Paul Resika was browsing in a bookshop in New York City when he came across four volumes of engravings of paintings in the Vatican Museums. He bought the whole set […]
Arts & Minds
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LESSONS
John Clayton Dreams in Color
Finding the perfect balance between life and work
Many people dream of quitting their jobs to become painters or writers, musicians or playwrights. The prospect of no regular paychecks — and no guarantees — can be frightening. But […]
BOOK REVIEW
Can Combatting Racism and White Supremacy Be … Fun?
Using games and humor to tackle some very serious subjects
Some planted “Black Lives Matter” signs in their yards after the murder of George Floyd. Putting out a sign might be a start to addressing systemic racism, argue W. Kamau […]
UNDER THE INFLUENCE
Diana Horowitz Paints Big Places on a Small Scale
The artist explores her long connection to the Outer Cape in a new show
Diana Horowitz’s landscape paintings are notable not only for her mastery of technique but also for their size. None of her works has a dimension larger than seven inches; all […]
THE STROLL
Wellfleet, Late August
Seen and heard on the weekly gallery walk
Frying Pan Gallery 250 Commercial St. Friends Heather MacBride of Mashpee and Debbie Ward of Sandwich are dressed up for a night on the town. Having just enjoyed oyster happy […]
BOOK REVIEW
Lizabeth Cohen’s Reconsideration of Urban Renewal
A history of Ed Logue’s legacy has resonance for the Outer Cape
In Saving America’s Cities, the prize-winning historian Lizabeth Cohen bends over backwards to be fair to Ed Logue, the architect of efforts in New Haven, then Boston, and finally New […]
Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for September 8 through September 15, 2022
Christopher Pothier Works in the Shadows In his artist statement for “Wrangling With Shadows,” a new show at Bowersock Gallery (373 Commercial St., Provincetown), Christopher Pothier lists a handful of […]
OUTER CAPE PORTRAIT
Rebuilding Thalassa
NAT BULL / BUILDER & SHACK WIZARD / THE PROVINCE LANDS
Nat Bull is a master carpenter who learned the trades building custom houses in Chatham and then worked as the shop teacher in Provincetown until the high school graduated its […]
KIND OF BLUE
Drawing With Light and Making Magic
Three Provincetown artists take one of the oldest photographic techniques in new directions
When a new medium was unveiled in 1839 that miraculously seemed to fix images from an ever-changing reality onto a permanent surface, the British scientist and polymath Sir John Herschel […]
POETRY
Looking Back at a Provincetown That Was
Gabrielle Rilleau layers family, place, and memory in a new collection of poems
Fishing villages know the sea will take what it wants. Storms roll in, boats sink, and accidents happen. In her new book of poems, No Room for Slippage, Gabrielle Rilleau […]
THEATER REVIEW
WHAT Presents a Feminist Fantasia on the Reign of Terror
Lauren Gunderson’s The Revolutionists is a four-woman romp
The French Revolution that began in 1789, like the American one before it, is not known for its women fighters. The Enlightenment manifesto of the uprising is notably entitled the […]
BACK SHORE
Pete Hocking and the Embodied Experience
Through his painting, the artist takes viewers on journeys through land and sea
Pete Hocking is many things: image maker, teacher, community organizer, blogger, curator — and the possessor of one of the Outer Cape’s most notable beards. “And I’m a big walker,” […]
QUEER ‘I’
Ta-Ta for Now to All That
A writer reflects on returning to Provincetown after a year away
It is a showy move to begin a personal essay with a Virginia Woolf quote, but I am a showy person. So, here is Woolf: “What does it mean, then? […]
POETRY
Two Sonnets From the Pandemic
John Okrent’s first book, This Costly Season: A Crown of Sonnets, was published by Arrowsmith Press in 2021. Okrent is a family doctor who works at the Sea Mar Community […]
Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for September 1 through September 8, 2022
Art in Flux at Alden Gallery Abstraction and representation are usually seen as opposite — if not antagonistic — modes of artistic expression. According to Alden Gallery owner Howard Karren, […]
