I recently saw an exhibit on the second floor of the Provincetown library: a case alongside the Rose Dorothea containing a whaling harpoon and line, a few images, and a […]
Arts & Minds
Celebrating the creative and sometimes quirky culture of the Outer Cape.
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WRITERS
Stories of Tradition and Modernity
Gothataone Moeng explores the tensions between the past and the present
It’s an exciting time for Fine Arts Work Center writing fellow Gothataone Moeng. Her first book, a collection of short stories set in her home country, was published earlier this […]
BOOKS
Barbara Bosworth Keeps an Eye on The Sea
Finding beauty reflected in texts and objects
One of Barbara Bosworth’s most prized possessions is a collection of bird eggs she inherited from her great-grandfather, who collected them in the wild, blew out their interiors, and saved […]
Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for Feb. 23, 2023 through March 2, 2023
Floating New Ways of Collaboration For the throngs of visitors who come to Provincetown every August, Carnival is a time to let loose and enjoy the spectacle. For local businesses, […]
BOOKS
A Voyage Through the Ildarwood
A Provincetown writer creates a fantasy world for young adult readers
J.R.R. Tolkien grew up reading mythology and folk tales, which had a profound effect on the books he wrote as an adult. Fantasy author Neil Gaiman has cited Michael Moorcock’s […]
ART HISTORIES
Provincetown’s Gallery Structure Is Challenged
Recent closings are a reminder of the art scene’s storied past and uncertain future
After 35 years in business, Albert Merola and Jim Balla announced last month that their gallery at 424 Commercial St. in Provincetown’s East End will not reopen for the 2023 […]
ART AND ACCESS
Where Time and Space Are at a Premium
Artists and institutions grapple with the challenge of creating studios
As housing has grown increasingly difficult to secure in Provincetown, so have art studios. It’s not a recent problem. In 1992, the artist Joyce Johnson, a founder of the Truro […]
WRITERS
Hannah Perrin King Captures the Mundane and the Majestic
A poet finds inspiration in things that are ‘constantly coming undone at the seams’
Hannah Perrin King entered college with a foolproof plan: complete pre-med coursework, major in English, and become a doctor who writes prose in her spare time. But thanks to a […]
ARTISTS
The Intimacies of Blake Daniels
Paintings that render friends and lovers in mystical landscapes
Since arriving in Provincetown in October to begin a fellowship at the Fine Arts Work Center, Blake Daniels has spent “an unnerving amount of time just standing by the sea.” […]
Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for Feb. 16, 2023 through Feb. 23, 2023
Dario Acosta Teich Wants You to Feel the Music Dario Acosta Teich grew up in a musical family in Tucumán, one of the smallest provinces in Argentina. He first began […]
INDIE SCREEN
When All That Glitters Is Not Gold
It’s Oscar season in the twilight of Hollywood
When the Covid lockdown happened back in March 2020, it accelerated shifts that were already in progress in the movie industry. Fewer people were seeing films in theaters, and streaming […]
BOOKS
Our ‘Yacking’ Democratic Genius
In a new memoir, Robert Pinsky explains what made him a poet — and what makes America poetic
“One way or another, people have more poetry in them than you might think,” insists Robert Pinsky. In 2000, this conviction prompted Pinsky, then the United States Poet Laureate, to […]
WRITERS
Writing That Shows Us Who We Really Are
A ‘stubborn fan’ of the short story explores complicated and difficult inner lives
Writer and current Fine Arts Work Center fellow Willie Fitzgerald calls himself a “stubborn fan” of the short story. “Dedicated short story writers and readers tend to be fewer in […]
ARTISTS
Pieter Paul Pothoven’s Art Had the Dutch ‘Fuming’
The FAWC fellow explores the politics and complexities of how history is told
Unlike the studios of many of his peers at the Fine Arts Work Center, Dutch artist Pieter Paul Pothoven’s is colorless and bare — aside from some grainy black-and-white printouts […]
Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for Feb. 9, 2023 through Feb. 16, 2023
The Mosquito Creates a Buzz The Mosquito Story Slam’s Valentine’s Day edition, “What I Did for Love,” will take place at the Provincetown Theater (238 Bradford St.) on Saturday, Feb. […]
