The rule of thirds is a compositional principle in photography: an image is divided into three equal parts to achieve maximum aesthetic tension. For the writer Michael Cunningham, the rule […]
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Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for December 14, 2023 through December 21, 2023
McIntosh Retrospective at Truro Library The late painter Hal McIntosh found early inspiration in a little dune shack on Cold Storage Beach in North Truro. He spent 10 bohemian summers […]
IN PROGRESS
Jenny Humphreys Gets Away With It
Inside the painter’s winter of whimsy
In the center of a melancholy Norwegian landscape — with its brown mountain, cold sky, and rows of huddled evergreens — stands a massive chicken foot. It looks extraterrestrial, exploding […]
ENSEMBLE
Allison Beavan Keeps the Outer Cape ‘Together in This Music’
A chorale that strives for fun and excellence prepares for its holiday concert
Allison Beavan stands on stage adjusting her microphone: “Check one, check two.” After a deep breath and a “haaa!” she flips the page and, facing the 118 members of the […]
ALL AROUND
Eleanor and Dario’s Multilingual Repertoire
The husband-and-wife duo will perform songs from around the world
Eleanor Dubinsky met Dario Acosta Teich in 2019 while scoping out a Candombe jam at a Uruguayan restaurant on the Lower East Side. “Candombe is Afro-Uruguayan,” Dubinsky says. “It comes […]
CASTOFFS
The Scrap Heap Is His Palette
Terry Catalano’s graffiti-inspired assemblages are built to last
Terry Catalano moves one of his 50-pound found-wood sculptures across his Pearl Street apartment’s sunroom to make space for a six-foot Christmas tree, decorated with a collection of toys from […]
Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for December 7, 2023 through December 14, 2023
Autumn Group Show at Alden Gallery The current autumn group show at Alden Gallery (423 Commercial St., Provincetown) features work by 16 artists represented by the gallery. Founder and curator […]
PHOTOGRAPHY
A House and Its Reflection
Robert S Johnson turns his focus on one house and the history of Blackfish Creek
Pleasant Point is a spit of land in Wellfleet that juts out into Blackfish Creek. It’s like Cape Cod or Provincetown in miniature: not a place you drive through, but […]
IN KIND
Paige Turner Is on the Nice List
Reclaiming Christmas with a songful show at the Post Office Café
Paige Turner, the bright, sassy songstress, promises that the true meaning of the Christmas season is to be greedy, to be a misfit, and to get your stocking stuffed. After […]
ENSEMBLE
The Boston Gay Men’s Chorus Sings Its Truth
For Holly Folly, a holiday concert both silly and profound
For three hours every Wednesday evening, Reuben Reynolds, the music director of the Boston Gay Men’s Chorus (BGMC), leads more than 300 members in song. A self-described “mean queen” at […]
INDIE SCREEN
Portraits of Liberation in the ’60s and ’70s
Three films look back without prejudice
Bayard Rustin is an important yet obscure figure of the civil rights movement, and his time has come. A close adviser to Martin Luther King Jr. — it was Rustin […]
EXPERIMENTS IN MUSIC
Twisted Pine’s Progressive Spin on Bluegrass
The band combines tradition and innovation — with a Whammy pedal
Chris Sartori, the bassist of the bluegrass band Twisted Pine, says the band’s success is due to the friendship they have cultivated on the road, traveling across the country in […]
POETRY
For My Girlfriend Sleeping In
The earliest sunrises of the year come in mid-June. Right before Father’s Day, right before schools let out, and turn the quiet Cape upside down with tourists. On these early […]
Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for November 30, 2023 through December 7, 2023
Play Reading Series Spotlights Young Queer Voices Sheila Callaghan’s 2015 play Women Laughing Alone With Salad is about three women living in an image-obsessed culture. Its title was inspired by […]
IN TRUTH
Linda Coombs Wants Young Readers to Know the Past
The Wampanoag author’s new children’s book aims to bust myths about colonization
“Some people think we all disappeared,” says Linda Coombs, a member of the Wampanoag Tribe of Aquinnah who for nearly 50 years has been a historian and museum curator specializing […]
