After 35 years in business, Albert Merola and Jim Balla announced last month that their gallery at 424 Commercial St. in Provincetown’s East End will not reopen for the 2023 […]
Arts & Minds
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ART AND ACCESS
Where Time and Space Are at a Premium
Artists and institutions grapple with the challenge of creating studios
As housing has grown increasingly difficult to secure in Provincetown, so have art studios. It’s not a recent problem. In 1992, the artist Joyce Johnson, a founder of the Truro […]
WRITERS
Hannah Perrin King Captures the Mundane and the Majestic
A poet finds inspiration in things that are ‘constantly coming undone at the seams’
Hannah Perrin King entered college with a foolproof plan: complete pre-med coursework, major in English, and become a doctor who writes prose in her spare time. But thanks to a […]
ARTISTS
The Intimacies of Blake Daniels
Paintings that render friends and lovers in mystical landscapes
Since arriving in Provincetown in October to begin a fellowship at the Fine Arts Work Center, Blake Daniels has spent “an unnerving amount of time just standing by the sea.” […]
Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for Feb. 16, 2023 through Feb. 23, 2023
Dario Acosta Teich Wants You to Feel the Music Dario Acosta Teich grew up in a musical family in Tucumán, one of the smallest provinces in Argentina. He first began […]
INDIE SCREEN
When All That Glitters Is Not Gold
It’s Oscar season in the twilight of Hollywood
When the Covid lockdown happened back in March 2020, it accelerated shifts that were already in progress in the movie industry. Fewer people were seeing films in theaters, and streaming […]
BOOKS
Our ‘Yacking’ Democratic Genius
In a new memoir, Robert Pinsky explains what made him a poet — and what makes America poetic
“One way or another, people have more poetry in them than you might think,” insists Robert Pinsky. In 2000, this conviction prompted Pinsky, then the United States Poet Laureate, to […]
WRITERS
Writing That Shows Us Who We Really Are
A ‘stubborn fan’ of the short story explores complicated and difficult inner lives
Writer and current Fine Arts Work Center fellow Willie Fitzgerald calls himself a “stubborn fan” of the short story. “Dedicated short story writers and readers tend to be fewer in […]
ARTISTS
Pieter Paul Pothoven’s Art Had the Dutch ‘Fuming’
The FAWC fellow explores the politics and complexities of how history is told
Unlike the studios of many of his peers at the Fine Arts Work Center, Dutch artist Pieter Paul Pothoven’s is colorless and bare — aside from some grainy black-and-white printouts […]
Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for Feb. 9, 2023 through Feb. 16, 2023
The Mosquito Creates a Buzz The Mosquito Story Slam’s Valentine’s Day edition, “What I Did for Love,” will take place at the Provincetown Theater (238 Bradford St.) on Saturday, Feb. […]
NAVIGATING BY THE STARS
We’re on a Rather Bumpy Road to Valentine’s Day
At least, as Venus and Neptune suggest, sometimes love is only skin deep
Here in the starry stillness between the full Moon in Leo and the new Moon in Pisces, Valentine’s Day approaches. Alas, it won’t be all chocolates and roses. On this […]
ARCHITECTURE
Women Who Helped Define a New Direction
Martha Rothman explores what enabled them to succeed in ‘a man’s profession’
Martha Rothman recalls the awe of first encountering E-1027, the sprawling modernist villa that Irish architect Eileen Gray designed for herself and her lover in the south of France. Built […]
INDIE SCREEN
Tales of Innocence and Experience
A gay fat man and a sweet donkey come undone
Director Darren Aronofsky — winner of the Provincetown International Film Festival’s 2011 Filmmaker on the Edge award — has never been known for subtlety. He wallows in garishly surreal psychological […]
THEATER
Thirty Years On, ‘Chicago’ Still Dazzles
A Broadway star is born as Jinkx Monsoon plays Matron ‘Mama’ Morton
NEW YORK CITY — At a recent performance of Chicago at the Ambassador Theater on West 49th Street, a rumble of anticipation preceded Jinkx Monsoon’s entrance on stage. The two-time […]
IN THE STUDIO
Navigating Pleasure and Politics Through Art
Personal expression and political tension are central to Ruby T’s creative process
For Ruby T, who moved to Provincetown in 2021 after living in Chicago for more than a decade, making art is a means to explore overlaps between the political and […]
