Black Artists, Black Lives Contemporary African American artists Amy Sherald, Kerry James Marshall, and Kehinde Wiley will be featured in a Zoom presentation by lecturer Bob Potter titled “Reclaiming Black […]
Arts & Minds
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ARTISTS
Deb Mell Takes What She Knows and Spits It Out
Paintings and sculptures weave together stories and materials in an artist’s orbit
Deb Mell’s uncanny artwork often leaves one wondering. Her paintings are populated with recurring characters — half animal, half human — rendered in meticulous black-and-white marks. They float through spaces […]
WRITERS
John Murillo Makes Music of Translation
Fifteen years and two books later, a poet returns to the Fine Arts Work Center
When poet John Murillo arrived in Provincetown last October for his second fellowship at the Fine Arts Work Center, he wasn’t quite sure where his work would take him. Since […]
TV OR NOT TV
Streaming Picks for a Soggy Springtime
What to watch while you’re waiting for the warmer weather to arrive
Picks by Independent staff and contributors The calendar says it’s springtime, but Outer Cape weather in April is a reminder of that old saw about what makes May flowers bloom. […]
ARTISTS
Experiments in Form and Speculation
Sichong Xie makes art ‘almost exploring something that’s impossible to reach’
In 1975, after driving east from Los Angeles, the Dutch conceptual artist Bas Jan Ader set sail across the Atlantic Ocean in a small boat. The performance piece was never […]
Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for April 13, 2023 through April 20, 2023
A Celebration of Spring at the Addison Gallery The Addison Art Gallery in Orleans (43 South Orleans Road) hosts a spring celebration on Saturday, April 15, 4 to 6 pm. […]
JAZZ
Wellfleet’s Ella Mae Dixon Makes Her Birdland Debut
A young ‘old-fashioned’ singer pursues her dream in New York
NEW YORK CITY — Ella Mae Dixon took the stage at Birdland on West 44th Street in Manhattan’s theater district on Tuesday night, March 21. The legendary jazz club, which […]
ARTISTS
Diane Messinger’s Operatic Narratives
The artist mines history — and her own experience — in a series of powerful figurative paintings
Over the past several months, Diane Messinger has been attending live broadcasts of performances from the Metropolitan Opera at Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater (WHAT). This month, her fellow opera fans […]
ARTISTS
Capturing Winter’s Turbulence on Canvas
Elizabeth Flood experiments with perspective in her second FAWC fellowship
Elizabeth Flood’s tempestuous paintings and ink drawings capture the striations of history, violence, extraction, and sublimity that accumulate in a landscape over time. So, it makes sense that after bearing […]
INDIE SCREEN
Two Films That Take Young Girls Seriously
Streaming the genius of Aftersun and Playground
Amid the hoopla of the Oscars and award season, a couple of moving, astonishing, and beautifully crafted features by first-time woman directors slid by without much fanfare. One reason for […]
Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for April 6, 2023 through April 13, 2023
10 Seasons, 8 New Fellows at Twenty Summers Twenty Summers, the annual interdisciplinary program that has brought dozens of nationally and internationally known cultural figures to the Hawthorne Barn in […]
CROSSWORD #40
A Home for All Seasons
ART HISTORY
The Artistic Legacies of Mary Hackett
The self-taught Provincetown painter continues to hold an important place in local artists’ memories
When artist Susan Baker showed her work at the Fine Arts Work Center in 1974, Mary Hackett, then in her late 60s, attended the opening. The next day, Baker visited […]
WRITERS
A Journey From a Nigerian Village to the Outer Cape
Bhion Achimba’s writing situates personal experience in a wider political and social reality
Growing up in a small farming village in southeastern Nigeria, Bhion Achimba was not supposed to become a writer. His family lacked the resources to send him to college, and […]
LINE BREAK
Is Artificial Intelligence Going to Take Over Poetry?
Spoiler alert: No — at least, not yet
Questions about the promise and existential threat of artificial intelligence are everywhere these days. What can A.I. do? What should it do? As recently as last year, most of the […]
