James Montgomery is inspired by something he heard bassist Gordon Edwards say decades ago: “I don’t score many touchdowns, but my team always wins.” It’s the kind of modesty that […]
Arts & Minds
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LOCAL FLAVORS
Dispatches From Eggs Isle
A live comedy podcast about gentrification and displacement in Provincetown
Eggs Isle is a fictional place off the coast of Provincetown where those who are evicted from their homes wash ashore. It is also the name of a live improvisational […]
ART AND ACCESS
Making Art and Making Do
Dominique Pecce finds rewards and challenges as a working artist on the Outer Cape
The term “emerging artist” is often used without much thought about what it means. In a sense, artists should always be “emerging.” But there’s a moment where the process is […]
Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for November 3, through November 10, 2022
Looking at New Americans Photographer Mark Chester had his eye on the U.S. census of 2010, curious about the diverse range of nationalities represented in Massachusetts. He found inspiration for […]
THEATER REVIEW
Giving Thanks With a Woolly Weave of Family Ties
'The Humans' arrives at the Provincetown Theater
As adult children reunite with their parents for a holiday dinner, troublesome secrets and long-held tensions surface and ignite: it’s a spectacle we’ve most likely witnessed before, in art and […]
FELLOWSHIP
Meet the 2022-23 FAWC Writing Fellows
A diverse coterie of writers arrives in Provincetown for a seven-month stint
Ten writers — poets, essayists, novelists, and memoirists — arrived in Provincetown earlier this month to begin their seven-month-long fellowships at the Fine Arts Work Center. FAWC fellowship writing coordinator […]
BOOK REVIEW
Bouncing Through the Filth
With Liarmouth, John Waters — screenwriter, director, visual artist, and cultural icon — adds novelist to his résumé
Anyone from John Waters’s legion of fans may be forgiven for cracking the spine of Liarmouth: A Feel-Bad Romance with some trepidation. Has time mellowed his edges? Is a softer, […]
ARTISTS ON ART
Celebrating Five Decades of Castle Hill
Artists reflect on their work and the Castle Hill experience
This fall, the 50th anniversary of the Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill has been marked by several group shows celebrating the vast network of artists associated with […]
Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for October 27 through November 3, 2022
Things That Go Bump in the Frame “Night,” a group show at Four Eleven Gallery (411 Commercial St., Provincetown), features work by six artists that explores the dark side. Highlights […]
IN THE GALLERIES
Erika Wastrom’s Imagined Realities
Finding art as a ‘spiritual corrective’ in an unsteady world
Erika Wastrom’s paintings depict uncanny worlds that seem equal parts imagined and observed. Despite recognizable elements — a shopping cart, a child’s sippy cup — there is a playful oddity […]
FELLOWSHIP
Welcoming the 2022-23 FAWC Visual Arts Fellows
Ten artists from around the globe step into Provincetown
The Fine Arts Work Center welcomed 10 visual arts fellows this month for seven-month-long residencies in Provincetown. Executive Director Sharon Polli says the fellowship program is central to the Work […]
PLANTCRAFT
Milisa Moses Stirs Up the Alchemy of Blues and Browns
Making art with pigments from indigo leaves and oak galls
Like many artists on the Outer Cape, Milisa Moses finds creative inspiration in the landscape. But Moses weaves the environment into her process as well as into her product. Moses […]
FUTURE TENSE
The Artist in the Machine
The promise and pitfalls of creating art with artificial intelligence
In his 1868 prose poem Les Chants de Maldoror, the self-styled Comte de Lautrémont described a young man as being as beautiful as the “chance encounter of a sewing machine […]
Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for October 20 through October 27, 2022
Closing One Door and Opening Another As impresario of Art Market Provincetown, gallerist Debbie Nadolney has fostered a communal space centered on creativity. A celebration marking the end of AMP’s […]
BREATHING ROOM
Longing for a Place to Call Home
Alejandra Cuadra Sanchez’s experience as an immigrant informs her multimedia art
Alejandra Cuadra Sanchez, who was born in Peru and immigrated to Orleans when she was eight, makes multimedia art that is as much an exploration of identity and self as […]
