DENNIS — The Ukrainian flag — unfamiliar to many before this year but now ubiquitous — is an abstract landscape: a brilliant blue sky above the golden expanse of a […]
Arts & Minds
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STAR POWER
Christine Ebersole, With Love From Easy Street
The two-time Tony-winning star comes to Provincetown to ring in the New Year
PROVINCETOWN — Christine Ebersole’s résumé includes notable roles in films like Amadeus, Tootsie, and The Wolf of Wall Street, and her television credits require a deep scroll on IMDb: from […]
ART AND ACCESS
Castle Hill and Morgan State Join Forces for Equity
A new residency in Truro is designed to extend professional opportunities to young Black artists
TRURO — Andre Davis, 23, graduated this month from Morgan State, a historically Black university in Baltimore. His first steps out of college have brought him to Truro, where he […]
BOOKS
Samuel Adams, Fake News, and the Founding of America
In a new biography, Stacy Schiff recovers the ‘Machiavelli of chaos’ who made the revolution
In their affectionate geriatric correspondence, old political rivals Thomas Jefferson and John Adams agreed that it was “difficult to say at what moment the revolution began.” Was it in 1765, […]
Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for Dec. 22 through Dec. 29, 2022
Small Is Good “It’s About Size,” a group show of small works of art in various media, is on view at Bowersock Gallery (373 Commercial St., Provincetown) through Jan. 4. […]
CULTURAL ARCHEOLOGY
In the Wellfleet Woods, Relics of the Bauhaus Avant-Garde
A group of scholars studies a long-lost trove of Christmas cards, poems, and notes on nudism
WELLFLEET — There was treasure hidden deep within the pitch pine woods of Wellfleet — and, according to Elizabeth Otto, one of four scholars who participated in a residency overseen […]
INDIE SCREEN
Thanks for the Memories
Two new films about gay men recall the real-life struggles of their authors
There’s something naggingly cheeky about the title of TV entertainment journalist Michael Ausiello’s memoir, Spoiler Alert: The Hero Dies — it’s the story of Ausiello’s 14-year relationship with photographer Kit […]
MUSIC
Celebrating 50 Years of Sweet Honey in the Rock
Voices and musical styles come together in an ensemble’s dedication to song and social justice
“Music does everything for me,” says Aisha Kahlil. “It heals me. It uplifts me. It has brought me back from the brink of despair.” Kahlil is a vocalist in the […]
IN THE LOBBY
Outer Cape Banks Circulate Cultural Currency
The tradition of displaying local art continues at one bank — and is being reconsidered at another
If you don’t do much banking in person, the art on display in banks on the Outer Cape might be a good reason to venture beyond the app on your […]
BOOKS
‘The Passenger’ Misses the Plot
Cormac McCarthy’s first novel in 16 years is ‘portentous’ — and pretentious
Cormac McCarthy’s novels like Blood Meridian, his 1985 story about twisted characters annihilating one another in a mythic American West, reveal a smart, dark view of humanity. Now 89, McCarthy […]
Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for Dec. 15 through Dec. 22, 2022
Eileen Myles Privileges the Pathetic “In general poems are pathetic and diaries are pathetic,” writes Eileen Myles in the introduction to Pathetic Literature, an anthology published last month by Grove […]
IN THE STUDIO
Cole Barash’s Photographic Adventures, Near and Far
Exploring subcultures, communities, and the relationship between humans and the natural world
WELLFLEET — Last April, Cole Barash spent three days on the back shore making photographs to accompany a Thoreau-inspired essay by Eileen Myles called A Walk on Cape Cod. During […]
OPERA
Michael Cunningham’s ‘The Hours’ Unfolds on the Stage
The author discusses adaptation — and resurrection — in the Metropolitan Opera’s rendition of his novel
Michael Cunningham isn’t particularly interested in faithful adaptations of his work. His Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Hours, which was turned into an acclaimed film by Stephen Daldry, has now become […]
BOOKS
Going Out in Search of Identity
Jeremy Atherton Lin’s memoir looks back at the gay bars that made him who he is
Jeremy Atherton Lin’s Gay Bar: Why We Went Out is a memoir of a booze- and sex-soaked search for identity. Despite the subtitle, it’s really about why he went out: […]
INDIE SCREEN
Reporters Are the Heroes in ‘She Said’
Unearthing the truth about sexual assault and harassment in Hollywood
In the movie industry, nearly everyone knew that Harvey Weinstein was a monster. More accurately, they knew that he was an exceptionally brutal monster — because among the men (and […]
