Warm Sounds for a Cold Night Music wafting over the waves and sand on a Rio de Janeiro beach is about the farthest thing from the vibe on the Outer […]
Arts & Minds
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AT THE MUSEUM
By Artists, for Artists (and Everyone Else)
The Members’ Juried Exhibition at PAAM highlights the continued excellence of working artists on the Outer Cape
I recently came across a digital copy of a bulletin for an exhibition at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum in 1935: a no-frills black-and-white publication filled with ads and […]
ART AND ACTIVISM
Arts of Renewal for Troubled Times
Jay Critchley’s 40th ‘post-consumption’ Re-Rooters Day ceremony is this weekend
Amidst the conflagration of World War II, William Carlos Williams — the 20th-century heir to Walt Whitman’s democratic American poetics — wrote a poem about destruction, creation, and the hope […]
LINE BREAK
Wind-Scoured and Gleaming
Marge Piercy’s instructions for living
Last month’s pre-Christmas storm is one we’ll be remembering for years. The damage to homes, businesses, and infrastructure is heartbreaking and terrifying. Wildlife, too, took a beating, with many sea […]
INDIE SCREEN
Coming of Age With the Help of Movies
Spielberg and del Toro look back with mixed feelings
There’s a scene near the end of The Fabelmans, Steven Spielberg’s autobiographical drama about his childhood and teenage years, where the budding filmmaker Sammy Fabelman is confronted by Logan, a […]
Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for Jan. 5, 2023 through Jan. 12, 2023
Katrine Hildebrandt-Hussey’s Quiet Dimensions With an M.F.A. in sculpture, Boston-based artist Katrine Hildebrandt-Hussey brings a three-dimensional sensibility to her two-dimensional pieces currently on view at Room 68 (377 Commercial St., […]
NEW YEAR'S CARD
Changing the Climate
2023 Art & Photography
When we settled on “Changing the Climate” as the theme of the Independent’s annual New Year’s art and photography issue for 2023, we told contributors that they could interpret the […]
INDIE SCREEN
Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, What’s the Greatest Film of All?
A once-a-decade list of the best films in the history of cinema contains several surprises
The esteemed film magazine Sight and Sound, which is published monthly by the British Film Institute, released its once-a-decade list of the 100 greatest films of all time on Dec. […]
TRASH AND TREASURE
From the Swap Shop to the Museum: Transforming Junk Into Art
Robert Rindler reflects on plastic, design, and making order out of chaos
WELLFLEET — When Robert Rindler was a young boy, he collected baseball cards. But unlike his brother, he wasn’t so concerned about the players: he was in it for the […]
Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for Dec. 29 through Jan. 5, 2022
The Art of Books Old books are getting new life as art pieces at the Eastham Public Library, which is gearing up for its annual Repurposed Art Book Contest and […]
AT THE MUSEUM
Margo and Zimiles: Ukrainian Roots Both Subtle and Explicit
Two exhibitions at the Cape Cod Museum of Art reflect the heritage and resilience of the Ukrainian people
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 […]
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. […]
