What is known about Edith Lake Wilkinson: she was a woman, a visual artist, a painter, printer, and draftsman; she was a pioneer of white-line printing; she lived in New […]
Arts & Minds
Celebrating the creative and sometimes quirky culture of the Outer Cape.
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YES, HONEY!
Group Therapy With Varla Jean Merman
In ‘Ready to Blow,’ Varla Jean tracks the source of her anxiety and yours
Steve and Joey, a couple from Philadelphia who have been married for seven years, are sitting in the front row of drag queen Varla Jean Merman’s show. They’re a young […]
BOOK REVIEW
American Racism’s Musical Score
Emily Bingham dismantles her Old Kentucky Home
Federal Hill, a restored antebellum plantation house in Bardstown, Ky. better known as the Old Kentucky Home, opened its doors to statewide fanfare and a throng of visitors on July […]
THE STROLL
Wellfleet, Saturday Night
Seen and heard on the weekly gallery ramble
Front Porch Gallery, 210 Baker Ave. At the Front Porch Gallery, on the screened-in, cozy front porch of Susan Siegel’s house, Siegel points to her own piece, Bird in Flight, […]
Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for August 4 through August 10, 2022
Barbara Cohen at Land’s End Gallery and Books Artist and photographer Barbara Cohen shows her work at the Land’s End Gallery and Books until Aug. 7. The pieces are original […]
ART OUTSIDERS
Where Plein Air Is for Painting and Selling
On the lawn and in the Seashore, a guild gathers artists and their work
EASTHAM — The white tents are up, a summer ritual that fills the lawn of the 1869 Schoolhouse Museum. Under their shade, browsers rub elbows with painters, collect, and gossip. […]
DESIGN
Creating Works That ‘Take the Place of Things’
How two Outer Cape logos have settled into our visual vocabularies
The Nike swoosh; McDonald’s golden arches; the Macintosh apple. These designs are deeply ingrained in our visual vocabularies, recognized in a space where image and commerce mingle. “Logos take the […]
THE MOVIES
After 65 Years, the Wellfleet Drive-In Is Still a Classic
For reasons that are a bit mysterious, the Cape’s last drive-in survives
WELLFLEET — On summer evenings before dusk, the parade of cars begins. Minivans, pick-up trucks, Volkswagen buses, and sedans inch down the long driveway of the Wellfleet Drive-In Theater. They […]
HELPING HANDS
Lauren Ewing Explores the Possibilities of the Human Hand
The artist shows two suites of works finger-painted with carbon black soot
Lauren Ewing is wearing a narrow pin that she designed and fabricated. In lower case, it reads “everything speaks.” “My art is all about the world that we live in, […]
NO HIDING
Amy Ford’s Paintings of the Open Road
An artist finds her identity after a long journey
Amy Ford has titled her solo show at the Provincetown Commons “The Open Road” after Walt Whitman’s poem “Song of the Open Road” because it so well describes her own […]
ANTI-IMPERIALISM
Mali Obomsawin Questions ‘Good Old American Values’
The activist, bassist, and songwriter creates music and community
The systems of the colonized Western world tend to put things in boxes. We categorize and separate music by genre. We separate politics from emotion from community from art. Mali […]
THE KEY
Chamber Music for the Heart, Soul, and Spirit
The Verona and Ariel quartets believe in egoless collaboration
Abigail Rojansky, violist of the Verona String Quartet, remembers having an out-of-body experience while rehearsing for the quartet’s upcoming performance in Wellfleet. “I forgot that I existed,” she says. “It […]
LINE BREAK
A Poem That Loosely Follows Summer’s Brush
In Kimiko Hahn’s Wellfleet sojourn, a jumble of memories, worries, and relationships
Summer unfurls to reveal the Cape Cod most people imagine: sandy, sticky, hedonistic, salty. There’s a looseness to the air. Right now, the lush chestnut tree outside the window is […]
BOOK REVIEW
Where the Seeds of Self-Doubt Are Sown
Matthew Clark Davison explores the mysteries of brotherhood and deficiencies of tolerance
Matthew Clark Davison has a reputation among Bay Area writers as one of those teachers you never forget — insightful, funny, immune to excuses, and with an uncanny talent to […]
Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for July 28 through August 3, 2022
Peggy Flaum at Miriam Dretler Gallery The Miriam Dretler Gallery, one of Provincetown’s newest, at 283 Commercial St., presents an exhibition of Peggy Flaum’s drawings and paintings. The show, which […]
