A Patron’s Collection at the CCMoA Donations from generous patrons are the lifeblood of regional art museum collections. A case in point is Ann F. Bengtson, a former Falmouth resident […]
Arts & Minds
Celebrating the creative and sometimes quirky culture of the Outer Cape.
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ARTISTS
For Stephen Wells, ‘The Sky’s the Limit’
A Truro artist modernizes the traditional Provincetown print
If you’re ever in Pilgrim Framing admiring Stephen Wells’s paintings, be warned — the artist, who operates the shop out of his Old Firehouse Road home in North Truro, might […]
CODA
Delving Deeper Into Provincetown’s Musical History
Sometimes the best discoveries happen post-publication
Last summer, I received an intriguing Instagram message: “Hi, my name is also Saskia, but that’s not why I’m messaging you. I was Googling and came across your article on […]
IN THE STUDIO
Grace Hopkins’s Pristine Workspace
It complements the modernist house inherited from her father
Grace Hopkins doesn’t maintain an artist studio in the traditional sense. It is more of a processing center where she uploads digital photographs before printing them on squares of canvas […]
BOOK REVIEW
Meditations on the Tangled Cords of Jewish History
Dara Horn reckons with an anti-Semitic past and present
Organizations including the Pew Research Center, Anti-Defamation League, and American Jewish Committee all report an increase in anti-Semitic incidents in the last several years. These incidents have ranged from Holocaust […]
Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for Jan 6 through Jan 12
‘Pulp’ Fiction at the CCMoA Jane Eccles is best known for sensitive and vibrant plein air paintings of the Cape. But she also makes art using colored paper pulp. This […]
Art and Photography for a New Year
The theme of this end-of-year art and photography edition is “The Divine Comedy,” after Dante Alighieri’s epic poem written in the first years of the 14th century. Its three sections […]
INDIE SCREEN
The Wild, the Innocent, and the 125th Street Shuffle
Streaming the highlights of an end-of-year season
The title of Jane Campion’s haunting new film, The Power of the Dog (streaming on Netflix), comes from Psalm 22 in the Bible, which reads (in the King James version), […]
COMMUNITY
Contra Dancers Find Connection in Wellfleet
‘It doesn’t matter if you’re dancing with a woman or a man, gay, straight, or trans’
“Dance and swing. Turn your partner round and round! Chain across. Face your neighbor and do-si-do,” says John Alden over a microphone at Wellfleet Preservation Hall. “Looking good!” Alden is […]
Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for Dec 30 through Jan 5
Jessica Vosk at the Art House The Art House, 214 Commercial St. in Provincetown, welcomes vocalist Jessica Vosk for two nights: Friday, Dec. 31 and Saturday, Jan. 1 at 7 […]
CROSSWORD #29
Dark Times
HUMANITY
The Wondrous Words of Hilde Oleson
At 98, she is still inspiring others to write
“I’m almost a hundred years old,” says poet Hilde Oleson from her room at Seashore Point in Provincetown. “I’m not going to make myself a famous author, and that doesn’t […]
ARTISTS
Laurence Young Paints His Truth
Exploring the intersection of graphics, line, and painting
For Laurence Young, each painting is a journey into the unknown. “What I put down first on the canvas has nothing to do with what I’m going to do later,” […]
IN THE STUDIO
Hiding in Plain Sight
The artists who work in the oasis over the Post Office
Built in 1930, Provincetown’s U.S. Post Office is a bustling place, but not many know that the second floor is rented out by artists. A plaque at the top of […]
METALWORK
Turning Sheets of Metal Into Schools of Fish
For Steve Swain, one man’s junk is another’s ‘inventory’
The last oyster shack in Wellfleet was boarded up for around 50 years when metalworker and builder Steve Swain finished designing the Pearl restaurant across from the marina. Captain Higgins, […]
