To Provincetown, With Love New York City-based singer-musician David Raleigh first came to Provincetown 20 years ago. Raleigh and his then-boyfriend (now husband) fell in love with the town, which […]
Arts & Minds
Celebrating the creative and sometimes quirky culture of the Outer Cape.
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NO RETURN
Sara Moran Tells a Story of Survival
Art that imagines a ‘post-apocalyptic Wellfleet’ in multiple mediums
Outside her home in the woods of South Wellfleet, Sara Moran is making a shrine. The broken seat of a wooden chair leans against a piece of wood, which is […]
DRAG DESK
Sapphira Cristál Keeps It in the Family
The drag queen and opera singer is a grand marshal for this year’s Carnival parade
Don’t tell JD Vance, but a church is a great place to nurture a future drag queen. She can develop an arsenal of talents: singing, sewing, working a crowd. And […]
SING OUT
Mozelle Andrulot Comes Full Circle
The Cape Cod crooner makes time for family, a corporate job, and a swinging jazz career
It isn’t much of a surprise to learn that Mozelle Andrulot was a musical child. “My mother said that I didn’t talk at first — I sang everything,” she says. […]
SCULPTURE
Ellen LeBow Begins Again in Bas-Relief
The Wellfleet artist shapes a personal bestiary in clay
Over decades of artmaking, Ellen LeBow has forged her own path through stages and styles, figurative rather than abstract. The luminous scratchboard drawings she shows at Rice Polak Gallery in […]
THEATER
Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Dog?
Not Brenda Withers, whose new play, Westminster, is sublime satire
There’s a threat weighing on the two couples who inhabit a pleasant living room in Brenda Withers’s hilarious new play, Westminster, at the Harbor Stage Company in Wellfleet through Sept. […]
THEATER
Friendship in a Season of Compromise
Two women change each other in David Auburn’s moving Summer, 1976
So many friendships are born of circumstance — two people become roommates, neighbors, parents at the same time, or co-workers — and the experience can be intense for a time, […]
POETRY
Three Poems
Night-Blooming Cereus It wakes us to say to bloom once is not nothing. Night Once in a while –– sparks between people –– so stars can see everything they’re missing. […]
POETRY
Compensation
I think I understand. Without sufficient love, they compensate with hatred, not seeing how bountiful (how bountiful) it all really is… Rob Taylor’s Ads for Simplicity was published in 2013. He […]
Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for August 15, 2024 through August 22, 2024
Bob Mackie, Still Sparkling If you close your eyes and picture some of the most memorable celebrity fashion looks of the past half century — particularly the more revealing ones […]
CROSSWORD #55
Renaissance x REvolution
LOST AND FOUND
Tom Deininger Turns Chaos Into Catharsis
The assemblage artist finds materials in a ‘dream state,’ then gets down to work
Mounted on the wall at Jeff Soderbergh Gallery in Wellfleet is a large striped bass. From a distance, the fish looks natural and seamless — an iridescent specimen with a […]
LIFE OF THE MIND
Forum 24 Asks, ‘What Is an Artist?’
A symposium explores tradition, transformation, and uselessness
About 70 people crowded into the Robert Charles and Lorraine Bauer Duffy Family Gallery at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum on July 31 to contemplate the question “What is […]
MIXED MEDIA
Working Toward Imperfectionism
Elspeth Slayter layers colors over artifacts and memories
In Elspeth Slayter’s mixed-media works, paint is pressed on paint, layer after layer: a web of yellow covers a block of cayenne red; sky blue buoys are bruised with violet; […]
DRAG DESK
In the Audience With Miss Richfield
In her new show, the drag queen masters the art of loving schadenfreude
Nathaniel is a lawyer from Boston. (Actually, he’s from Milton, which sounds nice but also boring.) He’s here with his children, Teddy and Sophia. It’s Family Week in Provincetown, meaning […]
