Christine and Michael Jones first encountered Truro artist Nancy Ellen Craig in 2010, five years before she died. After meeting them at the Cape Cod Museum of Art, Craig invited […]
Arts & Minds
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PROVINCETOWN FILM FESTIVAL
Something Shocking This Way Comes
Bruce LaBruce is the latest Filmmaker on the Edge
“John Waters and Andy Warhol were two of my biggest influences when I was starting out,” says Canadian filmmaker Bruce LaBruce. “At Warhol’s Factory there were a lot of drugs […]
PROVINCETOWN FILM FESTIVAL
Queendom Focuses on Subversive Performance Art in Russia
For the Provincetown-based producer, the film carries a special personal weight
Igor Myakotin first set foot in Provincetown in 2015 on a J-1 visa. At the time, he was an aspiring filmmaker with a job at Ptown Bikes. Now, eight years […]
FILM FESTIVAL
Julio Torres’s Problemista Wakes Up the American Dream
The comedian’s debut feature reveals the absurdity of the U.S. immigration system
To be sucked into the universe of Julio Torres is to find oneself surrounded by worlds teetering on the cusp of the absurd and the real. Each world is adorned […]
Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for June 15, 2023 through June 22, 2023
A Dance Performance Brings 1990s New York to Provincetown New York City nightlife in the 1990s (at least before then-mayor Rudolph Giuliani’s eventual crackdown) was a decadent world of avant-garde […]
FILM FESTIVAL PREVIEW
Provincetown Lights Up the Big Screen, and Vice Versa
Celebrating diversity and cinema on the Outer Cape
As the Provincetown International Film Festival (PIFF) counts down to its 2023 launch next Wednesday, it feels bittersweet to recognize the 25th anniversary of this local extravaganza of screenings and […]
IN THE STUDIO
Donald Beal’s Search for Beauty and Dynamism
The Provincetown artist doesn’t take shortcuts in pursuit of making a painting work
In Donald Beal’s Provincetown studio, in the rear of his Alden Street home, a large painting of two women leaving the water hangs on a central wall. After working on […]
POETRY
Cynthia Bargar’s Poems Unearth Buried Stories
A memoir in poetry conjures the healing power of a familial haunting
Cynthia Bargar was writing short fiction when her friend, the poet Michael Burkard, urged her to turn toward poetry. “He would read my stories,” says Bargar, “and say, ‘Why aren’t […]
BOOKS
Steven Rowley Treasures Old Friends
In The Celebrants, the author explores the importance of having people ‘who knew you before’
Author Steven Rowley is having a moment and says he’s trying to fully appreciate the unexpected highs while hoping the other shoe won’t eventually drop. In April, Rowley won the […]
Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for June 7, 2023 through June 14, 2023
16th Annual Encaustic Conference Makes a Mark To most nonartists, encaustic — a kind of painting in which pigments are mixed into hot wax — may seem like a relatively […]
THEATER
All Aboard for Jesus Hopped the ‘A’ Train
WHAT bares its stage for a meditation on violence, truth, and morality
The playwright and sometime actor Stephen Adly Guirgis (pronounced GEER-giss, with hard Gs) is a major theatrical talent who isn’t nearly as well known as David Mamet, although Guirgis’s rhythmic, […]
SCIENCE
Scientists Connect the Dots on Climate Change
A Twenty Summers panel looks at how fires anywhere become problems everywhere
The environmental challenges in the Amazon rainforest and Arctic permafrost may seem far removed from those in Provincetown, but what happens in one place can drastically affect the present and […]
STORYTELLING
Connecting Provincetown’s Queer Past and Present
The Generations Project’s twin objectives: ‘anthologizing’ and forging an intergenerational community
PROVINCETOWN — Tens of thousands of people descend on this queer haven at land’s end every summer to eat, drink, and be merry with chosen family. Adam Golub, the creative […]
ARTISTS
Heads of Strength and Autonomy
Alicia Henry’s portraits suggest experiences both unique to her community and universal in scope
The Fine Arts Work Center hosted a lush and virtuosic exhibition last summer titled “Glitch Aesthetics.” In it were two heads by Alicia Henry, crudely cut from stained fabric, their […]
PRIDE
The Lesbian Seagulls That Revealed a History of Suppressed Science
'Radiolab' host Lulu Miller brings same-sex pairing in nature to the fore
WNYC Studios’ Lulu Miller had an idea for Pride Month: “a fun little science story about same-sex mating and relationships in nature.” But “The Seagulls,” the episode of Radiolab, which […]
