A group of ex-voto paintings line the wall of a hallway leading into Donna Flax’s studio at her home in Wellfleet. She collected the paintings in Mexico, which she began […]
Arts & Minds
Celebrating the creative and sometimes quirky culture of the Outer Cape.
Browse all Arts & Minds stories below or dive into a topic:
OUTSIDERS
Bringing a Legendary Happening Back to Life
Billy Hough restages Andy Warhol’s ‘Exploding Plastic Inevitable’ for a new generation
This spring marks the 20th anniversary of Provincetown singer and songwriter Billy Hough’s show “Scream Along With Billy,” in which he and his musical partner, Susan Goldberg, perform entire albums […]
BIG PICTURE
Feeling Yellow
Dee Shippelhute works with severe contrasts and her son’s favorite color
Dee Shippelhute, an artist living in Chatham, has twice traveled to China to study painting. In 2008, she had a residency at Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts in Tianjin and […]
Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for May 8, 2025 through May 15, 2025
Taking It From the Top at Schoolhouse Gallery After a long winter filled with anxiety for many over current events, spring feels particularly welcome this year. The hopeful feelings of […]
CROSSWORD #62
Off to the Races
VIGNETTES
Art Leaves the Gallery for the Parlor
At the Vorse house, paintings see anew amid traces of history
Gene Tartaglia recalls a 2022 exhibition of Salvatore Del Deo’s artwork at the Mary Heaton Vorse house as revelatory. “It kind of shook the art community up a bit,” he […]
HER STORY
Clara Schumann’s Romances
A classical concert of ‘mavericks’ brings a hidden master to light
The obituary of Clara Schumann, who died on May 20, 1896 at age 76, was published on June 1 of that year in The Musical Times and Singing-Class Circular. The […]
ART AND ACCESS
Are You a Semiquincentennialist or a Creative Individual?
Artists sniff the political winds in federal and state grants
Katie Castagno of Eastham has finished the last bits of recording for her album, Our Queer Elders, to be released this summer. The songs are about people in history who […]
FICTION
Circus Peanuts
It’s just that I was missing my father. His guilty-yet-triumphant toddler smile when he finished off a brand-new pack of the Circus Peanuts we both loved and were supposed to […]
DREAM STATE
Poetry in Motion
Monique Brunet-Weinmann’s new book, Exil, recounts anxious times and a migration story
As a child, reared close to the Atlantic Ocean in Brittany, the westernmost region of France, Monique Brunet-Weinmann excelled at reciting poetry from memory. “Pretty soon,” she says, “I started […]
BIG PICTURE
The Suggestiveness of Red
Bob Henry does a lot with one color
Wellfleet’s Bob Henry has been painting and drawing for 70 years, but he’s not the kind of artist who makes the same painting over and over again. There are some […]
Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for May 1, 2025 through May 8, 2025
What Dreams Are Made Of Currently on view at the Cape Cod Museum of Art (60 Hope Lane, Dennis), “Dreamscapes and Inner Worlds” includes 81 works chosen by curator Joe […]
CROSSWORD #62
Off to the Races
SMALL TOWN SCENES
Provincetown in Miniature
Elizabeth Kirby evokes the feeling of a place in intricate detail
Commercial Street in Provincetown is a theatrical place. In the summer, it’s filled with drag queens, street performers, and colorful characters. Similarly, many of its buildings embody outsize personalities. There’s […]
FUNDING FEARS
Local Arts Leaders Brace for Federal Demands and Cuts
Grants for museums, arts, and humanities are threatened, as is private giving
The Provincetown Art Association and Museum (PAAM) was supposed to hear in March whether it had been awarded a $140,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) for […]
