When you walk into the Urvashi Vaid and Kate Clinton Community Room at the Provincetown Commons, you see a collection of jackets and shirts hanging on the walls. The 25 […]
Arts & Minds
Celebrating the creative and sometimes quirky culture of the Outer Cape.
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RETROSPECTIVE
Through Andrew de Lory’s Viewfinder
The photographer’s 60-year career started at Nauset High School
If you were to flip through Andrew de Lory’s portrait photographs, you might come face to face with Prince Charles playing polo or Odetta, eyes closed, serenading an unseen crowd […]
MAXIMALIST
The Totality of Julia Salinger
A multidisciplinary artist who doesn’t hold back
A maximalist by nature, Julia Salinger indulges in all that she finds curious and delightful. She’s a voracious collector of paper ephemera and a compulsive creator. “I basically live inside […]
FILM FESTIVAL
Ahmed Ibrahim’s Work Refuses Categorization
The director’s A Chair for Her will premiere at the Provincetown Film Festival
Under the pergola of his friend’s house on Bangs Street in Provincetown, filmmaker Ahmed Ibrahim sits hunched over his MacBook typing an email to his manager. Bo, a border collie-black […]
FILM FESTIVAL PREVIEW
A Time for Shots in the Dark
Provincetown gears up for a big-screen celebration
These days, in the world of “theatrical” movies — films screened in theaters — surviving and thriving are challenging at best. That’s certainly true for the Provincetown International Film Festival, […]
Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for June 6, 2024 through June 13, 2024
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 […]
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 […]
