Filmmaker, writer, visual artist, actor, and art collector. John Waters’s oeuvre may not be deep, but it certainly is wide. There is no confusing his artwork with anyone else’s, and […]
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MOVIES
Get Seated: Provincetown’s Film Festival Returns
Film Society chief Anne Hubbell welcomes locals and visitors back to the cinema
“It’s sort of a re-launch,” says Anne Hubbell, the Provincetown Film Society’s new executive director, of the upcoming 24th annual Provincetown International Film Festival. The event was shut down and […]
VOICES BIG AND LITTLE
The Sweet, Absurd, Yet Serious World of Jenny Slate
A Next Wave Award winner at this year’s film festival
After a wedding one night over a decade ago, Jenny Slate, the actress, comedian, and writer, packed into a hotel room with a bunch of friends and her now ex-husband […]
BOOK REVIEW
A Painter and Minister Embraces New Colors
In her memoir, the Rev. Anne Ierardi explores faith, her upbringing, and her sexual identity
In her memoir, Anne Ierardi chooses to paint in contrasting colors, literally and figuratively. “If you’re just Catholic, and you never walk into a Protestant church and have a conversation, […]
THEATER REVIEW
Straight White Men: A Spectacle of Privilege Deconstructed
WHAT opens its season with a play by Young Jean Lee
The current culture wars — in which straight white men are born privileged and BIPOC and queer minorities and women demand rights and representation — are all about power. The […]
RECOLLECTIONS
Portrait of a Provincetown Summer
Instead of a tip, a painter’s gift that lasted a lifetime
PROVINCETOWN — Millie Harris first came to town in the summer of 1932. That Memorial Day weekend, she took a job as a waitress at a coffee shop on Commercial […]
Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for June 9 through June 15, 2022
A Fresh Look at Nanno de Groot Pat and Nanno de Groot were an artist couple with deep Provincetown connections. Nanno de Groot’s work belongs to the mid-century. After Nanno […]
ARTISTS
Waxing Poetic on Community and Art
Michael David discusses his life as an artist and teacher
“Everything meaningful in my adult life has come from the relationship with this material,” says artist Michael David, referring to encaustic — a painting material composed of wax, damar varnish, […]
BOOK REVIEW
Refusing to Go Gentle Into The Kingdom of Sand
Andrew Holleran’s new novel is a latter-day queer classic
In his new novel, Andrew Holleran writes, in a scene set at a North Florida Thanksgiving dinner attended by older gay men, “There is a delicate undercurrent beneath get-togethers among […]
STITCHES
The Surprising Feminism of Men Who Knit
A show at Bowersock invites a look back at knitting’s nuanced history
John Crane answered the phone to find a friend in crisis — before you get too alarmed, it was a knitting crisis. Beth Brown-Reinsel, a celebrity within the insular world […]
PODCASTS
Painting Sound Into Stories
Sharon Mashihi’s audio narratives catch the intimacy of ‘real moments’
It seems as if everyone is a podcaster these days — everyone except maybe fiction writers. The format is perfectly suited to capturing comedians in conversation, delivering journalistic deep dives, […]
Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for June 2 through June 8, 2022
Prager and Bruder at 20 Summers With the protections offered by Roe v. Wade in peril, Twenty Summers offers a chance to reflect on how, almost a half century after […]
OUTSIDER ART
The Alternate Realities of Michael J. Andrews
The former town hall custodian explores local and celestial visions in his paintings
“I don’t claim to be an artist,” says Michael J. Andrews, sitting in an easy chair at his Provincetown condo. “There are artists out there, like Mrs. Packard, or all […]
THEATER REVIEW
Doing the Time Warp in Mae West’s ‘The Drag’
In the 1920s, having a gay old time was kind of complicated
“This side’s Friday,” vamp extraordinaire Mae West once quipped, pointing to her upper right thigh, then, pointing to her left thigh, “This side’s Sunday. Why don’t you come see me […]
LINE BREAK
Rereading History in Poetry
John Bonanni explores the truth of ‘Patient O’
When I was a kid, history class bored me. It was all dusty, musty dates, laws, and names. I have a hunch I’d have been more interested if I’d been […]
