Lee McColgan and A House Restored The first thing Lee McColgan wants you to know is that preserving an 18th-century New England house is not like an episode of HGTV’s […]
Arts & Minds
Celebrating the creative and sometimes quirky culture of the Outer Cape.
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PRIDE
The Fantastical Spaces of Phil Jimenez
A comics artist pencils and inks a way out
Comics artist and writer Phil Jimenez was alone a lot when he was growing up in Long Beach, Calif. “Drawing was a way to entertain myself,” he says. Known for […]
PERFORMANCE
The Fundamentals of Vibration
JU-EH explores voice and reinvents opera at Twenty Summers
Imagine the dreaded Zoom call: monotonous droning, endless PowerPoint slides, pairs of eyes dissociating in cyberspace. Now, imagine the opposite, or at least an absurdist doppelgänger. Here’s one vision: A […]
PAINTING
Arthur V. Diehl’s Restless Imagination
The early 20th-century artist found himself most settled working in Provincetown
Born in 1870, Arthur V. Diehl emigrated from England to the United States in his early 20s and hustled throughout his life to earn a living as a painter. In […]
RETROSPECTIVE
Marian Roth’s Obsession With Time Never Stops
Her current show looks back on 40 years in Provincetown
“I could turn this gallery into a pinhole camera,” says Marian Roth. Her retrospective “Then and Now — Reflecting on Forty Years” is at On Center Gallery in Provincetown and […]
POETRY
Lilacs
Walking up our road On a chilly April morning I encountered two locals Did you see those daffodils? The tall one asked by way of greeting One day they were […]
POETRY
The Bandit
My grandfather always said that living is like licking honey from a thorn. —Louis Adamic The raccoon boldly strode through the garden. Attuned to my presence she merely slowed, turned […]
THEATER
Mitchell Anderson’s Life After Hollywood
From TV star to gay-rights ‘poster child’ to Atlanta chef
Most of the people who’ve seen Mitchell Anderson’s one-man show, You Better Call Your Mother, were already familiar with at least one part of his autobiographical story. Anderson, 62, has […]
Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for May 30, 2024 through June 6, 2024
All That Jazz The tenth annual Provincetown Cabaret Festival takes place June 3 to 9 and celebrates “The Golden Era of Night Clubs.” The weekend includes master classes, awards ceremonies, […]
PAINTING
Studies in the Everyday Objects That Tether Us
Boats, houses, matchbooks, cans, and tea bags float with feeling in Traci Harmon-Hay’s work
“My work is always telling a story,” says Traci Harmon-Hay. Pieces from her new series, “Hovering Boats,” will be exhibited from May 24 to June 17 at Farm Projects in […]
HISTORY
Provincetown’s Forum 49 Was Born in Anguish
Seventy-five years later, echoes of an effort ‘to relate all the arts’
Following a decade marked by the horrors of war and on the cusp of another that would secure America’s global ascendancy, Provincetown’s Forum 49 was more than an art exhibition […]
IN THE STUDIO
Sarah Dineen Meditates on One Shape
Showing that amplitude can be found in austerity
In 2020, Sarah Dineen unearthed a 19-square-foot painting that she had made as a graduate student at the School of Visual Arts in New York. “I call it my adolescent […]
GROUP SHOW
‘Departures’ Pushes the Envelope
An international juried show at the Cape Cod Museum of Art breaks from convention
Artist and gallerist Nick Lawrence was the sole juror for the show “Departures,” currently on exhibit at the Cape Cod Museum of Art in Dennis. Lawrence selected 53 works from […]
BOOKS
Weaving the Yarns of an American Family
Philosopher John Kaag’s American Bloods is a mixed pleasure
Philosophy professor John Kaag has a lot of fun in his latest book, American Bloods: The Untamed Dynasty That Shaped a Nation. He tells the stories of selected members of […]
Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for May 23, 2024 through May 30, 2024
Jay Sefton Confronts the Past in Unreconciled When Jay Sefton was 13 and living in a town on the outskirts of Philadelphia, he won the starring role in a Catholic […]
