On Center Gallery (352 Commercial St.) Katie Faria from Middleborough looks thoughtfully at Lorraine DeProspo’s Kiss the Day. Mounted on the wall at On Center Gallery between two other paintings […]
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Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for June 27, 2024 through July 4, 2024
Glisson, Reedy, and Salas Return to Alden Gallery Over the years, an exhibition for the artists Robert Glisson, Linda Reedy, and Anne Salas has become the summer season opening tradition […]
CROSSWORD #53
Roaring With Pride
PORTRAITS
Kathryn Engberg Forsakes the Male Gaze
The painter pairs technical mastery with cultural commentary
Madonna is depressed. Not because — as in her appearances as the Virgin Mary since the Renaissance — she knows that her kid, the baby Jesus, is going to be […]
OFF BROADWAY
Betty Buckley Is in Focus
The Tony-winning actress and singer is coming to Provincetown Town Hall
Picture it: early ’90s, a cruise ship sailing down the coast of Mexico. I was but a squirrely young thing on my first RSVP cruise rushing to the cabaret room […]
HAT TRICK
Three Provincetown Painters Display Whimsy, Masculinity, and Identity
Recent works by Towle, Wilmoth, and Mikula will fill the walls of the Commons
Three Provincetown painters — Trevor Mikula, Josh Wilmoth, and Andy Towle — will be showing new works at the Provincetown Commons starting next week. The concurrent shows open Tuesday, June […]
DRAG DESK
Dina Martina Is in a Good Place
In her 20th Provincetown season, a rebel imparts an absurd brand of happiness
Dina Martina says she was born nine months early. “I looked like a poached egg,” she confides. Her grandmother looks just like Colonel Sanders. “Beautiful, hirsute lady,” says Martina. “She […]
IMAGES THAT BITE
Camera in a Cage: A 50-Year Retrospective
Stephen Aiken’s photographs of Joseph Beuys’s 1974 performance are a negotiation of distances
There’s a coyote about town. Several, in fact. One is the shadow you see disappearing into the dunes off Route 6, gone in such an acute flash you wonder if […]
Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for June 20, 2024 through June 27, 2024
A Musical Trip to Planet Bitch In the late 1990s, Bitch and Animal, a self-styled punk dyke duo with what Bitch says was an “otherworldly connection,” played a summer of […]
BEYOND REASON
In Amy Arbus’s Latest Images, Glimpses of Life Before the Fall
The unseen motions between moments in circus and burlesque
Amy Arbus did not take photographs of circus performers until a year ago. But as soon as she started, she thought, “I know that I can do something interesting here.” […]
THEATER
Vaguely Creepy Things
At WHAT, Smart asks why one would choose machines as caregivers
It’s so annoying, isn’t it? Aging parents, needing help, expecting you to just drop everything and take care of them when you’ve got so much going on. What’s an American […]
FILMMAKER ON THE EDGE
Lonely Are the Brave
Andrew Haigh, director of All of Us Strangers, is coming to Provincetown
Queer cinema has been an important presence at the Provincetown International Film Festival since it began in 1999. Several past Filmmaker on the Edge award winners, such as Christine Vachon […]
FILM FESTIVAL
Joel Kim Booster Knows How the World Works
The winner of PIFF’s Next Wave Award takes superficiality seriously
Joel Kim Booster was squatting on the corner of Carver and Bradford in Provincetown, wearing just a jockstrap. He held his phone to his ear. He had just been at […]
THEATER
Betrayal Comes Back to Wellfleet
Harbor Stage opens season with a revival of the Harold Pinter play
Jonathan Fielding admits he was only a casual fan of Harold Pinter’s classic drama Betrayal when he took the role of Jerry, who’s having an affair with his best friend’s wife. […]
Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for June 13, 2024 through June 20, 2024
Poet Laureate Ada Limón Can Imagine If you close your eyes to consider the bones, sinews, and arteries composing this flexed arm of sand and land, you might see the […]
