Arts & Minds
Celebrating the creative and sometimes quirky culture of the Outer Cape.
Browse all Arts & Minds stories below or dive into a topic:
PUBLIC ART
Andrew Mowbray Pursues the Unpredictable
The Provincetown Public Art Foundation’s most recent project is a collaboration with the wind
Every Wednesday, Andrew Mowbray travels from Boston to Provincetown, where he finds a drawing produced in collaboration with the wind and his sculpture Tempest Prognosticator. “I get to open this […]
POSTCARDS
Painting a Somber Summer Vacationland
Jamie O’Neill finds something modern in nostalgic scenes
Jamie O’Neill first became fascinated by stories of the past while growing up on Nantucket. Now a father, he is still pulled by history as he turns his art to […]
EARS WIDE OPEN
Poetry for the People, by the People
A spontaneous evening at the People’s Poetry Parlor
On a mid-August night, amateur and published poets, locals and tourists, pour into the Somerset House Inn in downtown Provincetown and take seats on an array of couches and deep […]
BOOKS
Raising the Spirits of the Living and Dead
Adam Berry’s book on coping with grief
Adam Berry arrived in Provincetown 20 years ago as a Boston Conservatory sophomore to star in the Provincetown Theater Company’s production of Hair. An Alabama native, he didn’t know anything about […]
THE STROLL
Provincetown, Friday Night
Seen and heard on the weekly gallery walk
Berta Walker Gallery (208 Bradford St.) Last week there was a fishnet full of famous folk and local art lovers outside the East End galleries, but tonight it’s raining and […]
Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for September 7, 2023 through September 14, 2023
‘Word Suite’ Combines Poetry and Music Phoebe Carrai says that her cello, which is named Giovanni, has a voice of its own and when she plays, “it feels like a […]
GALLERIES
A Group Exhibition That Sizzles With Summertime Energy
Four highlights from ‘Summer Escape,’ a season-long exhibition in two parts at Gaa
Gaa Gallery’s current exhibition presents the work of 17 contemporary artists, many of whom have never before been shown in Provincetown. Curated by Gavin Kennedy, the exhibition offers materially rich […]
WORDS
Tyne and the Town
Emmy and Tony-winning actress Tyne Daly in three evenings of benefit readings
Tyne Daly might be best known to a certain generation of audiences for her costarring role as down-to-earth cop and working mom Mary Beth Lacey in the mid-1980s television show […]
ARTISTS
Monica Rozak Is Always Looking Up
The Eastham artist ponders her place in the world by painting the sky
Monica Rozak often walks along the bluff by Marconi Beach when the sun is coming up or going down. “I’m really drawn to the sky,” she says. Her landscape paintings, […]
ARTISTS
A Language of Dualities
Joe Diggs paints the many meanings of history
The painter Joe Diggs has had ancestors living on Cape Cod since the 1800s. His step-great-grandfather, Gideon Gomes, was a Cape Verdean free man of color who bought the large […]
RADIO
Letting the Music Roll Over You
The uncommon freedom of being a WOMR disc jockey
Every week, almost 40 volunteer DJs file in and out of the broadcast studio of WOMR, Cape Cod’s only community radio station, where they create their shows. This summer, I […]
Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for August 31, 2023 through September 7, 2023
Women in Music Take the Outer Cape The 9th annual Cape Cod Women’s Music Festival takes the stage at Payomet Performing Arts Center (29 Old Dewline Road, North Truro) on […]
WORKSHOP
‘Attention Is the Beginning of Devotion’
Experiencing ‘re-wilding’ in a Castle Hill workshop
TRURO — On a reed-covered stretch of sand jutting out into Pamet Harbor, five students and their instructor dip their natural brushes — a broken-in-half reed, a corner of a […]
JAZZ
A Voice That Can Bring Fever Dreams
Downbeat’s vocalist of the year Cécile McLorin Salvant comes to town
Cécile McLorin Salvant, a three-time winner of the Grammy for Best Jazz Vocal Album, will be performing at Payomet in Truro this weekend, and jazz fans on the Outer Cape […]
