On a long wooden table in the quiet confines of the Cobb Archive in Truro, the beasts don’t circle as much as they overlap, still menacing but yellowed with time. […]
Arts & Minds
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MUSIC AND ART
Garrett Dutton Finds a Different Rhythm
For this musician, painting is a source of freedom untethered from expectations
Garrett Dutton is best known by his stage name, G. Love. Since the early 1990s, he’s fronted the hip-hop blues band G. Love and Special Sauce, which maintains an active […]
INDIE SCREEN
The Cinematic Art of Forbidden Fruit
Queer and Anora serve up a naughty feast
William S. Burroughs is a familiar figure in the countercultural Beat movement, along with his friends Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac. He is also one of the greatest and most […]
MUSIC
From Eastham to Hollywood and Home Again
Natalia Bonfini is a different musician after American Idol
Four years ago, Natalia Bonfini, who grew up in Eastham, found herself in Nashville, face to face with American Idol judges Katy Perry, Lionel Richie, and Luke Bryan. She would […]
FICTION
What We Carry With Us
Phone. Wallet. Keys. A modicum of dignity. An ocean of guilt. For me, the humiliation of Bobby Chandler beating me up in fourth grade. For her, a grandmother’s dictum that […]
Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for December 26, 2024 through January 2, 2025
John Shuman Is Looking for Answers Wellfleet-based actor and memoirist John Shuman has a lot of questions about the important things we often take for granted, like laughter, music, and […]
CROSSWORD #58
Winter Wonderland
ARTISTS
Variations on a Theme
A Greenwich Village exhibit invites us into Pat de Groot’s studio by the sea
The gallery at the New York Studio School on West 8th Street was empty of people when I visited Provincetown artist Pat de Groot’s posthumous survey exhibition, “Sea Smoke,” the […]
THE PRESENT MOMENT
Building a Home and a Community Through Art
Fred Boak and Naomi Rush compiled their art collection by gift-giving in a ‘late romance’
In a sunny room of her Orleans house, Naomi Rush begins a tour of her art collection with a black-and-white linocut by Joyce Johnson titled Salt Pond — Winter. Rush’s […]
THE THOUGHT FOX
A Life in Poetry With No ‘Excess Stuff’
Keith Althaus discusses his past, process, and pursuit of the perfect line
“Pick a chair,” says poet Keith Althaus, welcoming me to his house on Shore Road in North Truro. He and his wife, Susan Baker, have lived in the house since […]
Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for December 19, 2024 through December 26, 2024
Donald Beal’s Painterly Drama An exhibition of paintings by Donald Beal now at the Wellfleet Adult Community Center (715 Old King’s Hwy.) displays three bodies of work: landscapes of grand, […]
AN ARTIST’S LEGACY
A Family History, Recorded in Christmas Cards
Barbara Haven Malicoat was ‘the best grandmother ever’
Sculptor Breon Dunigan, sitting at her kitchen table in Truro, remembers the Christmastime haircuts well. She and her siblings and cousins — the six granddaughters of Provincetown artist Barbara Haven […]
CONNECTIONS
Bringing Artists ‘Side by Side’ in Orleans
A joint effort by two galleries fosters new dialogues
An exhibition currently on view in Orleans combines works from two galleries: Orleans Modern Art and Garvey Rita Art & Antiques. Titled “Side by Side,” the show draws aesthetic connections […]
’TIS THE SEASON
Artists and Gallerists Deck the Halls
Small works shows offer holiday gifts
Inside his studio gallery tucked into Provincetown’s Whalers Wharf, artist Gaston Lacombe is embellishing a tree. Not a Christmas tree, but a tree painted on a large panel in bright […]
ART
Techspressionism Rocks the Boat
Cape and Canadian artists create moving images for an oceanic exhibition
Forty years ago, artist Karen LaFleur realized that she could make designs using a dot matrix printer. She painstakingly typed alternating Xs, Os, symbols, and blank spaces on her computer […]
