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Arts & Minds
Celebrating the creative and sometimes quirky culture of the Outer Cape.
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Pilgrims in Provincetown
Robert Strong queries colonial legacy on the Outer Cape
The overlapping stories of the Outer Cape are so thick and rich that it’s hard to hear them all: Nauset and Wampanoag people, Viking explorers, Basque fishermen, other European explorers, […]
Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for November 23, through December 1, 2022
Suzette Lebenzon’s Mystical Wellfleet In Suzette Lebenzon’s Broken Heart Mending at Lieutenant Island, a crow flies above a winding road that extends into a fantastically colored night sky. The road […]
LOCAL LEGENDS
Lights On at First Encounter
Celebrating nearly 50 years of music at a beloved Eastham coffee house that ‘rings with goodness’
EASTHAM — After two and a half years, the lights at the First Encounter Coffee House in Eastham’s Chapel in the Pines will finally be on again — at least […]
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Mad Libs Poetry: From Primrose to Precambrian
Debbie Nadolney considers deep time via a poem by Rita Dove
Debbie Nadolney is someone most art lovers (or music lovers, or convergence lovers) in Provincetown know. She arrived on the local gallery scene in 2012 when she opened AMP — […]
EXPRESSIONS
Variations on Resisting (and Embracing) a Theme
Sigrid Trumpy fuses memory and experimentation to create a varied body of work
“I’m at this point in my life where I do whatever I want,” says Sigrid Trumpy. Her current exhibition at Wellfleet Preservation Hall presents a varied body of work — […]
IN THE GALLERIES
It’s the Little Things
’Tis the season — and maybe the zeitgeist — for small-scale works of art
There’s an undeniable wallop of art that fills a wall, a whole room, or even an entire landscape with its presence. But there’s also something captivating about a painting that […]
Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for November 10, through November 17, 2022
Roomful of Blues at Provincetown Town Hall Musical history tells us that the blues were born in the Deep South more than 150 years ago, incorporating spirituals, work songs, and […]
A GIFT OF ART
Helen Frankenthaler’s Provincetown
Five works by the abstract master — the first in PAAM’s collection — are featured in an exhibition of recent acquisitions
Helen Frankenthaler’s Provincetown years were peppered with painting and parenting, swimming and socializing. “My sister Jeannie and I lived with Helen and our father, Robert Motherwell, for a decade of […]
BOOK REVIEW
Faith and Food Connect in Koshersoul
Finding identity — and community — in “the cuisine of the chocolate chosen.”
Michael W. Twitty’s Koshersoul: The Faith and Food Journey of an African American Jew comes to a boil slowly. For readers interested in the intersection of identity, food, and cooking, […]
INDIE SCREEN
Tár Is a Master Class of a Movie
Cate Blanchett gives Mahler a jolt while disrupting the lives of everyone around her
Into a world that has become hyperaware of the abuses of power comes the movie Tár, now playing in theaters locally. Written and directed by Todd Field, an actor turned […]
ART AND ACCESS
Four Galleries Experiment With Artist Residencies
Going beyond selling art to create opportunities to work on the Outer Cape
Paige Beeber had been cloistered in New York City for months recovering from Covid when she had the opportunity to spend three July weeks on the Outer Cape. “Being able […]
Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for November 10, through November 17, 2022
Not Just Business as Usual If work isn’t working for you — or you wonder why so many live paycheck to paycheck while billionaires extract ever more wealth from the […]
CROSSWORD #36
Let’s Make It Official
IN THE STUDIO
Carmen Cicero’s Pursuit of Deep Expression
A lifetime of stories and styles emerges from a studio in Truro
At 96, Carmen Cicero is full of stories. There’s the story of his friend whose gnarled fingers spoke of a past life as an assassin in World War II before […]
