Martha Collins’s haunting, intimate poems are a form of conversation with readers on subjects as varied as her family history, racism, politics, and, most essentially, the poet herself, “the body […]
Arts & Minds
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PATRIOTS
Jay Critchley Flies His Flag(s)
In a provocative and humorous exhibit, an artist takes aim at big oil
Visitors to Jay Critchley’s Provincetown studio never know what they’ll encounter. In the ground outside his door, there’s a cesspool that he renovated into a whitewashed space complete with a […]
RADIO
Spinning the Classics
WOMR DJ Felice Coral wants listeners to ‘feel the music’
When Felice Coral drove back and forth between her family’s house in Eastham and her place in Boston, she would tune in to WOMR, Provincetown’s community radio station, as soon […]
BIG PICTURE
Storm Chasing in the Studio
Experiments in being sculptural
In a recent series of encaustic works, artist and Castle Hill director Cherie Mittenthal turns her attention to storms and boats. The pieces, she says, are influenced by her lifelong […]
Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for January 23, 2024 through January 30, 2025
A Live Simulcast of a Grand Opera The 19th-century Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi — who kept the scores of Beethoven’s string quartets on a shelf near his bed, shared a […]
CROSSWORD #59
Point of Sale
GALLERIES
Simie Maryles Is on the Move
After 26 years, the Provincetown painter will have a new space
If you have strolled along Cemetery Road at night and looked up at the Pilgrim Monument, you may have noticed, just underneath it, a well-lit studio and a painter working […]
BIG PICTURE
Reflections in the Badlands
A chance encounter with a Townsend’s solitaire
The Townsend’s Solitaire defends two worlds — the juniper grove and its reflection. Endlessly he sings on the sill between. That first winter after my brother died unexpectedly in fall […]
VIRTUOSO
For Beppe Gambetta, Music Is Like Magic
The guitarist from Genoa whose life was changed by Doc Watson’s flatpicking
Beppe Gambetta grew up in the ancient port city of Genoa, Italy. His mother and father were “opera people,” fond of music, he says. Gambetta was more than fond of […]
PEACEMAKERS
Art That Bridges Divides
An exhibition honors the legacy and vision of Martin Luther King Jr.
Walking into the current exhibition at Wellfleet Preservation Hall, one is greeted by Jo Hay’s oversize painting of the country’s youngest inaugural poet, Amanda Gorman. On the opposite wall is […]
POETRY
First Rain at the New House
Comes at night as if from a great distance muffled, like one half asleep. Last year we slept under skylights close to the weather. It rained last night I say. […]
POETRY
Sal’s
They are older, seated in the corner. It is warm and amber in the small room. The busy waiter signals with his hand — one minute! — and they nod […]
Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for January 16, 2024 through January 23, 2025
Writers and Readers at Castle Hill Novelist Karen Dukess will talk with Deborah Jackson Taffa, a citizen of the Yuma Nation and Laguna Pueblo and author of Whiskey Tender, a […]
IN THE STUDIO
The Ebb and Flow of a Life in Art
Helen Miranda Wilson’s journey of ‘digression and precision’
Helen Miranda Wilson’s studio sits at the center of her Wellfleet house, which was built in the 1850s. The studio seems set up for ideas to unravel and find form: […]
INDIE SCREEN
Gazing at Stars When Times Are a-Changing
Two new prize-worthy films look at an artist and ecology anew
Just who is Bob Dylan? It’s impossible to pin down the man born Robert Allen Zimmerman in Duluth, Minn. in 1941, because his persona as songwriter and performer has always […]
