NEW YORK CITY — Ella Mae Dixon took the stage at Birdland on West 44th Street in Manhattan’s theater district on Tuesday night, March 21. The legendary jazz club, which […]
Arts & Minds
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ARTISTS
Diane Messinger’s Operatic Narratives
The artist mines history — and her own experience — in a series of powerful figurative paintings
Over the past several months, Diane Messinger has been attending live broadcasts of performances from the Metropolitan Opera at Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater (WHAT). This month, her fellow opera fans […]
ARTISTS
Capturing Winter’s Turbulence on Canvas
Elizabeth Flood experiments with perspective in her second FAWC fellowship
Elizabeth Flood’s tempestuous paintings and ink drawings capture the striations of history, violence, extraction, and sublimity that accumulate in a landscape over time. So, it makes sense that after bearing […]
INDIE SCREEN
Two Films That Take Young Girls Seriously
Streaming the genius of Aftersun and Playground
Amid the hoopla of the Oscars and award season, a couple of moving, astonishing, and beautifully crafted features by first-time woman directors slid by without much fanfare. One reason for […]
Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for April 6, 2023 through April 13, 2023
10 Seasons, 8 New Fellows at Twenty Summers Twenty Summers, the annual interdisciplinary program that has brought dozens of nationally and internationally known cultural figures to the Hawthorne Barn in […]
CROSSWORD #40
A Home for All Seasons
ART HISTORY
The Artistic Legacies of Mary Hackett
The self-taught Provincetown painter continues to hold an important place in local artists’ memories
When artist Susan Baker showed her work at the Fine Arts Work Center in 1974, Mary Hackett, then in her late 60s, attended the opening. The next day, Baker visited […]
WRITERS
A Journey From a Nigerian Village to the Outer Cape
Bhion Achimba’s writing situates personal experience in a wider political and social reality
Growing up in a small farming village in southeastern Nigeria, Bhion Achimba was not supposed to become a writer. His family lacked the resources to send him to college, and […]
LINE BREAK
Is Artificial Intelligence Going to Take Over Poetry?
Spoiler alert: No — at least, not yet
Questions about the promise and existential threat of artificial intelligence are everywhere these days. What can A.I. do? What should it do? As recently as last year, most of the […]
ARTISTS
An Elegantly Colorful World of ‘Slightly Bad Taste’
Mark Joshua Epstein finds ‘arguments and romance’ in his unconventional paintings
Mark Joshua Epstein is not afraid of excess. In his paintings, saturated hues and whimsical patterns bump up against asymmetrical frames. Some pieces jut out from the wall in precisely […]
Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for March 30, 2023 through April 6, 2023
James Stanley’s Views of a ‘Narrow Place’ Wellfleet artist James Everett Stanley is showing a group of paintings in an exhibition titled From the narrow place at Hirschl & Adler […]
DOCUMENTARIES
Remembering Boston’s Countercultural Radio Hub
A film about the heyday of WBCN tells the story of a station and a movement
Journalist and documentarian Bill Lichtenstein has uncovered major investigative scoops, won a Peabody Award and a Guggenheim Fellowship, and received a Special Recognition honor from the Mass. Association for Mental […]
ARTISTS
Art as Social Organism
Siennie Lee’s work is guided by a fascination with the pulse of society
An imposing triptych — greenish on the left, then bluish, then purple — hangs on one wall of Siennie Lee’s studio at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. Its […]
WRITERS
Kim Coleman Foote’s Art of Biomythography
The FAWC writing fellow explores the ‘muddiness’ of history and memory
“When you forget parts of a history, patterns repeat themselves,” says Kim Coleman Foote. “This goes for the great human tragedies as much as for intergenerational trauma within families.” Foote, […]
WOMEN’S HISTORY
An Artistic Dialogue Across the Decades
Megan Hinton on two influential Provincetown artists
Although Truro-based artist, curator, and teacher Megan Hinton never met Florence Brillinger or Janice Biala, their work has strongly informed her own art practice. We met recently at the Provincetown […]
