Are you dreaming, as I am, of a bottomless martini with a side of regret? Clever lyrics wryly sung? Heartbreak delivered at 11 o’clock? If you answered yes to any […]
Arts & Minds
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Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for June 1, 2023 through June 7, 2023
The Art of Their Lives A current exhibition and upcoming book launch at the Provincetown Commons (46 Bradford St.) illustrate the often unexpected ways in which paintings and the written […]
CROSSWORD #42
Beachgrass
WOMEN’S WEEKEND
In Perpetual Pursuit of a Creative Life
Natalia Zukerman will lead a workshop on unlocking difficult stories for Women’s Weekend in Provincetown
Natalia Zukerman has taken a “long and winding road,” to where she is now, she says on the phone. Primarily known as a piercing singer-songwriter and stalwart touring musician, Zukerman […]
ART AND ACCESS
The Art of Buying and Selling Artists’ Work
A passion for art and a dedication to artists are often more important than profit
“I wanted this room to be quiet,” says Gail Bell, sitting in her Wellfleet living room. Outside the windows, traffic and pedestrians flow along Main Street, but she has created […]
LINE BREAK
Winging Into Season
Melanie Braverman’s ‘Cusp’ celebrates a month of change
Parking lots in Provincetown are charging. The Dolphin Fleet is taking people out, and the ferries are already bringing the clack of roller bags down the pier and into town. […]
MUSIC
The Oshima Brothers’ Big New Sound
The folk-pop duo brings multiple instruments, new songs, and video to Twenty Summers
Only two musicians will be playing at the Hawthorne Barn in Provincetown on May 27. But the Oshima Brothers want the audience to feel like they’re experiencing the sound of […]
TRANSLATION
Liberating Kafka From the Myth of Kafka
Ross Benjamin’s translation of Kafka’s diaries is the first of its kind
EASTHAM — When the German-speaking Czech writer Franz Kafka died in 1924 from tuberculosis, he ordered his close friend and literary executor Max Brod to burn all his work. Brod, […]
Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for May 24, 2023 through May 31, 2023
A Mother’s Eye, a Daughter as Muse From Edward Weston’s portraits of his son Neil (who grew up to be a photographer) to Sally Mann’s sometimes controversial studies of her […]
MUSEUMS
Sky Power Paints With Abandon
The artist’s vibrant pictures reveal a lifelong pursuit of new horizons
Sky Power points to a loosely defined shape in her painting Interior of a Landscape. It could be a boat floating in water: an orange rectangle rising from a half-moon […]
DRAG DESK
Illusions — It’s Forever
A new and more intimate venue for Provincetown’s longest-running review
For all its fierce glamour and industrial-strength levels of hairspray, a drag show is a fragile thing. The delicate alchemy of performer, venue, and audience can be lost when an […]
‘BOUNDARY SCHOOL’
Liberating and Healing the Body Through Writing
Antoinette Cooper uses narrative medicine to repair individual and generational trauma
Even over Zoom, Antoinette Cooper’s presence radiates harmony. The poet, medical humanist, and spiritual practitioner is calling in from her home in New York City, where she says rodents have […]
THEATER REVIEW
Checking In to Harvey Fierstein’s Casa Valentina
Exploring a different sort of Catskills resort from the past
When Harvey Fierstein’s Casa Valentina premiered on Broadway in April 2014 — only nine years ago — Obama was president, the Supreme Court decision that made same-sex marriage a Constitutional […]
Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for May 17, 2023 through May 24, 2023
Calling All Classical Musicians Open Mic Classical was founded in 2015 by clarinetist Monika Woods and violist and sculptor Robert Marcus to create a community of classical musicians of all […]
MOTHER’S DAY
An Artist’s Maternal Legacy
For Breon Dunigan, it’s not just about the art, ‘but how you artfully do things’
Sculptor Breon Dunigan comes from a long line of local artists. Her great-grandparents were the first in her family to move to the Outer Cape, drawn by Charles Hawthorne’s Cape […]
