Student Art Celebrates Learning This year’s Provincetown IB Schools annual exhibition at the Commons (46 Bradford St., Provincetown) doubles as a celebration of the 10th anniversary of the school’s adoption […]
Arts & Minds
Celebrating the creative and sometimes quirky culture of the Outer Cape.
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AN ACTIVATION
The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of
Leah Dyjak’s queer inquiry into George Bryant’s hoarded art
To visit the lot between 471 Commercial St. and Angel Foods in Provincetown is to stand on a precipice of potential energy. Here, where Cape Cod Bay licks the sea […]
WRITERS
Grand Stories Told From the Periphery of Loss
In Grace Chao’s worlds, a single event can change the trajectory of a life
Something goes terribly wrong for one family in Grace Chao’s short story “Family Travel.” A train hits a couple’s small blue car — stopped on the train tracks going from […]
ARTISTS
In Dialogue With the Past
The cerebral meets the emotional in Micha Patiniott’s work
Micha Patiniott can find the sensuality in a contorted body just as easily as he finds it in the movement of planets. His dreamlike minimalist paintings are united by “this […]
QUEER ‘I’
The Shameless Plan for a ‘New Fire Island’
An idea for a ‘gay paradise’ provokes ire — and unflattering reflections
If you’ve heard of it, then you probably already hate it. You’ve groaned and eye-rolled about it. So has the Provincetown Business Guild: in an Instagram post, the Guild wrote, […]
Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for March 7, 2024 through March 14, 2024
Áine Minogue Plays Harp From the Heart Born and raised in Borrisokane, County Tipperary, Ireland, Áine Minogue says that she grew up surrounded by traditional Irish music. Scattered throughout her […]
PHOTOGRAPHY
The Decisive Moments of Constantine Manos
An exhibit looks at decades of work by one of the masters of the art
Two men kneel in prayer in a modest church, one shielding his face from a light perhaps only he can see. A single note played by a group of classical […]
SEEING DOUBLE
Zeinab Shahidi Marnani’s Tricks of the Light
At FAWC, art that makes us question what we see
Zeinab Shahidi Marnani’s studio on Pearl Street in Provincetown is dimly lit. In one corner sits a lounge chair with yellow pillows on it. A desk in the middle of […]
POETRY
Hopkins’ Tempests
I was living off turtles, birds, mollusks, and wild pigs and wanted to live on the Isle of Devils forever. The Governor sentenced me to death when I tried mutiny. […]
INDIE SCREEN
‘Barbenheimer’ Comes to the Academy Awards
How will the Oscars treat the movies that gave Hollywood back its mojo?
When Barbie and Oppenheimer, two big-budget Hollywood films, opened in theaters on the same day, July 21, 2023, they merged into a cultural phenomenon known by the portmanteau “Barbenheimer.” Finally, […]
Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for February 29, 2024 through March 7, 2024
‘Music for Peace’ Is Music Without Borders “Music for Peace” is the official title of a concert at the Christian Union Church (27 Shore Road, North Truro) at 3 p.m. […]
WINTER SCENES
Jim Broussard, Before the Light Changes
Painting Provincetown plein-air in winter
It’s 36 degrees on a February afternoon, and Provincetown painter Jim Broussard is standing with his easel on Tremont Street next to a melting pile of snow. “I got my […]
COVER UP
Bye Bye, Brown Paper
This winter on Commercial Street, some empty storefronts glow with color
“Anything is better than brown paper,” says Marc Guerrette, the brains and the brawn behind “Winter Windows,” a project that aims to remedy a problem that has been bothering Guerrette […]
IN FELLOWSHIP
A Story of Your Leaving
The poet J.J. Starr-McClain observes what remains in absence
J.J. Starr-McClain is a fifth-generation Chicagoan whose ’90s childhood was split between city and suburb, father and mother, steel and sky. In life and in her poetry, she still tends […]
LISTENING IN
Jeff Zinn Explores the History of Acting
In his podcast ‘Gurus,’ decades of theater training connect to what we’re currently streaming
Jeff Zinn, former artistic director at Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater and former managing director at Gloucester Stage Company, has spent his life in the theater. But a few years ago, […]
