There was something quite unexpected in Wellfleet on Friday evening, Feb. 9: a full parking lot. People chatted, keys in hands, heading to their cars outside the public library. This […]
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Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for February 22, 2024 through February 29, 2024
Art as a Family Affair Artwork by members of 37 Cape Cod families is the subject of “Familial,” an exhibit currently on view in the Hope McClennen Gallery at the […]
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TEXTURES
The Intimacy of the Everyday
Oscar Morel’s collages escape the constraints of canvases
From a young age, Oscar Morel exhibited an interest in feeling, touch, and texture. “My mom used to call me Toca Mano — her nickname for ‘touchy’ — because whenever […]
WHISPERS
‘Our Queer Elders’ in History and Song
Katie Castagno makes music by speculating about the past
Katie Castagno is a geologist at Provincetown’s Center for Coastal Studies by day who goes home and writes songs at night. She remembers the moment she learned that the marine […]
THEATER REVIEW
Double and Triple Trouble in ‘Little Devils’
Six short plays about the tribulations of modern life
The Helltown Players is a self-described “collaborative of dramatists and theater enthusiasts from the Outer Cape” who, inspired by those historic rebels the Provincetown Players, aim to produce plays “written […]
IMPOSSIBLE ART
Beauty, Brokenness, and Moral Complexity
Galería Cubana’s annual art tour in Cuba is a revelation
Luis Rodríguez Noa, a young Cuban painter and graphic artist, won first prize in his country’s National Contest of Posters in 2005 for a witty entry commemorating the 400th anniversary […]
Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for February 15, 2024 through February 22, 2024
Celebrating the Music of Irving Berlin For baritone and voice instructor John Murelle, entertainment and “enlightenment” go hand in hand. Accompanied by pianist Chris Morris and guest singer Johanna Stipetic, […]
PORTALS
In Poland With Abraham Storer
In a solo show, the painter finds flashes of recognition in the unfamiliar
Abraham Storer was standing in a cemetery in Gliwice, Poland in the fall of 2020. He wasn’t there to mourn but to paint — positioned with easel, canvas, and palette […]
INDIE SCREEN
Oscar Gets an International Itch
Three subtitled films are up for Best Picture
Making a film about the Holocaust is always problematic. How do you create something that properly represents or explains an atrocity so enormous it defies comprehension? The Nazis systematically exterminated […]
SPIRALS
A Poet’s Prose
Lindsay Miles is using her FAWC fellowship to write outside her comfort zone
Lindsay Miles, one of this winter’s Fine Arts Work Center fellows, doesn’t feel comfortable calling herself a writer. “I think I’ll be 80 and I’ll still be unsure of the […]
TRAGIC LITTLE SOBS
The Internal Contradictions of Avigayl Sharp
A FAWC fiction fellow navigates between the real and the absurd
A wave of doubt rolls through fiction writer Avigayl Sharp moments before she meets the page. “Writing is scary for me because I go in with absolutely nothing,” she says. […]
Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for February 8, 2024 through February 15, 2024
A New Executive Director at Twenty Summers Bill Reihl has been visiting Provincetown for decades. Some of his favorite memories from those visits, he says, are of events at the […]
ARTISTS
Joan Hopkins Coughlin Works From Memory
Her landscapes and still lifes reflect on her times in Wellfleet and Jamaica
Joan Hopkins Coughlin’s Wellfleet home is perched on a hill overlooking Duck Creek, a subject she’s continually returned to in her paintings. By the door in her kitchen hangs a […]
TELEVISION
The Curse Tells Unnerving Truths
The show on Paramount Plus paints a brutal portrait of two newlywed gentrifiers
The Curse, the latest wild-card creation from director Nathan Fielder now streaming on Paramount Plus, is a show about the two worst people in the world: newlyweds Whitney and Asher […]
