When Kit Zauhar began marketing her debut feature film Actual People on the festival circuit, she referred to it as “mumblecore for people of color.” “I don’t regret many things […]
Arts & Minds
Celebrating the creative and sometimes quirky culture of the Outer Cape.
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MUSIC
Julian Saporiti’s Musical Histories
In “No-No Boy,” he teaches aspects of American history you didn’t know you didn’t know
Many Americans weren’t taught in history class about the U.S. government’s imprisonment of more than 120,000 Japanese Americans during World War II — much less that a swing band made […]
IN THE STUDIO
Julia Felsenthal Finds No Place to Hide in Her Paintings
The artist and writer explores ‘the ever-changing present’ in her watercolor seascapes and portraits
Julia Felsenthal likes to paint the same thing over and over again. In her Orleans studio — a small room in her house overlooking Pleasant Bay — stacks of watercolors […]
Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for May 11, 2023 through May 17, 2023
From the Inner Hebrides to the Outer Cape The Outer Cape and the Isle of Skye off the northwest coast of Scotland are separated by three thousand miles of mostly […]
MUSIC
Rufus Wainwright Comes Home to Provincetown for the First Time
The ‘baroque pop’ star returns to his folk music roots
Rufus Wainwright has never been to Provincetown, though it’s been on his radar for a long time. “We’ve kind of been circling each other dramatically for a while now, P’town […]
MUSIC IN THE SCHOOLS
Jazz for a New Generation
Drummer Bart Weisman inspires students with music that’s part of American history
TRURO — First, Bart Weisman and his group played George Gershwin’s 1934 tune “Summertime” slow and easy — just like it was in the original production of the musical Porgy […]
INDIE SCREEN
When Sex Is Beside the Point
Two new films explore the pain of loss in male friendships
At the beginning of the revelatory Belgian film Close, young Leo, whose parents own a flower farm, can think of nothing more than spending all his summer days with Remi, […]
ART AND ACCESS
Twenty Summers Holds the Past and the Future Together
Reimagining what creative community can look like on the Outer Cape
The tenth season of Twenty Summers, a program of artist residencies and cultural events held in the Hawthorne Barn in Provincetown, begins this month. The barn’s history informs the organization’s […]
Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for May 4, 2023 through May 11, 2023
Listening to a World of Creativity Since the Arts Foundation of Cape Cod’s Creative Exchange podcast was launched four years ago, it has spotlighted eminent Outer Cape artists and cultural […]
CROSSWORD #41
Unto the Breach
COVER STORY
Jane Rosenberg Captures History in the Courtroom
After her sketch of Donald Trump went viral, she reflects on being ‘part artist, part journalist’
Jane Rosenberg would probably rather not be talking to yet another reporter. “It’s been a lot of interviews since the Trump arraignment,” she told the Independent. As a courtroom sketch […]
MUSEUMS
Will Barnet’s Search for Meaning
An artist and teacher used form to evoke deep feeling in works inspired by the natural world
Far from the heroic scale and subject matter of works by many of his contemporaries, Will Barnet’s flat, crisp compositions often depicted women (and their cats) in domestic spaces. Born […]
LINE BREAK
In Praise of the Cormorant
Brendan Galvin’s poem honors the ‘shag rats’ of the Outer Cape ecosystem
Spring is in the air and on the water. These past few weeks, I’ve been watching a colony of double-crested cormorants, back after wintering south of here, remake their nests […]
MOVIES
Building Community One Movie and Cup of Coffee at a Time
A three-month internship aims to lure new audiences to Wellfleet Preservation Hall
On a recent Tuesday morning at Wellfleet Preservation Hall, 20-year-old intern Mia Lima made sure the coffee and water were hot and plentiful and plates of donated homemade snacks were […]
Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for April 27, 2023 through May 4, 2023
From the Pamet River to East 10th Street Many of Andrew W. Young’s minimal compositions are inspired by the Outer Cape landscape and by the artist William Holst (1912-1995), who […]
