Peter Hutchinson stands in his studio flipping through photos from past projects. He turns a page, and there he is — tiptoeing around the caldera of a volcano, dropping crumbs […]
IN THE ARCHIVES
Notes From a Native Daughter
Margaret Mayo, the subject of a Henry Hensche portrait, wrote her own early history
On the first floor of the Provincetown Public Library, in the magazine section, is Henry Hensche’s Portrait of Margaret Mayo Expecting Motherhood. The woman’s eyes are pained and sad yet […]
