In Saving America’s Cities, the prize-winning historian Lizabeth Cohen bends over backwards to be fair to Ed Logue, the architect of efforts in New Haven, then Boston, and finally New […]
Arts & Minds
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Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for September 8 through September 15, 2022
Christopher Pothier Works in the Shadows In his artist statement for “Wrangling With Shadows,” a new show at Bowersock Gallery (373 Commercial St., Provincetown), Christopher Pothier lists a handful of […]
OUTER CAPE PORTRAIT
Rebuilding Thalassa
NAT BULL / BUILDER & SHACK WIZARD / THE PROVINCE LANDS
Nat Bull is a master carpenter who learned the trades building custom houses in Chatham and then worked as the shop teacher in Provincetown until the high school graduated its […]
KIND OF BLUE
Drawing With Light and Making Magic
Three Provincetown artists take one of the oldest photographic techniques in new directions
When a new medium was unveiled in 1839 that miraculously seemed to fix images from an ever-changing reality onto a permanent surface, the British scientist and polymath Sir John Herschel […]
POETRY
Looking Back at a Provincetown That Was
Gabrielle Rilleau layers family, place, and memory in a new collection of poems
Fishing villages know the sea will take what it wants. Storms roll in, boats sink, and accidents happen. In her new book of poems, No Room for Slippage, Gabrielle Rilleau […]
THEATER REVIEW
WHAT Presents a Feminist Fantasia on the Reign of Terror
Lauren Gunderson’s The Revolutionists is a four-woman romp
The French Revolution that began in 1789, like the American one before it, is not known for its women fighters. The Enlightenment manifesto of the uprising is notably entitled the […]
BACK SHORE
Pete Hocking and the Embodied Experience
Through his painting, the artist takes viewers on journeys through land and sea
Pete Hocking is many things: image maker, teacher, community organizer, blogger, curator — and the possessor of one of the Outer Cape’s most notable beards. “And I’m a big walker,” […]
QUEER ‘I’
Ta-Ta for Now to All That
A writer reflects on returning to Provincetown after a year away
It is a showy move to begin a personal essay with a Virginia Woolf quote, but I am a showy person. So, here is Woolf: “What does it mean, then? […]
POETRY
Two Sonnets From the Pandemic
John Okrent’s first book, This Costly Season: A Crown of Sonnets, was published by Arrowsmith Press in 2021. Okrent is a family doctor who works at the Sea Mar Community […]
Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for September 1 through September 8, 2022
Art in Flux at Alden Gallery Abstraction and representation are usually seen as opposite — if not antagonistic — modes of artistic expression. According to Alden Gallery owner Howard Karren, […]
WORKSHOP
Free Jazz Ceramics Class: Variations on a Theme
Jeff Shapiro leads students toward experimentation
Jeff Shapiro likes to break the mold of what ceramics students are typically taught in class. “I’m not particularly interested in teaching technique,” he says. In a recent class at […]
JOURNEYS
Mary Heaton Vorse Is Coming Home
Sculptor Penelope Jencks helps the legendary Provincetown author return to the place she loved the most
More than 50 years after her death, writer and activist Mary Heaton Vorse will be returning to her home in Provincetown’s East End thanks to a sculpture project by Wellfleet […]
MARSHLAND
This Ineffable Thing
Jennifer Moller reflects deeply on one tidal pool
On a snowy day in 2011, Jennifer Moller was on a Wellfleet marsh with her medium-format camera, looking for images. She photographed a singular tidal pool, positioning it at the […]
HOT SHOTS
Bobby Miller’s Decisive Moments
45 years of a fabulous life behind the lens, on view at AMP Gallery
It happened one evening at Studio 54: Halston entered the legendary nightclub and was about to check his coat and fur hat. Ten feet away, Bobby Miller spotted his prey […]
LINE BREAK
Mad Libs Poetry: Pushing the World Away to See It Anew
Alexander DuToit brings Sam Hamill’s heron into the darkroom
This month I asked Alexander DuToit, a senior at Nauset Regional High School, if he’d “Mad Lib” a poem — that is, take an existing poem and swap out everything […]
