Even today, as Donald Trump recklessly exploits the xenophobia of American voters, the Statue of Liberty, rising majestically in New York Harbor, is a powerful symbol of New World freedom […]
Arts & Minds
Celebrating the creative and sometimes quirky culture of the Outer Cape.
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LITTLE PEOPLE
Fairies Live Here — Believe It or Not
A new book by Andrew Warburton chronicles stories and sightings from across New England
If you want to see a fairy, says Andrew Warburton, all you have to do is find a four-leaf clover and place it on your forehead. He’s never found a […]
BOOK FESTIVAL
The Way We Teach Ourselves to See
Vinson Cunningham’s novel is set in Obama’s campaign for president
While New Yorker theater critic Vinson Cunningham’s Great Expectations is an autobiographical novel based on his experiences as a young staffer on Barack Obama’s first presidential run, it is not […]
BOOKS
Indie Reads: Back to School Edition
Nonfiction selections that will expand your horizons
For this installment of Indie Reads, we asked members of the Independent staff to offer some book recommendations now that summer is over and the transition from frothy beach reads […]
Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for September 19, 2024 through September 26, 2024
Immigrants’ Stories at Cape Rep Nina Zoie Lam was drawn to direct Lloyd Suh’s 2023 play The Heart Sellers at the Cape Rep Theatre in part because it reminds her of her […]
RESIDENCY
Free to Frame a Boundless World
In the austerity of the dunes, Lili Chin finds a creative reset
Living for three weeks in a dune shack tucked in a hollow by the Atlantic, Lili Chin found the landscape both daunting and inspiring. “There’s a boundlessness that’s almost intimidating,” […]
PERFORMANCE ART
Creating the Future From Pieces of the Past
Lee and Tennessee spotlights two artists who reconfigured their Provincetown memories
In 1976, artist Lee Krasner took scissors to a pile of still-life charcoal and figure drawings from her late-1930s art classes with Provincetown’s Hans Hofmann. She turned the triangular shards […]
BOOK TALK
Muppets and Murder in Moscow
Natasha Lance Rogoff tells the strange story of a post-Cold War cultural exchange
In 1992, a year after the collapse of the Soviet Union, American television producer and reporter Natasha Lance Rogoff accepted the role of executive producer for a new project: Ulitsa […]
CUMULONIMBUS
It’s Cloud Illusions He Recalls
Layers of color shape Steve Bowersock’s imaginary skies
It’s never a clear day in a Bowersock painting. His clouds — rising over sparkling water or looming over farmland — suggest narratives, but ethereal ones. “My skies aren’t real,” […]
LAND AND WATER
The Disorienting Clarity of a Captured Moment
David Gonville’s paintings are like jam sessions, recorded
In David Gonville’s painting July at Davis Farm, the outline of a gable-roofed house, sketched onto a landscape of yellow, looks as though it might float away. Not only that […]
POETRY
Two Poems by Kary Wayson
Sweet Spring Summer in the Morning Afternoon Room-warm tea in the chipped blue cup. My husband — how I love him! — has gone off across the water we can […]
Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for September 12, 2024 through September 19, 2024
American Roots and Rock at Payomet The Adam Ezra Group is a case study in how seismic shifts in the music industry have radically altered the way musicians and fans […]
I WITNESS
The Viewer and the Viewed in the ‘Eye of the Storm’
Susan Bee’s work encompasses calm and turbulence, poetry and painting
Stare into Susan Bee’s Eye of the Storm, a painting prominently displayed at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum, and you’ll observe bundles of tightly knit red, white, and blue […]
VISUAL ART
Wayfinding in Paint and Pliable Planes
Liz Collins is making art that’s ‘quick and dirty’
Liz Collins takes some of her artwork off the wall of her studio at Provincetown’s Fine Arts Work Center. She lays it on the scuffed-up cement floor. The works are […]
PAINTING
The Haunted Memories of Larry Collins
The artist’s work looks back at the Vietnam War and the recognition of his sexuality
Provincetown artist Larry Collins stands over the kitchen sink in his apartment on Alden Street stirring an iced coffee. Every turn of the spoon is considered. Collins’s hair is neatly […]
