Every new year is an opportunity to renew ourselves: to plan new experiences, start a new exercise routine, or quit drinking (at least temporarily). It’s also a great time to […]
Arts & Minds
Celebrating the creative and sometimes quirky culture of the Outer Cape.
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Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for January 9, 2024 through January 16, 2025
Kareem Sanjaghi Plays a Bit of Everything Kareem Sanjaghi, who grew up in Brewster and now lives in Plymouth, has been playing the drums for 25 years and leading his […]
Lost to Time
Provincetown Fishermen of the '30s & '40s
Greetings from Cape Cod
“Grape-Nuts”
MUSES
Painting With Ferocity and Freedom
In the summer of 1958, Bob Thompson found inspiration among his friends in Provincetown
Bob Thompson came to Provincetown in 1958 and met a group of peers who would influence his art and his life. “I Am Myself: Early Works by Bob Thompson and […]
DRAWING LIFE
On the Hunt for Courtney Allen
The illustrator who rendered America in myth and modernity
On a long wooden table in the quiet confines of the Cobb Archive in Truro, the beasts don’t circle as much as they overlap, still menacing but yellowed with time. […]
MUSIC AND ART
Garrett Dutton Finds a Different Rhythm
For this musician, painting is a source of freedom untethered from expectations
Garrett Dutton is best known by his stage name, G. Love. Since the early 1990s, he’s fronted the hip-hop blues band G. Love and Special Sauce, which maintains an active […]
INDIE SCREEN
The Cinematic Art of Forbidden Fruit
Queer and Anora serve up a naughty feast
William S. Burroughs is a familiar figure in the countercultural Beat movement, along with his friends Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac. He is also one of the greatest and most […]
MUSIC
From Eastham to Hollywood and Home Again
Natalia Bonfini is a different musician after American Idol
Four years ago, Natalia Bonfini, who grew up in Eastham, found herself in Nashville, face to face with American Idol judges Katy Perry, Lionel Richie, and Luke Bryan. She would […]
FICTION
What We Carry With Us
Phone. Wallet. Keys. A modicum of dignity. An ocean of guilt. For me, the humiliation of Bobby Chandler beating me up in fourth grade. For her, a grandmother’s dictum that […]
Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for December 26, 2024 through January 2, 2025
John Shuman Is Looking for Answers Wellfleet-based actor and memoirist John Shuman has a lot of questions about the important things we often take for granted, like laughter, music, and […]
CROSSWORD #58
Winter Wonderland
ARTISTS
Variations on a Theme
A Greenwich Village exhibit invites us into Pat de Groot’s studio by the sea
The gallery at the New York Studio School on West 8th Street was empty of people when I visited Provincetown artist Pat de Groot’s posthumous survey exhibition, “Sea Smoke,” the […]
THE PRESENT MOMENT
Building a Home and a Community Through Art
Fred Boak and Naomi Rush compiled their art collection by gift-giving in a ‘late romance’
In a sunny room of her Orleans house, Naomi Rush begins a tour of her art collection with a black-and-white linocut by Joyce Johnson titled Salt Pond — Winter. Rush’s […]
