“They came unarmed. They came/ half-masked. They came/ before the crow. They came/ with the moon. They came/ moonless. They came/ out of rain. They came/ as their enemy. They […]
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Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for March 31 through April 6, 2022
Prints at Preservation Hall A show of original prints by members of the Printmakers of Cape Cod will be on view at Wellfleet Preservation Hall, 335 Main St., from Friday, […]
NOTHING LIKE THE SUN
At the Beech
The Beech Forest Trail off Race Point Road in the Province Lands of the Cape Cod National Seashore beckons spring birdwatchers and seekers of peace. (Photo by Agata Storer)
ARTISTS
Cataloguing the Permanent and the Ephemeral
S. Emsaki considers ‘what’s art and what’s not’
The title of S. Emsaki’s show at the Fine Arts Work Center’s Hudson D. Walker Gallery, “Some Things Last a Long Time,” refers to the plastics that she collects and […]
WRITERS
Molly Anders’s Characters Confess All
‘Funny accounts of downfall’ from a childhood filled with AA meetings
A huge water heater lives in the middle of writer Molly Anders’s tiny kitchen. “This is Louis,” she says, gesturing as she makes coffee. She says all the other Fine […]
DAY FOR UKRAINE
Making Prints for Peace
Local artists get their hands dirty to help Ukrainian refugees
A couple of Wednesdays ago, a dozen artists gathered in the Fine Arts Work Center’s printmaking studio. They had been invited to create prints and donate them to “A Day […]
Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for March 24 through March 30, 2022
Sneak Peek at CCMoA “First Look,” a show of recent acquisitions at the Cape Cod Museum of Art, runs through May 15 at 60 Hope Lane in Dennis. Among the […]
ARTISTS
Battling the Elements for Art’s Sake
Elizabeth Flood paints layers of history and meaning
As an elementary-school student in Virginia, Elizabeth Flood found a Civil War bullet while digging in the sand at recess. “It was on my radar at a very early age […]
MUSICIANS
Jon Richardson Composes an Ode to Gay Old Provincetown
Songs from his musical-in-progress, Jack of Hearts, will get a public hearing
“My first love is theater,” says Jon Richardson, a Provincetown musician known for his piano bar gigs at Tin Pan Alley and the Crown & Anchor. Or, perhaps, you may […]
WRITERS
Wandering the Topkapı Palace With Zeynep Özakat
A ‘novel in protest’ about a haunted harem
“Narrative weaves through many aspects of our lives in ways we are often not even aware of,” says the Turkish-born writer Zeynep Özakat. Her first novel, which she is working […]
CELTIC MUSIC
Rose Clancy’s Irresistible Irish Sessions
Fiddlers keep a 30-year-old Cape Cod tradition alive
“All it takes is two people to have an Irish session,” says fiddler Rose Clancy of Chatham, who has been hosting Celtic jam sessions in pubs and restaurants on Cape […]
Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for March 17 through March 23, 2022
A Musical Embrace “It’s like a marriage with ups and downs,” says accordionist Vincent Peirani of his collaboration with soprano saxophonist Emile Parisien. The musical “odd couple” are performing a […]
ARTISTS
Nick Fagan’s Southern Comfort
Finding the ‘sincerity in banal objects’
Fine Arts Work Center visual fellow Nick Fagan knows the power of a good, weighty blanket. The bright colors and soft textures are a balm for troubled minds in turbulent […]
INSTALLATIONS
Blurring the Line Between Sculpture and Photography
Clint Baclawski combines light with undulating form
Clint Baclawski’s installation Bound/ary at Room 68 is a welcome reprieve of light and color on a blustery winter day in Provincetown. The installation consists of a folding screen where […]
INDIE SCREEN
A Mixed Bag of Oscar Hopefuls
Spanish moms, a pretender to the Scottish throne, and a child of deaf adults
As fans of Spanish writer-director Pedro Almodóvar well know, his films combine personal narrative obsessions and familiar stylized production design with a kind of raw, emotional reality that we all […]
