Ten writers — poets, essayists, novelists, and memoirists — arrived in Provincetown earlier this month to begin their seven-month-long fellowships at the Fine Arts Work Center. FAWC fellowship writing coordinator […]
Arts & Minds
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BOOK REVIEW
Bouncing Through the Filth
With Liarmouth, John Waters — screenwriter, director, visual artist, and cultural icon — adds novelist to his résumé
Anyone from John Waters’s legion of fans may be forgiven for cracking the spine of Liarmouth: A Feel-Bad Romance with some trepidation. Has time mellowed his edges? Is a softer, […]
ARTISTS ON ART
Celebrating Five Decades of Castle Hill
Artists reflect on their work and the Castle Hill experience
This fall, the 50th anniversary of the Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill has been marked by several group shows celebrating the vast network of artists associated with […]
Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for October 27 through November 3, 2022
Things That Go Bump in the Frame “Night,” a group show at Four Eleven Gallery (411 Commercial St., Provincetown), features work by six artists that explores the dark side. Highlights […]
IN THE GALLERIES
Erika Wastrom’s Imagined Realities
Finding art as a ‘spiritual corrective’ in an unsteady world
Erika Wastrom’s paintings depict uncanny worlds that seem equal parts imagined and observed. Despite recognizable elements — a shopping cart, a child’s sippy cup — there is a playful oddity […]
FELLOWSHIP
Welcoming the 2022-23 FAWC Visual Arts Fellows
Ten artists from around the globe step into Provincetown
The Fine Arts Work Center welcomed 10 visual arts fellows this month for seven-month-long residencies in Provincetown. Executive Director Sharon Polli says the fellowship program is central to the Work […]
PLANTCRAFT
Milisa Moses Stirs Up the Alchemy of Blues and Browns
Making art with pigments from indigo leaves and oak galls
Like many artists on the Outer Cape, Milisa Moses finds creative inspiration in the landscape. But Moses weaves the environment into her process as well as into her product. Moses […]
FUTURE TENSE
The Artist in the Machine
The promise and pitfalls of creating art with artificial intelligence
In his 1868 prose poem Les Chants de Maldoror, the self-styled Comte de Lautrémont described a young man as being as beautiful as the “chance encounter of a sewing machine […]
Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for October 20 through October 27, 2022
Closing One Door and Opening Another As impresario of Art Market Provincetown, gallerist Debbie Nadolney has fostered a communal space centered on creativity. A celebration marking the end of AMP’s […]
BREATHING ROOM
Longing for a Place to Call Home
Alejandra Cuadra Sanchez’s experience as an immigrant informs her multimedia art
Alejandra Cuadra Sanchez, who was born in Peru and immigrated to Orleans when she was eight, makes multimedia art that is as much an exploration of identity and self as […]
IN THE GALLERIES
Portrait of the Artist as a Group Show
Megan Hinton explores a different mode of self-expression in ‘Together With’
End-of-season group shows can be an undemanding way for galleries to take a breather after a busy stretch of solo exhibitions and heavy visitor traffic. But for artist and curator […]
POETRY
Students and Vets Join Forces for Peace
Young poets reflect on loss, fear, and hope
In her poem “Peace,” Ana Maldacker, a seventh-grade student in the Provincetown Schools’ International Baccalaureate program, describes an image of loss: An empty carriage in a town square, as a […]
ARTISTS
Jack Coughlin Makes His Marks
A retrospective charts the artist’s 60-year fascination with people and animals
Jack Coughlin’s Golden Cod Gallery has been a Wellfleet mainstay since he and his wife Joan Hopkins took over the space in 1964. The low-lying shingled building stands near a […]
Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for October 13 through October 20, 2022
Dyke Drag Brunch Redux For the first time in 22 years, Dyke Drag Brunch will return to Provincetown this Saturday, Oct. 15, produced by Kayla Manjarrez and I’m Baby, who […]
TOWNSCAPES
The Van Dereck Collection: An Eye on the Past
PAAM’s fourth exhibition from Helen and Napi’s trove reveals Provincetown as a malleable subject
Provincetown’s identity is rooted in its history as a place where artists came to develop their vision in a community of creative peers. For many, it also served as their […]
