End-of-season group shows can be an undemanding way for galleries to take a breather after a busy stretch of solo exhibitions and heavy visitor traffic. But for artist and curator […]
Arts & Minds
Celebrating the creative and sometimes quirky culture of the Outer Cape.
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POETRY
Students and Vets Join Forces for Peace
Young poets reflect on loss, fear, and hope
In her poem “Peace,” Ana Maldacker, a seventh-grade student in the Provincetown Schools’ International Baccalaureate program, describes an image of loss: An empty carriage in a town square, as a […]
ARTISTS
Jack Coughlin Makes His Marks
A retrospective charts the artist’s 60-year fascination with people and animals
Jack Coughlin’s Golden Cod Gallery has been a Wellfleet mainstay since he and his wife Joan Hopkins took over the space in 1964. The low-lying shingled building stands near a […]
Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for October 13 through October 20, 2022
Dyke Drag Brunch Redux For the first time in 22 years, Dyke Drag Brunch will return to Provincetown this Saturday, Oct. 15, produced by Kayla Manjarrez and I’m Baby, who […]
TOWNSCAPES
The Van Dereck Collection: An Eye on the Past
PAAM’s fourth exhibition from Helen and Napi’s trove reveals Provincetown as a malleable subject
Provincetown’s identity is rooted in its history as a place where artists came to develop their vision in a community of creative peers. For many, it also served as their […]
INDIE SCREEN
It’s Not Heavy, It’s Bros
Billy Eichner’s gay romcom delivers on its promise
Comedian Billy Eichner has done a blitzkrieg of interviews on behalf of the new gay romantic comedy Bros, a movie that he co-wrote and stars in and which has now […]
WOMEN’S WEEK
Putting the Focus on Women
A preview of the diverse lineup at this year’s expanded film festival
“It’s a good time of year for movies,” says Provincetown Film Society Executive Director Anne Hubbell, who has curated a diverse lineup of film screenings and related conversations at the […]
VISIONS
Seeing the Invisible
Two photographers reveal hidden realms of light
Photography usually depicts what we see. Sometimes, it also shows us what we can’t. There are hidden realms on either end of the spectrum of light we perceive when we […]
LINE BREAK
Afloat at Land’s End
Maria Nazos’s ‘Cape Cod Pantoum’
For all the beauty of the Outer Cape, for all the luck we feel to live in this gorgeous place, it isn’t all dreamy sunsets and fabulous gatherings. Not all […]
Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for October 6 through October 13, 2022
Rosalie Acinapura Takes It All In Rosalie Acinapura describes herself as “a people person in my life and in my photography.” She has brought many strangers joy by asking permission […]
CROSSWORD #35
Shell Out for Lunch
NEW VISIONS
Bridging a Generational Divide
The co-founders of an art collective on collaboration and combining complementary skills
“How can we use the element of contrast in our work?” asked Alana Barrett, one of the two founders of the art collective PROMPT at the beginning of last week’s […]
INDIE SCREEN
Tales of Impossible Romance and Great Longing
Streaming movies with storytelling prowess
Amid the torrent of news about Putin’s Russia and its corrupt imperial rampage into Ukraine comes the movie Firebird, now streaming on Amazon Prime. This Estonian-British coproduction recounts a tragic […]
LOCAL ROYALTY
Provincetown’s Sweetheart Signs Off for Now
The beloved star of Leggs Up and Dancing has retired from WOMR
Oh, Sweet Sarah, there have been good times. But for Lady Di and her fans all over the world, the times they are a-changin’. Lady Di, another part of Vernon […]
BOOK REVIEW
Resetting the Holy Atonement Button
A rabbi offers a way to find forgiveness in a difficult world
It is hard at the moment not to feel that there is no way out — individually, communally, or globally — of the shameful mess that is life. And yet […]
