Art Demonstrations at Addison “Live Music and Art Demonstrations,” a benefit for Helping Our Women and the Cape Wellness Collaborative, will be held at Addison Art Gallery, 43 South Orleans […]
Arts & Minds
Celebrating the creative and sometimes quirky culture of the Outer Cape.
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ARTISTS
Why Lavaughan Jenkins Is Not a Sculptor
His work honors the women who shaped him
Fine Arts Work Center fellow Lavaughan Jenkins insists that his work is not sculpture. Even though it inhabits space in three dimensions, even though you can walk around it, he […]
IN THE STACKS
Every Child Is an Artist (and Vice Versa)
Juliet Kepes’s Bauhaus mural adorns the Wellfleet Public Library
There’s some serious art hanging in the kids’ section of the Wellfleet Public Library. A mural by Juliet Kepes features stylized animals cavorting on washy fields of color. It’s light […]
SIDE HUSTLES
Don’t Quit Your Day Job
Outer Cape artists juggle oyster harvests and dog walks to make a living
Naya Bricher grew up around creative people. Her father is an artist and graphic designer who freelanced — he worked when he could, and he had a kind of freedom. […]
INDIE PLAYLIST
A Selection of Musical Madeleines
Songs that evoke memories for Indie staff and contributors
For this first Indie Playlist of 2022, contributors were asked to pick songs that brought them back to a particular moment in their lives. Listen at tinyurl.com/wva345xe. ‘When It Rains,’ […]
Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for Feb 10 through Feb 16
Del Deo at the Vorse House The Provincetown Arts Society offers “A Closer Look at Salvatore Del Deo” at the Mary Heaton Vorse House, 466 Commercial St., Provincetown, through Sunday, […]
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ARTISTS
Horror Movie Imagery Meets Indigenous Identity
Jeremy Dennis’s Rise series says, ‘We’re still here’
“Noam Chomsky made the comparison that zombies are a reflection of fear and desperation, and that we in the United States try to make something that we’re oppressing into something […]
EXHIBITIONS
Joel Meyerowitz Comes Home
A show of faces and places from a past Provincetown
When Joel Meyerowitz started taking photographs of the Outer Cape in 1976, it was a break from the 35mm point-and-shoot work he was doing on the streets of New York. […]
OPERA
Boston Lyric Opera Throws a Beach Wedding
Svadba draws inspiration from far-flung Truro and Serbia
Boston Lyric Opera’s production of composer Ana Sokolovic’s Svadba begins not with music but with the sound of the wind at Truro’s Ballston Beach where it was filmed in October. […]
Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for Feb 3 through Feb 9
‘Empowerment’ at the Cultural Center Curated by recently appointed Executive Director Molly Demeulenaere, “Empowerment vs. Exploitation” opens at the Cultural Center of Cape Cod, 307 Old Main St. in South […]
IN THE STACKS
A Family Portrait Lost and Then Found
The story behind a haunting trio at the Eastham library
The Eastham Room of the town’s library is brimming with archival records. But just outside the room hangs a trio of 19th-century portraits of residents whose lives were rich with […]
IN THE STUDIO
A Painter’s Workspace, Perfectly Preserved
David Maril honors his father’s legacy
David Maril lives year-round in the house on Bradford Street in Provincetown where his father, Herman Maril, painted every summer from 1958 until his death in 1986. David winterized the […]
BOOK REVIEW
In Unthinkable, Memory Is Vital
A year later, Jamie Raskin reckons with his son’s suicide and the Jan. 6 insurrection
Congressman Jamie Raskin’s new memoir is about surviving the end of his world, and a warning about preventing the end of ours. On Dec. 31, 2020, his brilliant and empathetic […]
